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PRAY FOR DOOMED MAN PITTSBURGH Pa Nov 4 An appeal has been made to Governor Earle by fellow prisoners of William McKinley JBlackwell 40yearold murderer under sentence to death on November 7 At the regular Wednesday night service convicts In the Allegheny County jail knelt in prayer that Blackwells life might be spared Then 468 of them signed a petition asking the gover ¬ nor for a commutation of the death sen ¬ tence