Forty-seven minutes before the time set for their execution, Alexander Mackay, a British subject, and George Kristy were given 30-day re-brieves by the Governor of California, Mr, Frank W. Merriam, Both. re San Quentin Penitentiary convicts and have been sentenced to dearn for participation in a prison break last. yet On the request of the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, and the urgent Fequest of the British Government, I am reprieving Mackay and am extending a similar reprieve to Kristy," the Governor declared. It was the second time that the execution of the two men had been postponed.
The Governor said that Mr. Bult had telegraphed him, asking for the reprieve in order to permit Great] Britain an opportunity to "pursue any possible course open to it in behalf of its national."
Mackay was originally serving 9 term for robbery. Ho was later sentenced to death for attempting escape from prison, During this attempt, a prison warden was kidnapped—United Press.
San Quentin, Apr. 24.
Mackay was told of his reprieve! by Warden Court Ssith, of the penitentiary. "His face ell when he heard the news." the warden said: "and he gasped, My God, I wish T could have gone through with it now while I'm ready, instead of Wailing thirty days! "—United Press.
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