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for their release without pay and jthat they owed it to those friends ,to make good/’ Allred said. “1 toldthem also they ought to make golt;xlfor the convicts who now are in the jpenitentiary; that any wrong-doingby them would make it harder forother convicts to get clemency. Ialso told them nothing would make me happier than to see them make good/'Conditional pardons were issued for the two men by Governor All-red after the state pardon board had recommended clemency over the dissenting opinion of Chairman Bruce Bryant. They had been con- j victed of robbing the Atlanta. Tex., bank on June 6, 1934. The same bank was robbed again in 1936 and Charlie Chapman, who was shot at that time, admitted that he and a companion had perpetrated the first robbery. Southerland and Mathis had been identified by three persons as the m n who committed the robbery. In issuing conditional pardon the governor said there was so much doubt that he was unwilling to make them slt; ve their sentences.Both Southerland and Mathis ] contended -hey were in Shreveport, La , at the time of the bank robbery. |
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Abilene Reporter News
Abilene, Texas, US
Tue, Nov 08, 1938
Page 11
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