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Governor seeks law to prosecute parole grafters
Columbus February 13 Governor Donahey with Warden Thomas and state clemency board urged a new statute to prosecute people who take money from prisoners relatives promising to influence pardons. Report cites Mrs Winefred Morrison of Chicago who paid 700 dollars to a local woman claiming a politician would secure her son Edward Foley Morrison's release from a life term for second degree murder.
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Winefred Morrison
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