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MARSHALL' . ANNOUNCES: . ON I PARDON ' AND TWENTV-FlVE PAROLES.(Cy United Pre** Association.).. Indianapolis, • December -L—Om j fiard np n lid t wen f y-fi v c pa rules, vt rItually Christmas gifts, wars anrncnncfcd today by Governor Thomai I El.’ .Marshall, to rake effect immecl I a rely.i *; Three nuirdsivrs and one mnii-! alixup.liter were ill the list of paroled ’John _Mets!ie:\ sentenced from Indianapolis November 7; 101.0. for oik 10 eight years for petit larecay, a . mere boy, received ;be lone pardon. He leaves the penitentiary for a Canadian. college; having been provided with funds by relath es and friends. [■The president of Notre- Dame univers-| itv suggested sending young Metsker I to college.The state board of pardons only lecom mended eleven no mors for paroles to tho governor, out of the largest list of applications over considered by the beard. Fourteen parole* were granted on l lie recarnmendaiicii of Superintendent D. C. Peyton uf the [ndiana reformatory.: The pardon board's paroles included:Gus Williams, Marion county, Dfe, murder.. ;■James Master son,- Clark county, life, murder.Harrison ' Jnekson, Van dor burgcounty Mile, murder. ;' ; i%Albert Lance. Pike county, two to 1 _ fourteen.’ years, assault, intent'' kill. James \Y\ Hensley, Hamilton county. two to twenty-one years, man-: slaughter.( Fred Wchlgcmntli, Howard county, 'one to fourteen, years, house-breaking, j Clarence Love joy, Tippecanoe couix-: ly. two to fourteen 3’Oars, robbery.= Cahrles Henderson. Decatur county, two to fourteen years, house-breaM-Ing. ' .William Ruplcy, Grant -county, one , to fourteen years, grand larceny. . Leslie Barren, Montgomeiy. county,one Lo eight,year*, pexit larceny. jArthur Johnson, Marion ccnnty, one to eight years, petit larceny.The paroles granted on ; recom- -mendaliou of superintendent Peyton were: •Harrison Caimciay,' Floyd county, ten to twenty years, burglary. jHarry Simmons. Floyd county, Iqh • to twenty yeury, buglary.Charles Mucker., Floyd county, tento. twenty years,, burglary. ....• William Parsons, Decatur county,petit' larceny. '• . I' John. Gv Caldwell and . Thomas J. • Brooke of Gary, ..conspiracy and grand i larceny; boys convicted of. robbery against the. United - States Steel corporation. •;Van Derry, Marion county, grandlarceny.• Emery. Anderson. Marshall con m y. burglary.Jeff Winegar, Jackson county, robbery. •Mil Zolman, Fulton counLy. luglary.Emery Hay, Fountain county, ' bur-jgiary. :j James Crawford, • Wayne county,| burglary, 'Allen Jones, Tippecanoe county, petit larceny. -Of the murderers, none paroled were in famous cases. Masterson killed his wife, a bad character, rollow-jing a quarrel over his attempts to. get ^I her to reform. Harrison Jackson and. !Gus Williams are both colored. They• were the oldest prisoners in point of!.incarceration ’.in thestale prison.• Jaciisoa killed a mail'on the 'Jaspercounty'-jail stone,= iiie, ;Tand Williams' killed a man nnra* saloon brawl.. , James Hensley,, the Hamilton county man slaughterer, killed Walker Mc-Clinteck and his son Enoch, after -the. two . had thrown him to the ground j and. • were beating him ' wltlistove- j wood, vTlie .fight started, over Hens-lev’s expressed determination to. mix *.up in a -coming divorce suit, ..Superintendent : Peyton gave .some of :the paroled men splendid characters.; Harrison Canady. • the Floyd county, boy sent up for burglary, has been a faithful servant,” declared Dr..Peyton:. -VVe; nave, gone away; and■left him in charge or tn. nouse many, j times,', and L nave never had a moe ■ faithful or more honest person aboutmy home.” •. .. . .. • .Charles-', Mucker.. 'another.- ' Floyd cdimty prisoner, , is tubercular. ^Splendid' opportunities are new' ogereiF John;:%:Caldwell and Thomasj .1. Brooke,” said Dr.. Peytoh of ; the.I two Gary hoys sent yap for’.-.grandJ larceny -from-the steel corporation.{Brooke lias heea._aa assistant in the• chief clerk's .office at the prison and Caldwell has. been employed as a chuufleur by.-the;'superintendent.''Both, may be trusted any where and under, ah circumstances,;’ the recciui-auenualionS: for their paroles declared-
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Logansport Weekly Reporter

Logansport, Indiana, US

Fri, Dec 27, 1912

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