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COURT RELEASES ‘PUBUCJNEMY’Simmons, Chicago Murderer and Gangster, Escapes Prison Again.By the Associated Press.WOODSTOCK, HI.. July 16—James Fur Sammons, murderer, gangster | and public enemy of Chicago, has beaten prison once more.Circuit Judge Edward D. ShnrtlefT virtually overruled the State SupremeCourt today in setting free from Joliet Penitentiary the desperado who was j doomed to hang a generation ago.Waving aside the prisoner's reputation as killer, robber and hoodlum. Judge Shurtleff ruled that Sammons’forthright release by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles in 1926 was final and irrevocable and that the Supreme Court did not have the record of this action before it when the high court approved his recommitment to prison two years ago.Known as Bad Man.**Sammons was one of the bad menChicago determined to evict in the antigangster furore that reached its cliir.ax in the 1930 election campaign. While the Government was attacking th? Capone hierarchy on the income tax and Mann act front, and Municipal Judge John H. Lyle was campaigning for mayor with a barrage of vagrancy warrants against the 23 foremost public enemies. the State looked over its records and found ''Fur Sammonsa public peril that might be suppressed in another way.Ho had boon sentenced to death in 1903 for the murder of a saloonkeeper Gov. Richard Yates commuted thepenalty to life imprisonment, which Gov. Len Small shortened in 1923 to a 50-year term, making possible his release on parole a month later. Thon.three years later, the State Parole Board gave Sammons his full discharge.Leader In L’nderworld.In his interim of freedom Sammons built himself such a reputation In the underworld that the Chicago Crime Commission awarded him a place among its public enemies posted for eradication. The State Parole Board helped out by erasing the previous paroles, and Sammons was arrested and sent back to prison on a fugitive warrant. He tried to unlock the gates bv the habeas corpus me mod, but the Supreme Court upheld the State and he stayed in Joliet Penitentiary until his counsel brought him into McHenrv County Circuit Court on a new habeas corpus petition, which Judge Shurtleff granted today.Bloom Gets Army Canvas.An Army officer’s conception of Gen. George Washington has been depicted on canvas by Capt. Thomas B. W’ood-burn. Maj. Gen. Stephen O. Fuqua, chief of infantry, exhibited the portrait to Representative Sol Bloom, vice chairman of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, and presented Mr. Bloom with several prints. Capt. Wood-burn is on duty in New York City.HeatHot WaterNow at the Lowett Pricet in 26 Y eartLouest term*. and price.* for 1m-ir.edjale Installation We U install a *-orr.pl'te r.e* plant or replace boiler. G*t our pricey NOW,Repair Work Also All Work Full*’ GuaranteedFurnaces Vacuum C leaned5!o'lfrnCleaning—b\ LkPf rtss3upPlumbingTinningHeating Dec. 2700 1405 V St. N.W
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Evening Star
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Sun, Jul 17, 1932
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