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*State’s Attorney Cook County Asks Court3 to Mandamus Judge E. D. ShurtleffFreedom as a convict In the state penitentiary at Joliet was granted James “Fur Sammons, notorious gangster and murderer, following the opinion of Judge E. D. Shurtleff on a writ of habeas corpus presented the court by W. W. Smith and D. R. Joslvn. Sr., attorneys for the hoodlum, in circuit court at Woodstock, July 16.The court was filled when Judge Shurtleff ascended the bench to deliver his opinion, which covered 62 pages of typewritten space and con-sumed-one hour and' forty minutesin delivery. Three paragraphs contain the meat of the lengthy opinion. They follow:“It is the finding of this court that James Sammons was legally and lawfully paroled in 1923, upon both convictions, for robbery and murder,^ and that in 1926, he was, by the board of pardons and pa- Ia role, with the approval of the E governor, finally discharged upon I ^ both convictions.** A I*Issues Release Order ‘ U4'Irrespective of his final dls- jd charge his maximum time on par I. role so fixed by order of the paroie I J board, expired September 17, 1930, r4 on .both roittiml. ja44It Is the judgment of this ® court that James Sammons, be I and he Is hereby discharged and I that he go from the bar of this j court without 4elaV*M uThe judge commented on the pub* t lie clamor concerning the case. In this connection, he said. L“The court does not know t whether the relator Is a desperate * public enemy and whether his re- h lease would work harm to the c state. This I do not know and it U is not an issue in this case. 1“Neither does the court know 1 whether the relator is another Jean Valjean, who spent nineteen ( years in prison for stealing a loaf ’ of bread to feed his sister's starv- I1 ing children.** I ]
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Harvard Herald And Independent
Harvard, Illinois, US
Thu, Jul 21, 1932
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