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years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving children/*Bill of Exceptions FiledAttorney General Carlstrom, upon whose opinion the gangster was returned to the penitentiary in 1930, was represented in court when the judge gave his opinion by two assistants, John J♦ Neiger and John F. Madden. . From the latter two came a radtion {taking tfiat opportunity be granted to file a bill of exceptions in order that tne case again be heard by the supreme court. The motion was entertained and sixty days given in which to prepare and file the bill.Sammons is wanted by law officials of Maryland for his allegedparticipation in- a- robberyin Baltimore, according to Associated Press dispatches, which say the gangster and a confederate _ committed an $80;000 pay roll robbery from the plant of a major clothing - manufacturing firm in Baltimore. One of the participants is serving time for the robbery; rTn Ank Rnnreme Court Mandamusrlt;tiat(schs\11hQr8tVtVt)I8ra8ilt;3I8rrttJudge John A. Swanson, state’s attorney of Cook county, has announced he will ask the Illinois supreme court to mandamus Judge Shurtieff, ordering the latter to expunge -the order which released Sammons. The appeal of the state will be based upon the argument tbat Judge Shurtieff had no jurisdiction in the Sammons case and that the supreme court had previously acted upon it.Judge Shurtieff says that he has received SeWal letters attacking him for handmg down the decision. “But they all tab out of Ink before they finished and didn’t sign their names,” the judge daid, indicating plainly that he wasn’t perturbed by the crank mail.The Associated Press, great news collecting organization, in covering the Sammons case and the oplnlop Of Judge Shurtieff, had the following to say:^Circuit Judge Edward D. Shurtieff virtually overruled ^he Illinois supreme court in setting free from -penitentiary—the—desperado!who was doomed to hang a generation ago.“Waving aside the prisoner’s reputation as killer, robber and hoodlum, Judge Shprtleff fiiled that Sammons* forthright release by the state board of pardons and paroles tn | -1926. twas-.final^and. iirrey.ocafele anu that the supreme court did not have the record of this action be-fbre lt# when 'the high court approved his recommitment to prison two -years ago.]
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Harvard Herald And Independent
Harvard, Illinois, US
Thu, Jul 21, 1932
Page 3
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