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proved his recommitment to prison two 'years ago.- , Sentenced to Die In 1903' “Sammons was one* of the *bad men’ .Chicago determined to evict in the anti-gangster furore that reached Its^HmaX^nThe11930 elec* tion campaign. While . the govern-' ment was attacking the 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 -jp^^rantauagainst the \ twenty fore*the—stateo:tlaao;aUf]Pfi1records and found ‘Fur' Sammons a public peril that rinight' be --suppressed -in another - way. j^He had been sentenced to death in-1903 for thermurder of .a saioon-' keeper. Gov* Richard Tates Commuted the penalty to life^imprison-Small .short-^ed iariO 237 to ariSfty^year term; making possible his releasb bn parolb1 a* jnontb ’ later.' ^Fhen^ three - y earsarbje£ikard-gaYedlsdht^erT^r- “Jn'Jiis interim offreedom Sam-moh^bimrhimself uciT'i/#epUtt? ti6n^in-the-s^der?wM-.t^ ^^b^rtme^mxnis^Oh^awaid^'hlm* -i-ftl.plH^Alnmnntf ifo~. ‘public ^enemies* 1 kphrole boSSThelped 0Ut~Sy ^rasing ayha,aTO^^,Md:eent'b«wlc:tb prisonrcST^Tf^imloCir the-gates ”by~ the-habeas —corpns- method,- but -the supreme ^OTTrtrupb eld-theroiafe -ahd*ne'Btayed
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Harvard Herald And Independent

Harvard, Illinois, US

Thu, Jul 21, 1932

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