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Innocent Prisoner ReleasedFINDS HIMSELF WEALTHY MANA convict in the Federal Prison at ■ Atlanta. Georgia, under a charge of murder, has been released, to Qnd | Jiimself a millionaire (says the Daily , Chronicle**). The prisoner was j ( Charner Tidwell, for whom Prwsld- I v ••nt* Roosevelt. Taft, and Wilson had , each rejected appeals for pardon, ft was the death bed confession of a j woman that brought about the convict’s liberation, with exoneration of • the crime.Tidwell is a half bred Cherokee Indian, who lived In Tallequab. Okln-homa. He was only 17 when a neigh- j b«*r. whose husband, James Brown. I • bad been shot to death, accused the lad of the murder. She had been indicted Jointly with the Indian, but was acquitted on the testimony of ‘ her son. who swore that he had seen | Tidwell fire the shot. Tidwell den- | led all knowledge of the crime, and i ’ many witnesses substantiated his alibi. which was that on the day of the murder he was miles away. The jury, however, believed Mrs. Brown and her son. Was it to be wondered at that this innocent victim of what the Federal Depanment of Justice calls one of tho most remarkable and perhaps the most tragic case of its kind ever brought to its attention should at first have been furiously Intractable? Tho prison warders re ported that he growled and barked like a dog in his cell whenever they went near him. He waa handcuffed and put in solitary confinement on n diet of bread and water.But fate and the whirligig of time were working in his favor Two years ago Miss Alice Robertson, then ! member of Congress for Oklahoma. Interested herself In Tidwell's case. Several other women joined her.: They appealed on the man’s behalf to I President Harding, telling him there appeared to be circumstances connected with the prisoner’s conviction I which furnished grave elements of doubt Attorney-General Daugherty was. therefore, requested by the President to examine the records.At this Jnncture. by an extraordinary coincidence, the former Mra. Brown, who had wedded again and once more had been widowed, was ' stricken with a malady, and realised ' that she was dying. In a paroxysm of remorse she confessed to her two ' daughters that It was not Tidwell, but her lover, afterwards her second husband, who killed James Brown The daughters Informed the author ilieg. and the brother also confessed | that ho had been coerced by his j mother and her lover into perjuring 1 himself. He was arrested and lodg ' od In gaol, and President Hnrding. i on the Attomey-General's recoin-1 mondntion. set Charner Tidwell free.Meanwhile, during his Imprison menL Tidwell had Inherited oil landsof such value that now he finds him-I self the possessor of a fortune of 1 several million dollars.
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Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate
Dorrigo, New South Wales, AU
Sat, Jun 16, 1923
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