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WHILE LI EUT.-GOV. McALESTER ENJOYS ANOTHER BRIEF SEASON OF POWER.REDUCES POPULATION OF PRISONEfforts to Free Big Batch of Convict#Ib Temporarily Blocked, How* ever by Secretary of State Ben Harrison.Oklahoma City. - While Gov. Oruce waft in Washington, attending \hv cul-ton eonf I'rcmr, Limit .■lt; Ic»v. M o AI ° ^ t«• r asfttinnal the oflire. hi his bi'it t roi^n of two days, hi* altnnpted a w hoi'-sale jiarilonin^ program and thereby provided material for the courts for Mime weeks (n cniiir.Hccords of thirty two panUins, paroles and ennniihlat iunft tfrnnirM by the lieutenant *'ov«'rnor are lyinK on a tlf'sk in the office nf Secretary of State Hen F. Harri.on. Thirty-two stalcimMita acknnwledninR receipt «»f orders from Lieutenant Governor Me-Alester direei Inn Secretary Harrison to attest the signatures on as many pardons and paroles wm*e indors'Mi 1V the latter with these, words: All of w hieh 1 refuse to do Secretary of Slate Harrison was besieged with pi eft ft from lawyers to attest the govornnr’R signature on par-dons, but told all that he would sign no pardons except those recommended by the pardon board since Governor (Tore's departure from the state.List of Lucky Ones,J A M KS A M M K11M A N. contii t ional pardon.NELSON 11 AW KIN'S, commutation of sentence.AY A LTI-;R FLOWERS, commutation of sentence.LINCOLN BURTON. unconditional pardon.J. ORLANDO MITCHELL, pardon.STANLEY HAKF.lt, parol®.S. S. STARK, commutation.ROBERT C. THOMPSON, paroleCHARLES OVERTON, conditional pardon,JOE PROCTOR, conditional pardon, FRED CAMERON commutation.’’V T. CARLE, two parde.r-,.FRANK COAVLEY. pardon.JAMES HORBS, commutation.NED MrDANlEL. pardon.AY ALTER FACOETT, pardon.ACE RAY. parole.ROY JAMES, pardon.JAMES HOPBS parole.J. C. HAMPTON, ommutation. ROBERT DAVIS, pardon.ROBERT WATSON, commutation. ROY PAULK, pardon.ARTHUR niX, conditional pardon. JONAS JONES, pardon.C. A. STEWARD, pardon.MONT D PERKINS, pardon.ROY PEEL, pardon.F D. TACrC. A RT. pardon.SAM STEWART, pardon.(IKORliE WANTLAND. pardon.A number of the orders for execm tive clemency have been presented to prison olPcialH at McAlester, but War* den Dick refused to honor any except those bearing the signature of Secretary of State Ben F. Harrison. Only three prisoners have been released. They are: Charles Jaggers, Pittsburg county, serving life sentence for murder. paroled; Tayloi* Kirk, Canadian county, life sentence, murder, paroled; Mike Zanone. Pittsburg county, forty years, manslaughter, pardoned.A number of the prisoners were prominent. Joe Proctor Is the king of the Oklahoma couni.v gamblers; Nelson Hawkins was serving forty years for murdering a twelve--year-old Indian gir'; was chargedwith heavy theft of state funds when the capital was moved to Oklahoma City.Mandamus Dropped.
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Haskell News
Haskell, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Oct 08, 1914
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