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EXPLAINS WHY HE' lai! yeth! 2:PAROLED FRENCHO lt;Judge Intimates that HaditththYVliHe Sat Upon Jurv He1 * \ mWould Not Have Found iplt;Conductor Guiltv iteRELEASED BECAUSE OF DAUGHTERaI C., sa » otUses Clemencv Not to Tar-|ei! wnisli the Life of Inno- I inrent Girl Savs theOpinionthbeIn delivering his opinion at the| m ! tiHarry French trial. Judge George d( Glementson at Lancaster yesterday ^ intimated that had he been a mem-'« Iher of the jury that sat in the trial othe would not have agreed to a ver- ladiet of guilty. *Paroled French.Harry French, a Burlington conductor residing at 1515 Kane street.inreciwas tried for the murder of Pat| |I Murphy, a tramp whom he was al-;Sti leged to have kicked from a moving h! train causing his death. Judge Clem-'I ! d! entson suspended sentence, placing jSli French under two year parole.| Continuing, Judge Clementson ai| summed up the case by saying: “The n public good does not demand that J ai Mr. French should be sentenced to|s* state prison. To do this would mar!11 his life and cloud the future of an , ^innocent girl. This would benefit no wirsione. It cannot justly be claimed thathis incarceration in the state prison * would be beneficial by example. {ti “The testimony was -hat the man ] oi who came down from the top of the; P car swung his foot around and a hit the man holding on in the head; that this man then took his feet out of the stirrup and hung by his 1lt; hands, with his feet dragging upon I the ground. Esser, a witness, says d that he hung thus for about twenty feet and then let go and fell.“It unfortunately happened that i when he fell his head struck a bolt i or spike that stood up in the end of I a tie. This bolt or spike penetrated1 the head just behind the ear and killed him. If he had hung on twoseconds longer or had jumped when I he was kicked, he would not have been killed. The act of the defendant amounted of itself to assault and battery only, but the unfortunate 11 result of it greatly increased the of- u fense.Srealrs of Daughter. P“Mr. Fren h is a man 45 years of n age, a widower for six years. He hns one child, a daughter 14 years old. He has been a railroad conduc- ‘ tor for eighteen years. His record as a railroad man is untarnished as aIcertificates of his superiors now inmy possession show. He has been a aresident of the city of La Crosse for n • many years and there have been presented to me testimonials from a number of prominent men of that i community showing that he is a Fgood citizen, honest, upright and of eclean conduct. j1“Therefore it is, by the court, p now satisfactorily found that Harry F R. French comes fully within the requirements of the probation statute and it is ordered that the judgment on the verdict in this case beIsuspended.” jt
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La Crosse Tribune
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Mar 13, 1914
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