Dp, Potti PartonwiThe state board of pardons has granted, a pardon to Dr Norris J Potts a convict ev\ log twenty yeare in the state penitentiary for the crime of mans laughter committed in Johnson county Dr Putts killed Boxcar Jack soo a notorious gambler at Kaycee in the spring of iy03 and was con vie led at Buffalo in October of that, year His petition for a pardon stas 9igned by a fatge number of persons including Judge Stotts who sentenced Boas Judge Stott* wrote a leaei to *3 the board of pardons in which he stated that he had formed the belief from the evidence introduced at the trial that Jackson was the aggros or iq the quarrel and that Put is fired in self defense'U I