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PRISONER PERMITTED TO ATTEND OBSEQUIES OF'HIS FATHER.\A GUARD ACCOMPANIES HIMEdgar Bailey, Serving Life Sentence, Goes to La Porter—He Pays Expenses.Edgar Bailey, serving a lifesentence in tlie penitentiary, was • • « 9 % * ** _____today taken to La Porte, la., to be present at the funeral of his aged father who died there last nighti * •and left a request that his son might be permitted to attend the obsequies. He was placed in the custody of W. G. Cater ,a guard,who will be' with him constantly: . ' *and return him here following the, ; • ■ 1 •; ■ ; (funeral. Bailey will bear the ex-1 pens.es of the trip out of his own meagre sav.ings since he came here jearly in 1905. !. « • ‘ * . ’Much has been said in the newspapers about Bailey since he killed» I t i ' * ,a non-union hack driver in Kansas ••City in 1904, pending a hack-driv-.ers’ strike. Ferguson, the man lv■ ' killed, was a strike breaker. Sena-•. / \ - *• ' tor James A. Reed aided the prosecution and Bailey was sentenced toI . • , • , • , .fgbe hanged by the jury. Later, Gov-cm or Folk commuted this sentence y -to life imprisonment on the application of prominent labor leaders.ViVT-.jThe. State Federation of Labor, the* • V v'*' • 1 - ‘^iiational organization, Samuel Gom-|^ersand other noted, labor leaijers*£.-|«ave all sought set. various times to ;J*«cure Barley's parole. Thig was re-^fused by both Governors Folk andi^Hadley.i . . • ' 'i.-yr-'. ! • • * . ••
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Weekly Democrat Tribune
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Thu, Oct 29, 1914
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