Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-10
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
PARDONED SLOGGERS.
Colonel TObin in New Kole-champion

Colonel Tobin in New Role-Champion
of the Prize Ring.
A reporter of the RECORD UNION stepped
into the Governors Office yesterday, and
discovered the athletic Executive Secretary
boxing, for shipment, his Indian clubs,
dumb-bells, foils and boxing gloves. When
Harry was asked what was up, he replied,
tossing a bound volume of the rules of
the prize ring into the box: :" have no
further use for them. | have been knocked
out in one round by the Colonel. Just look
at that, pointing to an open book that lay
upon his desk. An inspection of the vol
ume disclosed the fact that it was the
book of Executive pardons, and there
in was written the pardons of two
local celebrities that were sent to
the State Prison for giving sparring exhi-
bition in the city of Oakland, Martin Cos
tello and Thomas Cleary. Further investi-
CATION developed the fact that Colonel
Tobin, the Governors private secretary
had been instrumental in securing the
pardons, and golden opportunity to make
himself solid with the "profesa'' had been
lost to the executive secretary Colonel
Tobin was found in the next room.
wreathed in smiles. He had not felt so
that it was ascertained for fact that Bart
lett was elected Governor, and that his an
polntment to the position of Adiutant-
General was thus assured. When asked if
he did it, he smilingly replied Yes. sir:
with my little Ratchet, did it, He said
1t was an outrage upon humanity and
common decency 10 make conYicts OF "our
boys" because they gave exhibitions in the
manly art" when such sloggers as Burke.
Dempsey and Sullivan are licensed TO do
the same thing. The Governor said he
thought the punishment entirely too Sc
we're, and 1t was such a plain case that he
had departed from his usual custom of sub
hitting the petition to the Board of State
Prison Directors, and had done what he
considered his simple duty in the premises.
The petition asking for their pardon sets
forth the following facts They were con-
Victed under Section 412 of the Penal Code
of this State before the Hon. w. E. Greene.
Judge of the Superior Court of Alameda
county, and jury, on the 18th day of No
vember, 1886, and sentenced, Costello to six
weeks imprisonment in the State Prison at
San Quentin, and Cleary to three months
in the State Prison at Folsom. The pc
titioners held that they were guilty of no
crime against the peace and dignity of the
State; that the acts of which they are con-
victed should not have been made felony
for the first offense by the Legislature of
this State; that their conviction is the first
ever had for the character of crime charged
against them in this State that the same
acts with which they are charged as a
felony are licensed to others TO commit
that they are both young men, and the acts
charged against them are the first infringe
ment or charge against them for violation
of any of the penal laws of the State, and
prior to the said conviction they bore good
characters for peace and quiet in the yicini-
ties in which they resided.
The signatures to the petition were the
leading men and business firms of San
Francisco. headed by James G. Fair.