The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-07-06
They ALL WANT PARD0NS
Nine Prisoners at Deer Lodge Make
Application for Executive
Clemency.
One Wants Permission to Let
His Hair and Whiskers
Grow.
Sentences which VIII Soon Expire and
the Corvicts Want Their Civil
Rights Restored.

Nine applications were received AZ TINT
executive office yesterday from convicts a,
Deer Lodge asking for executive clemenov'
Most of them want to be restored TO citi.
zenship as their sentences will soon expire.
One of the applicants 10 serving u Nfe sen
tence and makes a piteous appeal Tor pnr-
don. He Ia n Chinaman who was convicted
Of murder in the second degree eleven
years ago in Deer Lodge county. lie wfites
his own application to the governor Ia q
plain handw! ting nnd fair English and
signs himself "Ah Wing No. l." He says
he acted in self-defense. having killed an
other Chinaman who was larger than he
and who would have severely hurt or mur-
dered him If he had not shot him. An
Wing states thar when he was tried no
could not speak q word of English and did
not understand the proceedings.
Judge Galbrnith. who sentenced
him he aays ia ready to help him and will
sign a petition asking the governor to grant
executive clemenoy. An Wing declares II
he ia patdoned that he will leave Montana
and 90 to live with has brother at Port
Gamble, Wash. He concludes his applioa-
tion by sayings: 'Please give me one more
CAduCo. nv ls As ~"
remembered by q number OF Helena peo-
ple, makes what seems q novel request. All
that he nsks ia permission to let ms nalf
and beard grow. He was convicted OF forge'y
In Helena several years ago and his SEN
tence will expire next September, and no
wants to leave the p%enitentiary with whisk-
srs and his hair looking about the same as
when he went in. The doctor tells the
governor In his application that if the per-
mission he asks for is granted 1t will en-
able him to appear among his friends ana
acQuRirtances who would sinus be able TO
recognize him and that 1t would assist him
professionally. Accompanying the doctors
application is q note from the warden of
the penitentiaty saying that when his tirne
expires officers will be at Deer Lodge from
New York to take him back there to be
tried for forgery.
Michael Fitzgerald has been in the reni-
tentiary for four years and ten months. de
says he has been taught a great lesson. lie
killed a colored man in Choteau county.
Fitzgerald says the man was after him for
three DAYS and that he did all he could to
GET out of his way, that he backed away
eighteen fest. bat the colored man kept
coming. Fitzgerald says he was always
very we'll liked when on the outside and
had a good many frienus. and that the only
fayors he has ever received we're n few
sheets of writing paper from the warden,
which he now no longer gets. John J.
Donnelly. of Fort Benton, and Sheriff A. Is.
Hamilton, of Teton county, have interested
themselves in Fitzgerald's behalf.
The only request Frank Brady has TO
make is TINT the five months he served In
jail at Butte be credited on his time at
Deer Lodge. He was convicted Of grand
larceny and sentenced for one year. Son
tence was delayed for five months.
The other cases are as follows and in
every case the applicants fail to mention
the offences of which they were convicted:
w. w. Jones, convicted Nov. 8. 1889, in
Beayerhead county, sentence i've years. OK
pires July 8. 1898; Charles Smith, convicted
Nov. 2. 1891. in Park county, sentence two
years. expires Aug. z, 1898; John Mcdowell.
convicted sept. ~, 1892. in Beaverhead
county. sentence one year, expires Aug. q,
1888; l.. II. Mcdonald, convicted Feb. IL.
1891, in Choteau county. sentence three
years, expires Aug. ID, 1898; Il. W. Wolf,
convicted New. IL, 1891, III Lewis ana
Clarke county. sentence wo years, expires
Aug. II. 1898.