The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-12
"sPECK" WHITE MUST STAY,
BOARD DOES NOT LIKE THE IDEA
OF SETTING HIM AT
LIBERTY.
FIRST WOMAN PLEADS IN VAIN.
Board Denies the First Application
for Pardon for a Member
of the Weaker Sex.

the Minnesota state board is exercis-
ing a distinctly bullish influence on
| the present market Yesterday this
tribunal of appeal was as stern and un-
bending almost as the laws of the
Medes and Persians.
They turned a deaf ear on the ap-
PEAL of Joe White, sent up for the muir
| der of j. r. Harris, in Minneapolis,
and even denied Fred M. Douglass, the
Minneapolis State bank robber, permis-
sion to go out of the state, where he is
now on parole.
| The only self-evident mercy they eN-
tended in any case of moment was in
| the communication of the sentence of
| Richard Kennedy, who shot and killed
Joe Hoy in Minneapolis a few years
ago, from fifteen to ten years. This
will permit the board of prison man
ayers to parole Kennedy at the expira-
| ton of five years of his sentence, which
will be in October of next year.
Kennedys father and brother, Rev.
Father O'Reilly, of st. Anthony church,
Minneapolis; Detective James Howard,
of Minneapolis; ex-County Attorney
| Kennedy case was called. Mr.. Nye
| claimed that he did not come before
the board as attorney for Kennedy, or
his family, but, as prosecutor in the
case, he would recommend such COM
mutat ton as would permit the paroiing
| of Kennedy. He did not believe that
Kennedy's relatives would urge an
absolute pardon. The parole would
| keep hanging over his head an incen-
| tive to abstain from liquor, which had
| been the cause of his downfall.
| The supposition that Kennedy had
gone home for revolver was stick
| ler for Justice Start and Attorney Cen
eral Childs, which was hard to over
come, as it seemed to indicate premedi-
| tation Mr.. Nye explained, however,
| that this had only been shown by the
| testimony of one Brady, who seemed to
| be not only officious but malicious, and
| while it had been the theory of the
state that Kennedy had gone home, it
was not established conclusively.
| Kennedy's family had not denied it,
| but at the hearing yesterday his BROTH
| er declared they could not testify
| whether he had come home or not. He
| had, however been going hunting with
| Hoy and might have nd the revolver
| with him as he had testified. Warden
| Wolfer stated that Kennedy's conduct
| in the prison has been exemplary, and
| Gov Clough said he knew the Ken
| nedys and knew the story of the crime.
The board after it had gone into ex-
ivy in
arriving at the communication of SEN
! tence.
Joe White, also charged with muir
| der, however, Jared less happily. Rob
| ert L. Penney, who defended him, and
who recently secured from Philip Rice
| and another prisoner at Saltwater
named Rogan affidavits that Dugan
| had told them that White was not the
| murderer of Harris, pleaded for the
| pardon, insisting on the innocence of
his client. He gave graphic descrip-
| tion of the confronting of Dugan with
| White last Wednesday, when White
| angrily demanded of Dugan to know
| why he did not clear him of q charge
he knew he was innocent of, and told
how Dugan merely asked the guards
| to take him back. Penney laid great
| stress on the somewhat uncertain
character of the testimony as to
| Whites Identification by Mrs. Harris,
and also declared that, when Dugan,
| after returning to the room occupied
| by Belle Brennan and Feely after the
explained it on the story that he and
| Johnstown had been doing a job on
| the other side of the river, and John
| town had shot the man in a fight.
But, while Mr.. Penney was
pleading, the governor impatiently-
| toyed with paper weight on his desk,
| and, while the other members inter
| posed a question now and then, the
| queries were not such as to give the
Minneapolis advocate any encourage
ment.
! The request of William Raleigh, sent
up for highway robbery during the
1896 encampment of the G. A R., was
| denied, as were also the appeals of Pc
ter DENIAL and Edwin Clark, Pope
| county robbers.
E. E. Corliss, of the state capitol
commission, appeared in behalf of
! Harry Baldwin, who is now on parole
and is working for Capt. Cole, near
Fergus Falls. The board, however. OBJ
| jected to interfering with paroled pris-
oners, and decided to lay the case over
until the prison board could act.
The application Of James Brown,
sent to the reformatory from Henne-
that his release should be by parole Of
! the reformatory board, if at all
w. j. Jamlson, sent up from Mime
| apolis for stealing a bicycle, was par
| doned, it appearing that there was
some doubt as to his guilt He claims
he is innocent. On recommendation of
the reformatory board, similar disposi
ton was made of the case of Alfred
Bedore, sent up from Wright county
| for larceny.
But John Depew, sent up from Ram
| sey county for assault in 1894: the
| Brainerd Chinese, sent up in 1898 for
murder; Samuel Cody, the Dululh for
ger, and William Morrison, the Hous-
ton county highwayman, all suffered
! denials.
! Otto Lundeen, a murderer sent from
Kanabec county to Saltwater for life,
wanted communication, but his plea
was combatted by County Attorney
| J. c. Pope, the prosecutor there.
William Foster, sent to the reforma-
| tory from st. Paul nearly two years
| ago for larceny, was also pardoned on
recommendation of the reformatory
board.
William Pickett, another ST. Paul
robber, will languish still, the board
not liking his plea.
| Ex-senator Buckman, of Little
Falls, appeared in behalf of Clark
Shea, given a two years sentence for
| forgery in December last. He thought
Shea had been sufficiently punished,
| and he had a family depending on
| him. The board, however, thought two
years a very light sentence for for
| gerry, and decided to let Shea stick it
| out.
| Albert Alderman, sent to the reform
| atory in 1895 for robbing Novotny' S
| gun store, was pardoned on recon-
mendation Of the reformatory board
| The application of Patrick Regan,