Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-06-16
STATE HOUSE..
Adiutant General Issues an Order
Regarding Recruits.
Governor and Council Meet Today -Four
Petitions for Pardon.

The Governor and Council will meet
this morning. at 10 o'clock. They have
a very large amount of routine bust
ness to transact. but very little special
business.
There is but one pardon hearing as
signed for today. and that is the petit
ton of Charles Bragdon now serving a
sentence in the State prison for the
crime of larceny.
The application is made by about
900 of the leading citizens of Freeport,
who represent that Bragdon was only
partially at blame for the larceny;
that he has Il respectable wife and two
children, who need his support; that
they believe he has served a sufficient
length of time.
There are three other applications
that will be assigned today, for a
hearing at some other time.
The three applications are those OF
Levi Frost, George H. Campbell and
Mary Cowan.
Levi Frost Of Bethel, is now serving
a years sentence in the Auburn Jail for
breaking and entering. and stealing
liquor The petitioners state that his
father has just died, and has left an
aged widow SO years old and the son is
needed to support the mother The
ha
pired by the time that the petition is
acted upon.
George H. Campbell. one of the men
who was convicted at the December
term Of the Kennebec superior court,
of robbery, asks that his sentence be
commuted. He was convicted with
one Charles A Sawyer Of brutally as
sanlting and robbng Moses c. Frost II
Winthrop. which at the time caused
such a horror in the State. On the
2rd day Of January 3. 1899, he was sem
tenced to be punished by imprisonment
and confinement at hard labor in the
State prison, for the term of his natur
al life.
He states that as a child he lacked
the care, sympathy and guidance of
mother, his mother having died when
he was two years of age; that he was
influenced by Sawyer. an older person.
to aid in the crime; that he believes
the punishment is excessively dispro-
portionate to the offence, and greater
than the presiding judge would have
imposed under the present laws.
He promises to do better, and prays
that the sentence be committed to 10
years from January 3, 1889, the date Of
his old sentence.
The third petitioner is Mary Cowan,
the woman convicted of murder in the
first degree at the February term OF
the Penobscot supreme court in 1895,
and was sentenced to life in the
state prison on February Is, 1896.
1t will be remembered that she was
convicted of poisoning her child Willie,
on the 10th of September, 1894.
Her health is said to be failing, and
as the physicians state she has an in
durable disease she asks to be allowed
to return to her home in DiXmont to
die.
\ new oak case of the same pattern
as The others in the State assessors
Office, has been placed in the office.
Adjutant General Richards has is
sued the following general orders re-
garding the recruiting stations recent
ly established in the State:
Adjutant Generals Office,
Augusta. June II. 1898.
General Orders No. 19
|. Recruiting stations are about to
be established in this State under the
provisions of General orders 40. 81,
G. S. Headquarters of the Army y. q.
O., to recruit the companies Of the
First Maine Volunteer infantry to 106
enlisted men per company, and the
battery of heavy artillery to 200 en-
listed men.
H. Company commanders of the
National Guard will not transfer any
ordnance, ordnance stores, clothing or
equipase should men enlist from their
companies in the L. s. Volunteers. nor
permit their men SO enlistlng to take
any military property with them.
III. As mon 50 enlisting join another
organization recruited from the Ma
tional Guard they will be discharged
from their original organizations. and
commanding officers will promptly for
ward applications for such discharges
with discharge papers duly filled up 10
this office for execution.
BY order of the commander-in-ch
JOHN T. RICHARDS.
4 Adjutant General
Major Atwood Spauldng of Caribou,
was at the aljutant generals ofilce'
"Wednesday. getting his belongings that
he left while he was on duty at the