The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-12-20
LIQUOR SELLERS FREE.
Board Of Pardons Sets Thir-
ty-one Men at
Liberty.
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TRENTON, Dec. 20, 1900.-Out of up
wards of $50 applicants for liberty, the
Board of Pardons yesterday granted thir-
ty-one pardons and paroles. 1t is the GUS
tom of the board to dispose of all pending
applications just before the holiday sea-
son, in order that those who are to be
given their freedom can spend the festive
period with their friends.
Paroles were granted to two Of the
liquor dealers convicted of selling ON Sum
day, in Camden, last July. They are
John H. Jones, who was sentenced to one
year, and who is paroled on the recon-
mendation of the county judge and prose-
cutor, and William Convery, whose fine Of
$3.50 is virtually remitted by the parole, he
already having served the six months III
jail, to which he was sentenced.
Barney O'Neill, the Philadelphia cab
| man, whose case has attracted such wide
spread attention, is among the number,
but was refused liberty, and he will again
have his carol attuned to the cadence of
| the lock-step and his Christmas dinner
prison cooked.
1t is doubtful if any prisoner has ever
brought so much pressure to bear on the
pardons board, but there is arrayed
against him just as weighty an influence
more weighty, in fact, for despite the rec
concentrations of the jury that convicted
him and the judge who sentenced him,
he remains behind the bars.
He was given fifteen years for an alleg-
ed assault on prominent Philadelphia cot
tagers at Somer's Point.
In the list of felons who were freed yes
terday were murderers and burglars, and
men convicted of almost all the various
kinds of crime against society. Nearly
all were paroled. however, so that they
will continue to be under the eye of the
law officers.
After years of protestation of his in
nocence, Prick Mulvihill, who was SEN
fenced to twenty years for second degree
murder from Hudson County in 1892, was
paroled
Herman Blazier. who was given ten
years about the same time. for man
slaughter, committed in Union County,
was pardoned, and thus restored to citi-
| zenship.
William O'Connor, convicted of high
way robbery in Passaic in 1897, and SEN
fenced to five years in prison, was par
doned.
John Faxon, of New York. who was
sentenced to fifteen years for breaking
and entering and having burglars tools,
the offence being committed in Hunterdon
| County, was paroled
| John Schott, who was sentenced to two
years from Morris County in June last,
on a charge of bigany, was paroled be-
cause of his being afflicted with an incur
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any time.
| Francis Smith, alias William Force, an
other Morris County prisoner. serving his
time for burglary. was pardoned because
| of his extreme illness.
| James O'Neill, a lad ofeighteen, sem
fenced to seven years from Passaic, in
1885, for carnal abuse, was paroled; as
was also Benjamin Brown. a 16 year old
| boy, sentenced from Essex county to five
years, in 1898, for assault and battery
with intent to kill.
John O'Connell of Morris who was SEN
fenced to ten years in 1896 on a burglary
charge, was pardoned on account of ILL
ness.
Others paroled with the date and ex-
tent of their respective sentences, togeth-
er with the place from which they were
sentncd, were:-Richard NJ. Riker, Som
erset, larceny, 1899, two years; Thomas
Kicker, Passaic, breaking and entering,
1898, five years; Philip S. Miller, Essex,
breaking and entering. 1885, five years;
Emeline Cooper, Warren atrocious as
sault and battery, 1899, three years;
Jason Campbell, Sussex, misdemeanor,
1900, two years; Ignatius G. Graemer,
Passaic, forgery. 1899, three years; Myer
Goldman, Essex, receiving stolen goods.
| 1900, three and half years; Louis Felt
man, Monmouth, burglary, 1899 four
years; Henry M. Jones, Monmouth, for
gerry 1900, two years; George Levant,
Union, larceny, 1900, eighteen months;
Washington Ketline, Camden, lottery,
1899, eighteen months; Anthony Schneu-
bel, Essex, forgery, one year; Michael
Lehr, forgery, 1899, three years.
Fines were remitted in the cases of
John Eskew and Charles Bendel, both of
Mercer county, and each of whom has
served his sentence The fine of William
Oliver of Hudson County, who served a
sentence on a chakge of sodomy was also
remitted.
John w. Murphy of Burlington, who
served two years in the State Prison for
embezzlement, was restored to citizEe-
ship.