The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-09
OTHER PLEAS ARE DENIED.
Some Refused, and Others Are
Taken Under AdVisement

OhOcF f1uV1ScmCnt.
An application from Peter Shippman,
sentenced by the district court of lie
Sueur county in September, 1900, to paw
a fine of $50 and costs of $1O6.S5 for Grim
NAL libel, was denied. Mr. Shippman
was accused of causing to be printed in
the Farm, Stock and Home, published
by 5. M. Owen, at Minneapolis, state
ment to the effect that John Sheehy, CT
montgomery, had employed fraudulent
grain scales. He. was first found guilty
In the justice court and appealed to the
district court, and finally the supreme
court OF the state without being able to
secure relief The board refused to re-
verse the three courts.
charles Haupt, an attorney from Fer
gus Falls appeared on behalf of Charles
r. Hoffman, H. s. Minot, James c.. Hall
and Link Thayer, sentenced to nineteen
and one-half years each for tram rob-
berry committed on the Great Northern
road Nov. 8, $780, Former Sheriff Billings,
of Otter Tail county, who made the ar
rest, made a statement to the board in
which he declared that he was now con-
WINGED that the men in prison were all
innocent of theGerime with which tEey
were charged land that the real Offend
ers were three men known as Isl m
Gary and Frank Argyle, all of whom
| are now in jail -at st. Joseph Mo. Sem
ator DAILY, who was prosecuting attorney
at the time of the conviction of the men
now in the Saltwater prison, stated that
I. he had become convinced that they were
not the ones who committed the robbery.
Mr.. Haupt also produced written state
n1ents. to- show the probable guilt of TIE
men In jail at st. Joseph. The case was
taken under adVisement. ~@-r-t
Mrs Elsie Foss, of Mankato, who with
two other women, was sent to the pen
itertiary about a months ago. for nine
months on charge of shop-lifting, was
represented by Judge j. o. Andrews, CT
Mankato. The judge stated that tho
woman was but nineteen years of age
and had two children and crippled hus-
band who was unable to support the little
ones. The. case was not regularly before
the board, as the petition had only neen
filed Saturday, but Judge Andrews was
told that 1t would be taken up this ses-
sion If an adjourned meeting was held.
- The application of Edgar H. Heff1in,
sentenced from Hennepin county, Sept
f14y 1899, to the state prison. for five years
for indecent assault, was denied.
The case of Nick Christello, serving
life sentence for murderrin che first de-
gree, which the trial judge recommended
be committed to ten years, was taken
under adViSement. 4-iHps ssDn.f
The sentences of Burt and John Car
W
II, 1899, Of robbery in the first degree
were committed from eight years and
three months each to six years and three
months.
Application of Henry Jackson, serving
life sentence for murder in the first de-
gree, for communication of sentece was de-
MED Matthew Fay, serving three years
sentence from Itasca county, Tor passing
a forged check, was also refused par
don.
Application for a pardon was made on
behalf of Charles Raaen, sentenced from
this county May 10, 1899, for grand lar
ceny in the second degree, to eight years
He Is the young man who was convicted
of having robbed Michael Treacy, of the
flrm of Brown, Treacy & Co. His appli-
cation was denied.
In the case. of Claude Harrison, twen-
ty-one years of age, who was sentenced
from st. Louis county, Nov. q, 1900, to
the state reformatory for carnal knowl-
edge of female child, application for
pardon was made on the ground that the
young girl In the case, Violet Cameron,
was falsely represented at the trial to be
between the age of fourteen and fifteen
years, whereas she was in reality past
sixteen years and therefore under the
law the offense was not as charged. The
attorney in the case presented tran
scripts of testimony in other cases in
which testimony appeared as to the age
! or the girl and also other evidence to
show that she was more than sixteen
years of age. The case was taken under
AMUSEMENT. A number of other cases
were heard and taken under advisement.