Evening star., 1901-06-15

applications for pardon. He denied two
applications, granted one pardon to restore
civil rights, and granted pars1ons and COM
mutations in the following eight cases,
Isaac Warren Lewis, a thirteen-year- old
colored boy, in the southern district Of
Mississippi, convicted OF embezzlfng mail
matter while messenger, sentenced May
10, 1901 to pay fine OF $1OO and costs. hnd
to be imprisoned for one year In the Ten
nessee state prison. Execution Of sentence
suspended pending, his application for par
don. The President pardoned him on the
recommendation of the district attorney
and Judge. The Attorney General. in his
Endorsement, said: 1.-THE petitioner was a
thirteen-year-old child at the time Of his
alleged offense. and should not have been
prosecuted -
Richard Young pleaded guilty In the
southern district of Iowa of passing coun-
terfeit money, and sentenced October 30
1899. to four years in, the penitentiary at
Anamosa. In recommending this pardon
the Attorney General says: This petition
er was without counsel, and was coerced
into entering plea of guilty. He was not
proved to be guilty, and should not have
been sentenced" He was pardoned
Wynn Bramble pleaded guilty to stealing
letters while mailing clerk In the post Of
flee at Decatur, ILL.,, and April "a, 1900, was
sentenced to two years in the southern IL
linois penitentiary. Pardoned on the ground
that he has been sufficiently punished and
because he is In very, poor health. The
ing attorney and the assistant attorney
general for the Post Office Department.
Charles Faudree, eastern district OF
Texas. convicted of manslaughter: com
mitted in the Indian territory, and May IS,
1899. sentenced to five years in the United
States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth.
Pardoned. The Attorney General, in re-
porting on this case, said: ''The fight
ly upon an assault made by the deceased
upon the wife and other members Of the
family Of the petitioner Deceased had also
made threats to kill the petitioner at sight.
The killing was done in the protection Of
the prisoners family and in defense of his
own life. 1 concur with the district attor-
ney and judge in recommending a pardon"
]. p. Greenwood, pleaded guilty to en-
bezzing post Office money order funds while
postmaster at Goldfeld, Col, sentenced
April 13, 1901, to pay fine of S643 39s and
Imprisonment for six months in Jail at Den
yer. The Attorney General recommended
pardon because it was clearly shown that
there was no intention the part of the
prisoner to defraud the government. The
post office funds became mingled with
funds of the prisoners private business,
and when the post office inspector called
his attention to the shortage he immedi-
ately made it good. He was pardoned
o. D. Bray, convicted in the central dis
tr1ct of the Indian territory of receiving
stolen property, and on December 81 1898,
was sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary. His sentence commuted on the rec
ommendation Of the district attorney and
judge, and because he has tuberculosis
John Stuckey, tr., western district Of Ar
kansas. sentenced December 8, 1S99 to four
years in the Leavenworth penit tentiary for
Illicit distlling The sentence commuted to
expire October l, 1901. because the district
attorney and judge believe that he has.been
sufficiently punished, and because his health
is very poor.
W. Williams, convicted in southern dis
trict of Indian territory of the larceny Of
wagon, and on October o. 1899, sentenced
to five years In the penitentiary. Sentence
commuted to expire August 1. 1901. on the
recommendation Of the district attorney and
trial Judge because the prisoner pleaded
guilty with the honest belief that he would
receive a two years sentence.