Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-22
Elk E:CUTlVE PARDONS-
PRESIDENT RESTORES F.. 8. COBURN
TO RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP.
George F. Jones Also Favored He
Was Convicted in This City In Many
-: Al. Cases Of Larceny.

President Mckinley has returned to the
Department OF Justice nineteen cases
placed before him for executive clemency.
OF this number he granted nine pardons
outright, COMMITTED the sentences of three
persons, denied five applications for par
don and granted three pardons to restore
civil rights, the latter being cases of men
who had served their sentences and de-
sired to have their citizenship restored.
The most interesting of the last two cases
is that Of F. 8. Coburn Of the District Of
Columbia. Coburn, it will be remembered.
was convicted on December %, 1898, in
the Supreme Court Of the District of CO.
lumbia for .embezzlement Of 81 200 while he
was In charge of a substation of the city
post office, and was sentenced to impris-
onment for one year and one day In the
Ohio penitentiary. He served his term in
full and was discharged October D, 1899
good time allowance having reduced his
sentence The petition for the restoration
of Coburns civil rights states that he has
been in business in Washington since his
discharge from prison, and number OF
business men of the city append afiidavits
saying that Coburn has conducted himself
in good and lawabiding manner.
Believed to he Irresponsible.
The President has granted a pardon to
George F. Jones of the District Of Column
bia. Jones was charged in the Police
Court of the District with committing ten
separate acts of larceny. pleaded guilty
and on April II, 1901, was sentenced to pay
a fine of $40 and in default to be impris-
oned for thirty days in the Jail in each
case, the sentences to be cumulative, a
total Imprisonment of 800 days. The judge
and district attorney recommended the par
don and gave as their opinion that Jones'
mind was affected by a fall that he sus-
toll fron hof "a theft
Prior to that time he had been for years
In the employ OF a book concern and was
honest and highly respected. The theft
was comparatively small. being for less
than $40. The Attorney General says that
the fracture of the skull that Jones re-
ceived by falling down a cellar in Balti-
more probably caused a arrangement Of his
mind.
C. W. Lewis, serving total sentence of
twenty-eight years in the Kings county
penitentiary, Is pardoned. Lewis pleaded
guilty In Tennessee upon fourteen indict-
ments to pension swfndling and was SEN
fenced to two years In each case. Lewis
was an ignorant old negro and has been
sufficiently punished.
Boys Mother Changed Her Mind.
w. r. Thomson, "a boy who was con-
victed in the eastern district Of Missouri
of passing $40 counterfeit silver certif-
cate and on November II. 1898. sentenced
to be imprisoned five years in the Missouri
penitentiary. is pardoned.
Michael Bar. who pleaded guilty on
April %. 1901, to embezzling $40 Of post
Office money order funds at Canton, Ohio,
and was sentenced to imprisonment for
two years in the Ohio penitentiary, il
pardoned. Bar was a clerk In the Canton
post Office and fully reimbursed the gov
eminent before he was indicted.
Other pardOns were as follows:
Samuel j. Campbell pleaded guilty June
8, 1891, to forging pension voucher and
sentenced to one year in the Tennessee
state prison. Campbell has served two years
in prison on another conviction in the same
case.
Jacob Jones. convicted in Florida of pass
Ing counterfeit coin and on April 4. 1880.
sentenced to three and a half years in the
Tennessee prison. Jones Is suffering from
consumption and IL not expected to live
long
Joe Sealey and s. II. Merchant, convicted
in the Indian territory Of horse stealing and
receiving stolen property. respectively.
Sentences Commuted.
The President has commutsd the follow
ing sentences:
jeff Wilson. convicted In Florida of re-
failing whisky without license and sem
fenced In November 1900. to eighteen
months in the Tennessee state prison. Will
son Is in bad health and his sentence Is
commuted to expire October l.
7. b. Parrish. convicted In the eastern
ana sentenced to pay a fine OF Sa0O and be
imprisoned three years In the Tennessee
state prison.
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