The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-15
ROBERT HILL REPR|EVED
Delegation of Ladies Sue
cessfully Intercede for
Him With the Gov
ernOr.

Especial to sThe Jersey City News.1
TRENTON, JAN 15, 19o1.-There was a
very lachrymose scene in the Governors $
Office last evening A number of tender
hearted women, led by Mrs. William
Theegan, who is a sort of "Tombs
Angel" of Camden, called upon the Gov
ernor and requested him to commute to
Imprisonment for life the sentence of
Robert HILL of that place, who was to
have been hanged today for shooting his
wife. Mrs. Theegan made strong plea
for clemency. She showed how Hill and
his wife were of a lower order of beings
and how Hill was provoked to commit
the crime by his wife's misconduct. AS
Mrs. Theegan proceeded with her plea
tears came into her eyes and she wept
copiously Her fellow members of the
delegation mingled their tears with those
of their chairman, and for a while things
were rather doleful.
The Governor explained that he had no
power to commute sentences, that being
a prerogative of the Court of Pardons.
He said that he would, however, grant
Hill reprieve to February Z, so that the
ladies could bring the matter before the
Court of Pardons, which would meet on
January 26. The women thanked the
Governor profusely and withdrew. This
action of the Governor caused some sur
prise, as he has repeatedly declared that
he would not interfere in the matter.
The Governor was tho recipient of a
curious telegram last night from daily
newspaper in Cincinnati. It asked that
if the Ohio authorities should refuse to
allow Jim Jeffries ard Gus Rubin to
pound each other in Akron for
the heavyweight championship, would
New Jersey have any objections to hav-
ing the mill pulled off in this State for
a limited number of rounds.
The Governor of course, paid no atten-
ton to the telegram and considered it
beneath the dignity of the Chief Execu-
tive of the sovereign commonwealth of
New Jersey. 1t is safe to say that Rubin
and Jeffries will not disfigure each others
ceuntenances in New Jersey.
The freak section of the Legislature,
which has heretofore been monopolized
by Benjamin s. Gratz, the Jobstown
statesman, who announces himself as a
candidate for United States Senator
against William j. Sewell, was increased
last evening by the the arrival of Samuel
Warwick, of Salem County. Warwick
was recently released from State prison
after serving a term for forgery. While
in prison his mother died, leaving him
some property, and upon his release he
brought suit against County Clerk Ridge
way of Salem, claiming that he had funds
belonging to him. He also charged that
because of the treatment he received
while in prison he lost his voice.
He evidently has found his voice again,
judging from the stentorian tones in
which he denounced several deputies
from the prison whom he met in the cor
ridor He was at the State House look
ing after bill he wants to have passed
which will force the tax authorities of
Salem County to pay him a sum equiva-
lent to the sum levied against some prop
erty of his as taxes and for which the
property was sold. He also spoke inco-
herently about a bill which he is going
to push through providing for the aboli-
tion of the State Prison.