The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-26
SECURES HER FATHERS PARDON.
Eighteen. Year.Oid t.iri's Enorts Releases
Joe Martin From . Life Sent ence.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 25.-Preeident Roose-
| welt to-day granted an unconditional pardon
10 Joe Martin. who was convicted OF murder
in the Indian Territory fourteen years ago.
Dora Martin, he eighteen -year-old daughter
Of the convicted man, has been in WASH
ington in her fathers behalf She left this
afternoon IN a happy frame Of mind. for
Columbus, Ohio. where the Martin family
lives.
Tier Efforts TO secure her fathers freedom
began last July, wi en- she left her home,
about one hundred miles west of Little
Rock, and went to Columbus. where her
father il imprisoned. The girl was only
: years old when her father began TO serve
hls sentence, and there was no recognition
when they met in prison Miss Martin
next went 10 indianapolis. where she Sc
cured from the District Attorney, who was
in the Indian Territory at the time Of her
iatiers trial, recommendation that the
prisoner be pardoned She then came
10 Washington
i never went to school in my life she
said 10 a reporter Yesterday. and we ha, Q
saved everything since | was little chic
10 get papa out Of Jail II m ma. my ssfe
bur Il Is all forgotten now that the pardon
is coming
Mar. il was convic, cd Of the murder OF
trnest Adams, the quarrtl growing out Of
a difficulty over the ownership Of water
tn~.on. Adams ~ ore he y ould Kill Matir,
and one day wel' TO Martins house for the
purpose. Martin was sitting on his porch
with two children IN his lar. one Of them be-
ing tn" sirl who is here seeking his pardon
Adams pointed a Winchester az Mart ins
head and announcing that he had come Ia
kill him, ordered his victim 70 walk away
from the house down a path. On the way
Adams's atten'i ion became dis racted ard
Martin seized the gun. 4 terrific struggle
ensued and the rife was discharged The last
-""'' e Adams he was running aw ay from he
&c, ne OF I ~ >iruggle. A body was later fou. a
IL ,..c Red River, bu' was never id .nified
a. that Of the missing man. Martin con-
tended in The first place that the body was
not that IF Adams. and, second. that. ever
II il was, the killing was in self iefencn
He was howe or. sen'en"ei T. b
han ,ed but President Harrison in Is Q COM
uI.ned the sentence 10 Imprisonment for
life In dong 50 Mr. Harrison exprcsst d
the opinion that the evidence was 100 cir
cCmstantlal in character. and that Martin
had, for all that the evidence showed to the
contrary, killed an aggres-or WHO had been
seeking his life. Attorney General Knox
said to-day that he Endorsed entirely this
view of President Harrison, and in view of
the % e term OF imprisonment which Mar
tin has served. he recommended to Presi-
dent Roosevelt that an unconditional par
dor be granted
The President to-day also pardoned
Charles Newoerry, Who was convicted IN
Virginia of resisting revenue officers ami
vas sentenced to Imprisonment for two
wears Ne"bCrrv was mere boy az the
time the one. Q was committed and the
President and ,n" Department Of Justice
believe that he has been sufficiently pun
i-.,ed h. will be- released from the peni-
Tertiary on April next.
Five other APP locations for pardon were
III each case