Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-17
ON TN YEARS. Trial
Wesley Elkins Will Be Given Full
Pardon Then Ii He Proves
Worthy.
He will Probably Be Given His
Liberty Next Saturday,
Future Plans.
Something About the Plans for
Other Convicts Who We're
Granted Pardons.
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Des Moines, April 17.-Gov. Cum
Minis this morning signed the parole
papers for Wesley Ell1ins and they
are to take effect on Saturday, wher
Elkins will leave the penitentiary. The
papers require that he shall become a
resident of Linn county and that h
shall not visit either Clayton county
or any of the adjoining counties
Professor Harlan will see that he is
taken into Cornell college for at least
a part of the time. The governor
announced that paroles will also be
issued Saturday for Otto Often. OF
Pocahontas county and John Ballew
of Fort Dodge. Ballew is to go to
Sioux City to live.
The governor will also act on the
other conditional pardons recommend
ed by the legislature next week, and
intends to sign up the paroles at that
time.
On leaving the penitentiary, Wesley
Elkins will be taken charge of by Pro-
lessor Harlan of Cornell college. He
will be placed under stringent restric-
tons by the terms of the conditional
pardon. The provisions of the resolu-
ton passed by the senate are that if
after ten years of liberty Ellsins has
conducted himself as he should. he will
then be given full pardon. Additional
terms required by the governor will be
that he shall not allow himself to be
placed on public exhibition. that he viii,
make regular reports to the governor
he is in school or at some en-
ployment, and that he will not return
to Clayton county, the county where at
Ii years of age he murdered his father
and stepmother. Professor Harlan will
school at Mt. Vernon for a time. While
the restrictions imposed by the COVER
nor will be more rigid than those on
other persons paroled. the young man
is ready to bear them and has written
q letter that he is willing to live up to
any terms the parole may contain.
OTHER CASES.
In nearly all the cases passed upon.
the house pardons committee made
to the governor en-
tirely distinct from the concurrent
passed. These are merely
suggestive and are submitted for the
consideration, but will be
followed. 1t is recommended Theodore
Bushwick of Mills county be sent to
Hayti. where he was born, and where
his brother and other relatives live. He
has never been citizen of this coun-
try and his friends in Hayti are anxious
to have him return. He has no money
and it will require s125 or whereabouts
to make the trip. No steps have yet
been taken to raise the money, but eff
forts will probably be put forth in
short time to raise a subscription fund.
Bushwick is now 81 years old.
The house committee recommended
that George Stanley of Story county,
who has been at Fort Madison since
1870, be allowed to go to Maine, where
his brother and sister are anxious to
man nearly 20. He will doubtless be
allowed to leave the state as desired.
The w. c. T. U. of the state will give
him all needed assistance.
Joseph Creary of Fort Madison, for
merly of Mills county, has earned S1.S00
since he has been in prison. He has
$1,000 left, after paying for all the work
lone in trying tosecure his release. The
committee has recommended that a
guardian be appointed under bond to
ook after his money and see to it that
ne makes judicious use of 1t.
The house committee recommended
IN the case of William Young, the col
pred bootblack of Sioux City, that he be
9. w. Jackson will take care of him.
The governor will doubtless permit this
md will also follow the recommends
ion of the house pardons committee
hat John Ballew of Fort Dodge be al
owed to go to Sioux City Woodbury.
in order to avoid his old assoc
,iates at Fort Dodge. Otto Often will
De placed under the usual restrictions,
10 especial privileges having been ask
I'd in his case. He is good mechanic
md is In position to take care of him
self.
The transcript OF the evidence in the
case of the State VS. Harry Hortman
'eached the Office of the governor yes
.erday. The law requires transcript
If the evidence to be filed with the
governor in cases where the death pen
llty has been imposed Hortman on
November 80, 1901, shot and killed his
sweetheart Florence Porter, at Chero-
zee. He pleaded guilty to homicide as
.harged in the indictment and the ties.
imony was taken in the case before
Judge Wakefield, to determine the de-
gree of the murder A jury was not
,alled. Judge Wakefield held him gull
y in the first degree and adjudged ne
should be executed by hanging March
q, 1908. Unless the sentence is COM
nuted, the hanging will be at Anamosa
1t that time. Or the supreme court
nay reverse the case. tho no appeal
papers have been filed with the SUI
oreme court and it is not certain an
appeal will be taken.
In fact, appeals to the supreme court
ave not been perfected in any of the
Xix cases in which the death penalty
las been the Judgment. The only case
II which the transcript of the evidence
las been filed with the governor, aside
rom the Hortman case. is that of the
tate vs.. Richard Williams, who MUIR
Tered William Sharper in Jefferson
ownship, Mahaska county, December
, 1901. March 73, 1903, is the date fixed
or the execution of Williams at Fort
Madison.
No transcripts have yet been filed
With the governor in the cases of