The Lamar register., 1902-10-15
Pardons and Paroles.

AT the meeting OF the state DOard OF
pardons October Sd Antoine Woode's
application for parole was refused.
The cases in which the board acted
favorably are as follows:
Louis Bergonia, sentenced from San
Juan county, October rs, 1901, to serve
from one to two years, for assault to
kill. Pardoned.
Ed Mcdaniel, sentenced from La
Plata county, March 20, 1902. to serve
from thirteen to seventeen months, for
assault; commuted to eight full
months.
j. II. Lewis, sentenced from Pueblo
county, February 10, 1899. to serve
twenty years for assault Pardoned
Pablo Bueno, sentenced from Las
Animas county, January 13, 1902, to
serve from one to five years for as
sault to murder. Pardoned.
Joseph Parry, sentenced from Ell
Paso county, March Z. 1899, to serve
for life for murder; committed to ten
years.
w. w. Dawson, sentenced from Lake
county, August 6, 1898, to serve hfteen
years for murder; committed to term
Of ten years.
Charles ]. Holland. sentenced from
FL Paso county, October II, 1886, to
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ten years.
James A. Bell. sentenced from
Arapahoe county October "a, 1901, to
serve from three to four years for rob-
berry. Pardoned.
Charles w. Graham, sentenced from
Arapahoe county, May Z. 1901, to serve
from two to three years for assault
Pardoned.
Pardons were refused in the follow
ing cases: ."
Frank Melvin, Weld county; Emil
Jakel, Arapahoe; Ventura Lopez
Huerfano; Cornelius Clemons. Boul-
der; o. Galasso, l.. Perino, N. Ferara,
Las Animas.
J. T.. Lewis was convicted on the
testimony of his daughter, who testi-
fed last night that she had sworn
falsely to send her father to prison.
Louis Bergonia, convicted of assault to
kill. was pardoned because soon after
his Imprisonment one of his legs was
blown off in an accident in the prison
stone quarries.
Antoine Woode sent a long letter to.
the board, explaining that he could
not find space in the parole blank for
his plea. He excuses his attempt at
iail.breaking on the ground that he
had no proper early training, as he has
grown up in prison. In this letter
Woode says:
At the time of my trial some doubt
existed in the mind of the court as to
whether or not l could legally be sent
to a penal institution. being so young,
and the Judge took it upon himself TO
pass an opinion before submitting it to
the jury, and by so doing he made
law. Instead of giving me the beneft
oi the doubt the judge sent me here
when I was but eleven years of age to
mingle amid and receive my educa-
tiun from what is considered the worst
clement of human nature-the Grim
inal. Hence from point of moral law
he committed a crime in sending me
to the penitentiary instead of the re-
form school. A child's mind was Gre
ated to take on impressions and was
no exception to the rule; is it sur
prlsing to find me six years later in
thn company of the three men who
planned the escape in which the late
Mr w. c. Rooney lost his life? Yet
| thought SO much of what was right
that l did not have anything to do
with the crime; nay, even ten minutes
before it happened l never dreamed
that any event Of its nature was afoot.
and from then on l was compelled to
act the part l did or give my life"