The sun., 1903-12-13
The Exhibition OF a Governor.

The subjoined passage in the statement
attributed to Governor ODELL by the
New York World now appears in its place
in the logical sequence:
AZ pardoned SHERLOCK for reasons which
seemed 10 me sufficient. Within ten days after
his release from prison he died OF pneumonia
"'And that act. you think, inspired THE sun
to attack your
Il do"
The intention here is obvious. Mr..
ODELL desires to give the impression
that as an upright Governor, guided only
by public considerations and those OF
ordinary humanity, and undeterred by
appeals and threats from the newspaper
whose business the convicted libeller
and boycotter had been doing his ut
most to ruin, he pardoned SHERLOCK
simply because he was morbund.
II pardoned SHERLOCK for reasons
which seemed to me sufficient, Mr..
ODELL is represented by the World as
saying within ten days after his re-
lease he died of pneumonia.
This is another false statement, false
both literally and by implication. The
date of the pardon of SHERLOCK by Gov
ernor ODELL was April 20, 1901. The
date of SHERLOCK s death from pneu-
monia, having 10 relation to his physical
condition at the time of his pardon by
Governor ODELL, was May Is, 1901 or
twenty-five days after the pardon. This
is shown by certified extract from the
record of deaths reported to the Depart
ment of Health of the City of New York:
Il hereby certify that ! attended deceased WILL
LIAM r. SHERLocKl from May II. 1901, to May 49,
1901, and that las, saw him alive on the 18th day
OF May 1901, about 80 clock A. NJ. and that to
the best OF my knowledge and belief the cause OF
his death was as follows: Pneumonia.
witness my hand this 18th day OF May. 1901
~. ]. BURGER. NJ. D.
30 Buffalo Avenue"
When we say that the pneumonia
which developed twenty-one days after
SHERLoCKs pardon had no relation to
his condition at the time when Governor
ODELL interfered with the just sentence
of Judge CowING affirmed by the unan-
imous opinion of the Appellate Division
of the Supreme Court, and later by the
unanimous opinion of the Court of APP
peals, we rely upon the pardoned con-
vict's own statement. This was printed
iii signed editorial article in the Un'onist,
wherein the released convict was per-
mitted by Governor ODELL's grace to
resume his criminal activity. He said
on April rs:
The Union has lost nothing by me going to
prison. and have lost nothing. As a matter OF
fact have got fat on It. When man
ia undergoing punishment apd gains ten or fifteen
pounds, he would make ridiculous ass OF himself
IN trying to do the martyr act. decline TO be
martyr Haven't suffered particle. To
Commissioner OF Labor MCMACKIN and to Pres-
dent LAvBRTY OF the State Federation OF Labor.
uho pleaded IN my behuH ,cth the Gosernor; to the
Governor himself, pho seemed 10 grasp the true
inuardnsss of the case much better hGn the courts
had done TO these and to many others
I shall always feel grateful and shah count my
little experience on the Island as Of no moment
compared with the knowledge that | had their
good will WILLIAM f. SHERLOCK
Thus the third witness against the
veracity of the Hon. BENJAMIN B. ODELL,
Jr., happens to be the man he pardoned.