Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-11
CLEMENCY EXTENDED
THE PRESIDENT ACTS FAVoRA,
BLY, In TWENTY-NINE CASES.
Communication of Sentence Granted
Prisoners to Be Released
Immediately.

The President has acted upon ffty-one
applications for executive clemency of
which he has denied twenty-five and has
granted clemency In one form or another
in twenty nine cases, as follows:
He has committed from five to three
years the sentences of the following seven
teen prisoners, convicted in the Indian ter
ritory OF larceny OF horses or cattle name
ly: Henry Draper. Geo w. Springstead.
Hugh Box. Arthur Butler Len Cooper, Al
Davis. William Frantz Lon Hicks. ]. b.
Hollingsworth. Sam Nail. Charles Peyton.
Richard Rowe. Albert Thomas. John
Woods. Isaac Lawson. Ellis Ketcher and
James Smith,
The Communication in the first sixteen cases
will operate to release the prisoners i'm
mediately. In the case of James Smith
It VIII operate to release him on October
49, 1903.
The President has committed to actual
imprisonment for two years the sentence of
e. H. Scrivener. convicted in the Indian
territory of selling intoxicating liquor and
sentenced on May 13, 1901, to Imprisonment
for four years.
He has committed to actual imprisonment
for ten years the sentence of Alfred Clancy,
convicted in the western district of Arkan-
sas of robbery and sentenced on November
Il, 1888. to Imprisonment for twenty four
years in the Kings county penitentiary at
Brooklyn This prisoner was a member of
the notorious Henry Starr gang. of which
Kid Wilson was also a member Both
Starr and Wilson have heretofore had their
sentences reduced to ten years.
Frank Booth. an ALASKA Indian boy
thirteen years old. was convicted in Alaska
of violation of the Alaska code and sem
fenced to Imprisonment for three years
in the United States penitentiary at Nc
Neil's Island. the law not authorizing the
Imprisonment of youthful offenders i'm
Alaska in a reform school The President
has committed this sentence to a similar
term of Imprisonment in a reform school
to be designated by the Attorney General
CASTOR. -Sauyeterre was convicted in
Porto Rico of passing counterfeit coins. and
on January q. 1902. was sentenced to pay
a fine of 5000 and to be imprisoned for
ten years in the penitentiary at San Juan.
The President has commUted his sentence
to Imprisonment for five years in the pen
itentiary at San Juan on the ground that
the sentence imposed by the court was
He has pardonsd Lloyd. Lovely. q negro
boy. thirteen years +old.-.now confined in
the reform school of the District of CO.
attempting to break into a post Office in
the eastern district of Louisiana. The par
don is granted because the boy has tuber-
culosis.
He has RENTED the forfeiture of rec
ognizance of $500 in the case of the United
States agt.- Samuel Moten.
He has .commuted to expire on June 10
the sentence of Thomas H. Barnett. con-
sentenced on December 20 1902, to i'm
prisonmeat for nine. months in the county
Jail at Frankfort. KY, and to pay fine
of $500.
He has committed to expire on June 10
the sentence or ". A. Newberry. convicted
in Tennessee of retailing liquor without
paying the tax and sentenced on October
6, 1902 to Imprisonment for a year and
ten days in the Tennessee state prison.
Walter Lee was convicted in the Indian
territory of the larceny of a saddle and
horse and -was sentenced to Imprisonment
for seven. and one-half years in the Mis-
souri, penitentiary. His sentence has been
committed to term of Imprisonment to
expire June 10. because he has served all
but a year of his sentence and is in the
last stages of tubercuiar consumption and
can live but few weeks. - :
He has granted three pardons to restore
civil rights in the following cases: William
Hill. convicted IN the Indian territory OF
larceny and sentenced to year and six
months in the United States penitentisry
and discharged from prison February 10.
1901; Bert Lynch. convicted in the Indian
territory of larceny of cattle and sentenced
to imprisonment for three years in the
United. States penitentiary and discharged
April 16, 1902; John r. Leach. convicted in
the western district pfsArksnsas of adultery
and sentenced to imprisonment for eighteen
months-ir the Detroit house of correction
and discharged March %. 1902.