Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-09-01
OFFICIAL day.
Two ProclamationS Are Issued
Reprieve Granted Sen
tence Modified.

Governor Warfield was at his desk at
s. 80 this morning after having break
tasted leisnrely and taken a general
survey of the executive buildings and
grounds He was very much amused
at reports which reached him from
several sources that he had been in
jured and finally that he was dead.
The Governor said that he never had
felt better and that he had no idea of
any occurrence that gave rise to such
a rumor.
While here the Governor issued two
proclamations for state holidays
Labor Day on the 9th of September
and Old Defenders Day on the 18th
of September. The Governor this
morning issued reprieve for twenty
eight days in the case of Andrew
Leonhardt, who would nave been
hanged tomorrow, having been con
victed and sentenced at the Nav term,
1908. of the Criminal Court of Balti.
more City. The Governor stated his
morning that Ills action today was his
first statement as TO the matter of a
reprieve in this case.
United States Senator elect Isidor
Rayner has interested himself in this
case aud wrote letter TO the Cover
nor. The only matter, however, which
the Governor still considers open is
that of the sanity of the man, which
has been questioned in several COM
munications sent to the Governor
This matter win be referred to the
State Lunacy Commission. A sister
of the man was before the Governor
today and begged a Communication in
the case.
Three sentences imposed by William
j. GARLAND, late police justice of Bal
timore city, were modified by the Gov
ernor today. A pardon was issued to
Stephen Mathiey, who ON April "a,
1904, was convicted of an assault ON
Mary A. Taylor and sentenced to
three years in Jail. The assault took
place at the home of the young woman
and according TO letter written by
her TO the Governor, the facts of the
case were much misunderstood by the
Justice. These were, she states, that
Mathiey and friend. Michael Price,
accosted her and Mathiey placed his
hands on her shoulder and attempted
to kiss her. She therefore asked the
Governor to issue a release in the
case, which he has done.
William III. Burke, colored, con-
victed by the same justice of an as
sault upon his sister, Gilmore Burke,
and sentenced to two years in Jail,
where he has been since September 20,
1903, was pardoned. Tile facts, as
verified by the Governor, show that
the assault consisted of merely smack
ing his sisters jaws and that the
woman was not in the least injured.
The Governor also released Thomas
e. Elliott, whom Justice Garland on
March 30, 1904, sent to the House of
Correction for SIX months on the
charge of being an habitually disorder
ly character.
In the case of four young men con-
victed of riding on the cars of the Bal
timore q Ohio Railroad illegally, the
Governor was informed that employ
ment awaited them ON their release
and believed it better that they should
be at work than public charges. They
are William Newman, Joseph Calvert,
Lewis Martin and Augustus Hartman,
and they were convicted by Justice
Harry 4. Curley, of Carroll county.
They are glass blowers and trough
ing'' it little when they committed
their offense.
A pardon was issued this morning
to Benjamin +. Snouffer, convicted in
the Criminal Court of Baltimore
City, January term, 1903, Of illegal
registration and sentenced to eighteen
months in the Penitentiary. The sen
tence expires tomorrow and the pardon
will save his citizenship.