The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-15
FOUR MORE
 GET PARDONS COnvicts Are Released by
 Governor. TOM CRITTENDEN FREED Montgomery County Young
 Man Paroled. Judge Coleman, Dallas Negro, and Robert viekers, Chambers coun- ty White Man, Are Among the Number.
 

Four additional pardons for eonvicts were issued yesterday morning from the State Executive Department, Tom Crit tenden, young white convict of Mont gomery County was paroled permanently dependent on. his future good conduct and the civil and political disabilities of Jim Ray of Culiman County were re- moved.
 ,Convicts who secured pardons yester- day were: Jim McKsnnon of Barbour County; Johnson Williams of Barbour County; Judge Coleman of Dallas County and Robert vickers of Chambers County.
 vickers is q white man. He was con- victed of bigamy in September, 1908. and was sentenced to two years imprison- ment In issuing 6 pardon to vickers the Governor said:
 ''This man Is represented to me to be weak minded. His first wife had mar ried again and he was of the impression that such marriage on her ps.st entitled him to do likewise. The trial judge and solicitor and many good citizens recom- mend that he be pardoned as does also the Board of Pardons. Let pardon issue" !"
 Judge Coleman, a negro boy of Dallas County, was serving forty years sentence for murder of another negro near Browns Station. He was convicted at the fall term of the Dallas Circuit Court. 1896. In granting Coleman a pardon Governor Jeiks said:
 This man has served eight years on a conviction for murder in the second degree. The trial judge and the solicitor and many good citizens recommend that he be pardoned. The recommendation is concurred in by the Board of Pardons. It is ordered that a pardon issue.''
 Jim McKinnon of Barbour was serving a sentence of ten years for conviction of rape. He was convicted at the fall term ISo2 of the Barbour Circuit Court.
 Governor Jelks in issuing the pardon called attention to the accommodation of the trial judge and solicitor as we'll as the Pardon Board and said that some of the principal witnesses against Me- Kinnon had made affidavits that they swote falsely.
 Johnson Williams of Barbour was par doned on the recommendation of Physi- clan Convict Inspector Bragg that he was in d dying condition. Williams was con- yicted of carrying concealed weapon In 1903 and was sentenced to nine months and forty-eight days.
 Tom Critteden of Montgomery County who was permanently paroled is young white man who was convicted of grand larceny, stealing cows, and was sentenc- ed to six years of Imprisonment. He was convicted in the City Court of Mont gomery in 1909.
 Crittenden has been doing time at Pri- son No. on the Lower Wetumpka road. His father being desperately i'll at his home In the Southern part of the county. Crittenden has been paroled twice to per- init him to go home and see his parent. He was with his father when his per- manent parole reached him. In granting a parole to Crittenden Governor Jelks said;
 This man is the son of Mir. F. T. Crit tenden. an old, one-armed Confederate soldier, who lies now, according to the statement of his physician. at deaths door, His father is a worthy man.
 Up to the time of the prosecution young crlttenden had an excellent repu- tation in the community in which he lived. A large number of good citizens of Montgomery and Pike Counties peti- tion for his release.
 "The Board of Pardons on April 3, 1905 recommended that he be pareled a year from that date. have decided to give this young man a chance to make a now start in life. Let parole issue de- pendent on his future conduct"
 Jim Ray of Cullman County whose citi- zenship was restored by the Governor has served out a sentence of twenty-five months for assault to murder. He was convicted in the Circuit Court of Cullman September g, 1s99
 His application for restoration of citi- Zenship was recommended by many good citizens of his county, the trial Judge and Solicitor and the Board of Pardons.