The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-11
BOARD
RIGHTS A WRONG
EDWIN T. BLEW'S SENTENCE
COMMITTED NEARLY oNE-HALF.
Trial Judge Declares He Should Not
Suffer Greater Punishment Than
Equally Guilty Partner Other
Clemency Denied or Continued With
One Exception. s-~

Altho he remained silent during the
trial and allowed the court to place
all the blame and wrongdoing upon him
while his partner was equally guilty,
Armstrong, now serving seven-and-a-
half-year sentence In the state prison
for forgery, had his sentence committed
to4four years by the board of pardons
yesterday. This action, taken upon adj
vice Of Judge F. G. Brooks, the trial
judge, makes Blew,s sentence the same
Blew and Armstrong were in partner
ship in the grain. commission business
| in Minneapolis few years ago, and in
order to- get money with which to
speculate, they forged bills of lading
and deposited them with local banks as
tween $4,000 and 100000, the game
was exposed and they were arrested and
| convicted. Blew was first sentenced
and when Armstrong was brought be-
fore the court he made plea for elem
ency, laying the blame of the forgery on
Blew, who remained silent.
Since the trial, Judge Brooks learned
that Armstrong was equally. guilty Of
the crime and he Joined in the request
that Blew's sentence be committed to
four years, so as to be the same as
Armstrong;. This request. and that
of a number of responsible Minneapolis
pardon board yesterday.
The application for pardon, Of Robert
Owens Of Austin, sentenced for life
for criminally assaulting an 8-year-old
girl, was denied. The application was
when he pleaded guilty. His sister APP
peared before the board and said that
her mother was in bad health and that
the family needed Owen s assistance.
Even the plea of the governor was
not sufficient to reach the hearts of the
members Of the board and the applica-
ton of John Bingham Of Winona, serv-
ing an indefinite term for grand larceny
in the first degree, was denied. Coy
ernor Van SAINT knew the family and
pleaded for the boys freedom, but as
the lad had a bad record at the St.
Cloud, reformatory and had to be trans
ferred to Saltwater, the plea was
robbed a man Of $500.
, The cases Of Link Thayer, James G.
Hall, Charles F. Hoffman and Homer S.
fences for robbing Great Northern
train, were continued.
John Dalgren, serving ten:year
sentence for grand larceny, applied for
a pardon and his case was taken under
advisement. The same disposition was
made of the case of Fred R. Lewis, now
out on parole, who asked for pardon
Sandberg's application for Communication
q sentence from three years to eighteen
months was granted. He is serving a
sentence for carnal knowledge of a
;, female child under the age of sixteen
! years. The application Of W. A. Pat
! ten, the LIE Sueur county forger, was de-
, MED.
Fifteen cases were continued until
the next term. The other cases were
, disposed Of as follows:
James G. Nugent,- murder, denied;
Edward Hawkins, forgery, under adj
g. visement; William Bolvine, robbery,
: under- advisement; William Fitzsim-
mons, murder, committed from life to
2 nine years; Walter J. Kelly, bigamy, de-
MED; Charles E.. Lee, grand larceny,
denied; Joseph Shearer, grand larceny,
denied; Joseph E. Goldstein, grand lar
> ceny and assault, denied; Johann Tan
ko, participating in murder, denied !;
I James Jacob Schuhe, grand larceny,
j, denied; Louis Burns, grand larceny,
3 denied; Frank Meyers, grand larceny,
denied; Otto Lundeen, murder contin-
ued; Alfred Bordeau, grand larceny,
j; denied; John Hopkins, grand larceny in
second degree, denied; Nellie Martin,
: vagrancy, denied, Charles E. How,
. ard, in st. Paul workhouse, pardoned;
Ole Overlie, Albert Lea workhouse,
conditionally released; BENJAMIN J.
. Campbell grand larceny in second de-
gree, committed to two years and six