Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-15
|PARDONS and PAROLES
J Some of Governor Cummins'
Paroles We're on Cases At
tracing Much Attention
SUSPENSIONS OF SENTENCE
SUSPENSIONS OF SENTENCE
From Marshall County in the Past Two
Years. There Have Been Five in
| Number, Including w. D. Hedrick,
! Sentenced to Three Years in the Pen
] itentiary for Forgery.
,ia, to s-Renuhlican

Epecia! to Times Republican
Des Moines, Jan. 15.-In the report
Of Governor Cummins on his pardon
and parole work for the biennial term
! Is the interesting case o. John w.
Sanders, who disappointed from high
school in New orleans and his family
spent small fortune hunting for him
for five years, only 10 find him serN :
ing time in the Iowa state penitentiary.
The young man was paroled and now
makes regular reports from his home
in New Orleans. A similar case has
been developed since the pardon report
was made. Charles Herring, school
boy OF 10, of excellent family, left
his home in Chicago in 1902. He start
cd for Iowa to engage in gathering corn
and in November his parents got a pos
tai card from him sent from Palmyra.
! Ia. They heard no more from him un-
iii last Week his mother received let
ter from him sent from the Fort Mad
tson penitentary. She came To Iowa
and found the boy had been sentenced
December so last al Newton. to two
and helf years in the penitentiary,
for larceny from a building. He had
fallen in with a hardened character
named John Wesley and they had gone
to farm house and finding the family
away had entered and eaten food and
taken some clothing. Both pleaded
guilty and received sentences of 2lr
years. The mother came to Dies Moln,s
and interceded for the release of he.
boy. He had been of good previous
character but had never been from the
parental roof, and ii was evident NJ
was led into the crime by another.
{ The county attorney favored parole
and Judge Scott, who sentenced the
boy. was not opposed and the parole
was issued. This is only sample of
many such cases which come before
the governor each year.
Other Paroles.
Some of Gov. Cummins' paroles were
on cases that had attracted much al
tention. In Washington county, Hub.
bell %. Soper, OF Dixon, ILL.,, who got
rich selling patent right on wash
Ing machine, and was convicted of
conspiracy to defraud. was sentenced
TO two years. He made a great fight
before the supreme court but was d.
1eated. After serving fifteen laws he
was Sa~oled. but he prs.ious1y' paid
DIS m -siie patent right bus.-
. H. $3.50 and had paid costs of over
$1,000. Seven persons had made COM
plant against him. He sold his patent
rights for $1,000 each.
]. H. Phillips. who was special po-
liceman al Eldon and used his billy
on a drunk man so we'll that the man
died. failed to get relief from a 3
year sentence for manslaughter, bu.
was paroled. This was case in which
the defense Was practically that Tho |
drunk mans skull WAS too thin or no
wouldn't have had IL broken, but the |
governor also found that under 10
circumstances could the case be one |
OF mansaughter
Mrs. Frnestine Bertoch. who was |
serving a life sentence from Clinton
for the murder of former husband. |
Her then husband who was convicted I
with her was released by decision of
the supreme court. She was paroiei |
when the report came that she was dy-
ing aud she went to Milwaukee with
relatives.
The suspensions of sentence fro,.,
Marshall county in the past two years
according to the reports from the par
don APARTMENT of the state were as
follows:
w. D. Hedrick. forgery. 3 years.
Charles Sundell, larceny, . years s
months.
Georgia Mason. adultery. years.
since revoked.
James Sanford, larceny, 8 years.
Joseph Milton, obtaining money By
false pretenses, 4 months in Jail.