Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-10-20
PRIOE ONE GENT
I WAS Attorneys DAY
AT THEEXECUTIVEDEPART-
MENT TO-DAY.
The Governors Pardon Is Asked
Again-His Official Day
a Busy One.

This was attorneys day at the Ex.
ecntiye Department this morning
most of the time before Governor War
field being taken up in the presenta-
ton of petitions for pardon by gentle.
men of that profession representing
clients who are undergoing some form
If detention. The Governor acted
upon some of these and laid others
aside for action when more completely
presented to him.
MIR. Harry Welles Rusk succeeded in
securing from the Governor the re-
lease from Jail of Charles Carlson,
who has been in Jail for nearly year
serving an eighteen months sentence
for assaulting another man. The
youth is promised employment by the
firm of w. J. Nelson, of Chicago,
where he formerly worked and il was
shown to the Governor that his SER
vices we're very much needed by an
aged mother.
The case of Dan Levy was presented
TO the Governor by Mr.. Richard b.
Tippett, of Baltimore. Levy, il viii
be remembered, was the proprietor of
baths and school for physical cul-
ture on Madison avenue in Baltimore
He became financially involved and
to relieve himself disposed of a worth
less draft drawn ON his brother, for
which he was on February Z, 1902,
sentenced in the Criminal Court of
Baltimore City TO five years in the
Penitentiary. His pardon is urged
on the ground that he was young and
inexperienced in business matters
when he committed the crime; that
he has thoroughly repented, and that
he will leave the state il pardoned
and engage in business which has
been offered him elsewhere. The Gov
ernor promised further investigation
of the case.
The Governor had his attention call
cd to the case of John X. Costelow,
convicted of bigamy, by Mr.. Harry
T.. Scherf. This was another of the
cases where the party married, after
having been given a form of separa-
tion by A. p. Jump, now deceased,
who was at the time an attorney in
Baltimore city. The man was techni-
cally guilty of the crime, Eand was
sentenced to eighteen months in the
Penitentiary, but as he married under
bona fide belief that he had the
right, Judge Phelps, before whom the
case was tried, and States Attorney
Owens joined in the petition for the
pardon, which the Governor indicated
ne will grant.
The Governor has ordered the adj
vertisement of the case of John How
ard Barnes, who in May of this year
was found guilty of embezzlement by
the Criminal Court of Baltimore City,
having spent money which he had col
lected for his employers. and sentenced
to three years in Jail. The boys
mother was for many years an en-
ployee of the Fidelity Company, OF
which the Governor is president, and
after her death he took up with bad
company, which caused his downfall.
The Governor is in receipt Of let
ter from young man of Anne Arun
del county, asking that his name be
placed on the registration list by the
Governor, as he was unable TO regis
ter at the regular times. It closes az
follows: "In your reply please let
me know il you received my letter. "
The Governor has not, as yet, been
able to make an appointment to fill
the membership of the Board of School
Commissioners of Anne Arundel coun-
ty made vacant by the death of DR.
Elijah Williams The Governor said
today that he would delay the ap-
pointment until he was enabled 20
settle down for the winter in the EX-
ecutive Mansion and that he would
then call in some of his fellow Anna
politans in some evening and talk IL
over.
William Ryan was today appointed
justice of the peace for the Queen
Anne's district of Prince Georges
cuunty