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try who should not be paroled.
Gov Jackson refused the pardon,
and so did Gov. Drake. Then came
Gov. Shaw, now Secretary Of the
Treasury. He finally granted a pa
role TO Shercliffe, who was released and
inside Of year, was captured in a
crime in Missouri, brought back to
Iowa, and reincarcerated in the peni-
Tertiary.
Shercliffe by this time had become
ineensed against his Omaha friends
Convinced that they had not done all
in their power for him he made
detailed confession which implicated
Dennison not only in his crime, but
in various others He. told how po-
litical influence had been used to get
his parole, and investigation of the
files of the Governors office proved
that all he charged was true.
From these files, which had never
before seen the light of publicity, it
appeared that syndicate of power
full politicians, lobbyists and railroads
managers, who are equally inuuential
in Iowa and Nebraska, had done the
real business. Dennison had been able
to interest them. When the Shercliffe
confession. illumined by the sidelights
Of the official documents in the Gov
errors office, including several espe-
| cially racy latters marked personal .
was published, Iowa enjoyed the judie-
lest political sensation it had tasted for
many years. Politics in Iowa and Me-
braska would have to be completely
recognized if all the men who mixed
in the Shercliffe parole affair were re-
! tired
! This sensation was Immediately fol-
lowed by a new one. The Omaha Civic
Federation had long been on the trail
of Dennison. Here was its chance 1t
{; started fight all along the line; in
tefested the Iowa authorities. and at
! the same time started an anti-crime
crusade in Omaha, aimed especially at
| Dennison. IA .s.s.
Results came fast. The authorities
| of Harrison County, Iowa, Indicted
Dennison, for the robbery of Pollock,
and sent to Nebraska for him. At the
same time the crusade in Omaha
reached the bitterest stage. Attorney
/ Thomas. for the Civic Federation, APP
peared one night before the Board of
Police Commissioners and charged
/ conspiracy between Dennison and the
\ police for the formers protection. He
not only charged it, but he produced
documents which were as sensational
as had been those in the shercliffe pa
role case in Iowa.
/ That night, less than two hours af-
! ter he had reached his home, the
Thomas residence was dynamited. A
| bomb placed on the front porch had
been fired. with fuse and the front
/ part of the house wrecked. That no
body inside was injured, aside from
| the shock which the ladies sustained,
was marvellous.
The mystery of the Thomas dyna-
hitting affair is as deep to-day as when
lit happened, three months ago The
police failed utterly to trace it out.
I Since that time Dennison has been
! fighting to save himself from trial In
Iowa He declined to go to the State
| without requisition. Gov. Cummins is
\ sued the papers, and Dennison had the
Governor. Of Nebraska enjoined from
issuing the order to turn him over to
| the Iowa authorities. The Iowa au-
thorities appealed to the Nebraska SUI
preme Court. which sustained them;
then Dennison on a writ of error APP
1 pealed to the Supreme Court of the
United States There the case has
been about three months.
1T has just been decided much
| sooner than anybody anticipated-and
tho decision removed Dennison's last
hope, apparently, of escaping the oWa
trial, Governor Cummins is determined
that the case shall be tried for all
| there lis. in it. and the State may fur
! nish County authorities. The trial will
/ take place at Logan, probably in May
! ST, Paul Dispatch