The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-23
GOVERNOR
 FREES EIGHT Usual Batch of Holidays
 PardOnS Issued. CLEMENCY OF EXECUTIVE W. W. Scott of Sumter is
 Among the Number. William H. Telvey of Pickens County, Paroled, But Must Abstain From Licuor-List of the

mas spirit sent yesterday from the Governors office to the various convict camps in Alabama. Joy unequalied in their lives before was borne to thc hearts of eight wearers of the horizon tai stripes
 Governor Jelks issued this many paroles and pardons together yester- day and restored the civil and politi- cal rights of three ex-convicts. IL was another observance of the Chief Exec utives custom in Alabama or oestow ing the limit of clemency where 1us- tice showed the way. near Christmas eve.
 It may have been that the convicts favored would have met with pardon or parole regardless of Christmas eve. or maybe not. Whatever was the chance of the subjects in either event. tho Governor has set down in every case a detailed reason for executive interference.
 List of Convicts. The convicts on whom Kris kringle has smiled so bountifully this year arc: W. w. Scott, of Sumter county tmur- | der); William H. Selvey, of Pickens county (manslaughter); Joseph w. Rowlan, of Dale county (murder); Na- thaniel Robinson of Montgomery coun- ty (grand larceny); Robert Felton, of Lee county (grand larceny): Joseph S. King, of Henry county fcarnal I knowledge): Thomas q. Johnson of | Fayette county (running lottery); and Alb Trenton, of Chiffon county Gus | ing obscene language in presence of women).
 The form of clemency in Johnson's case was the remission of part of the | fine imposed for operating a slot ma chine. Johnson. a white man, seems to have been the victim of hard luck as before he undertook to set up the l | | vised by counsel that 1t was not viola | tive of the Alabama statute defining | a lottery.
 The three ex-convicts who had their | full citizenship restored are: J. Wiley Fulton of Chiffon county. and William Few and Terry Few of Washington county These men have been out of the penitentiary for several years. w. W. Scott. of Sumter county. is the brother of Robert D. Scott, who Is | now being tried in the Sumter circuit court on an indictment for the murder of Mir. Seymour, the prominent planter who was shot and killed several years | ago. w. w. Scott was convicted of 1 complicity in the murder and at the time of the pardon was within four months of having served his sentence | of five years.
 | Executive clemency was recommend l ed for Scott by the Board of Pardons, | ten of the twelve trial jurors the trial judge, and almost as many citizens as | constitute the registered vote of Sum- | ter County. This was over two years ago. He was convicted June 2S, 1902. He has an invalid father and mother.
 Parole of Selvey. T.:"
 The trial judge, the Solicitor most of
 the trial jurors and many citizens of | Pickens County together with the | Board of Pardons, recommended elem I fn lfnV CfaIr- l.,
 who has served about six and a half years in the penitentiary for killing a | fellow citizen of his county. Selvey engaged in a shooting affray with his antagonist in which whiskey played a | greater part than malice. It was be-
 cause of Selvey's former craze for
 liquor that the Governor only paroled
 him conditioned upon his sustaining from intoxicating drinks In the future.
 The other convict for murder. Joseph | w. Rowlan, was under a life sentence.
 He was convicted September 2S 1894,
 by the Dale County Circuit Court, and
 has already served about eleven years.
 His principal prosecutor and many of
 the citizens of the community where the crime was committed signed a pe-
 tition for the parole. It was also
 shown that two other white men, John
 Folkes and Bryant Stokes, and a negro
 Jack Woodley. who was charged with
 complicity in the murder, have either
 been pardoned or not prosecuted to
 conviction. The murder was that of a
 negro man who lived in Dale County.
 Nathaniel Robinson, the Montgomery County convict, who was pardoned. has
 spent a good portion of his youthful
 age in the penitentiary. He was in
 stripes before being convicted in the
 Montgomery City Court of grand lar
 ceny. The previous offense was hobo A.,.- | tt,s.,
 viction that prevented young Robinson
 from getting the standing benefit of
 what is known in convict parlance as
 short time" Under this system by his continued good conduct in the re- cent sojourn in the walls" he should
 have been a free boy September 2 | Gladder, perhaps, than Nathaniel Is his l good old Nanny Sue" who has been pleading for her sons liberty for many months. His sentence was for two and a half years.
 A prevailing doubt as to his guilt | figured in the pardon extended Robert | Felton, negro convict from Lee Coun- ty. He was convicted of stealing a cow | The trial Solicitor and Board of Pardons are joined by numerous citizens of the | community in their expressions of doubt as to the guilt of Felton He was sentenced in the fall of 1903 to five years Imprisonment.
 | Rotations of Governor. | The words of the Governor on the
 file of papers of yesterday were as fol- lows:
 | w. w. Scott-The Board of Pardons, ten out of the twelve jurors who tried the case, the trial judge, and almost as many citizens as constitute the reg | istered vote of Sumter County, asked for the pardon of Will Scott more than two years ago. He has now served all but four months of his sentence.
 "A pardon Is hereby granted"
 William Selvey-This man killed another as the result of d drunken quarrel. He was sentenced to eight years, He has served all but one and a half years of his time. The judge who tried the case recommends elem ency. The solicitor is insistcnt that the facts would justify relieving him from further service of his sentence. Most all of the jurors and many citi- zens and the Board of Pardons recom- mend clemency
 l Tt is ordered that he be paroled de- pendent on his abstaining in future from the use of intoxicating liquors" U. Wiley Foshee-This man served a while in the penitentiary and was paroled in 1900. He has been faithful
 to the parole. The requisite number of the good citizens of Chiffon County
 recommend that his citizenship be re-
 stored, The Board of Tardons advise
 1t.
 The restoration of his civil and po- litical rights hereby ordered" Thomas c. Johnson-This man was