Bisbee daily review., 1905-11-01
ALVORD'S SENTENCE
 WHEN IT EXPIRED Superintendent of Prison Ex- plaiHS Jumbling of
 Figures

PhOenlN Oct 3l.-Superntendent Jerry Millay. of the territorial prison aI Yuma, is in the city. He was seen yesterday concerning the incident of the release of Burt Alvord, which has been commented upon quite freely by the territorial press. Mir. Millay said that it was unfortunate that misun
 derstanding existed as to the dates | and he was sorry it had caused em | haTrasSment for the United States Marshal who held a warrant for the arrest of Alvord on his discharge from the penitentiary at the instance of the government of Mexico, which wants him to answer the charge of holding | up and robbing John Tener in that county. The Marshal believed he knew the date of the expiration of Al | worlds sentence, hence he had not | previously informed the superintend- | ent of the prison that he had warrant | for Alvord's arrest. The superin- | tendent on the other hand, had learn | ed of the complications attending the figuring of Alvord's time. and proceed | ed to figure it out for himself, releas- 1 ing the convict on the resulting date of October 10. The U. s. Marshal, | on the other hand, had figured the ! time for the expiration of the sent. l ence to be October 26, so was not on hand when the prisoner was dischapg- | ed.
 The complications in the figures ! came about in a peculiar way, and was as follows: Alvord was sent l enced December 8, 1903, to serve for | TWO years, service to begin on that i date, in which event his term would naturally expire on December :, 1905. | All United States prisoners are allow i ed by law six days per month for good i behavior. which in two years would aggregate IA days in Alvord's favor. This, deducted from December 7,I 1905. left the date of his discharge July IS, 1905.
 However, it happened that Alvord instead of beginning service on De cember s, 1903, broke jail at Tomb stone befort he was taken to the pen, and it was S7 days before he was cap 1ured and landed at the pen, which event was on March 4, 1904, during the administration of Superintendent Griffith. The incarceration, hOwey- CT. was on the same old commitment
 
 initial point of all calculations. But < chanced that Superintendent Grif- filth had, in some manner, figured up the end of Alvord's original sentence as July 30, instead of July 15, and it was Superintendent Griffith's figures that MT. Daniels was calculating on during the time he was superintend- ent of the prison. Writing to United States Attorney Nave for information : ln regard to the S7 days lost by AL . word while at large, MT. Daniels. as su. i perintendent, was told to add it to the ! end of the original expiration of the | sentence, which he did, and deducting | the good time, got Oct 26. But he | worked from the date calculated by | Superintendent Griffths. July 80, 1 whereas Mir. Millay added the S7 days in the same manner, but worked from | his own calculations, which differed | from those of Superintendent Griffths | a few days. Mir. Millay says his req son for making a new calculation of | his own was that he had been told by | several parties, including Alvord him. l self, that there had been complica- | uons in the figuring of his time, so he | took special pains to figure it up him | self, not knowing at the time that the | Marshal or any one else was desirous 1 of arresting Alvord again. MT. Mil ! lay figured two years from March 1, 1 1904, when he was actually commit | ed, then deducted the IA days for good time.