Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-06-04

pleted it's session, Saturday working
until about ten O'Clock in the evening.
The meeting was one Of the most
largely attended of any that has been
held by the state pardon board, seven
or eight applicants for pardon being
represented before the members of the
board by attorneys. Attorney Tracy
R. Bangs was in the city with the in
tention of presenting the Till case ito
the attention of the board and asking
for communication of sentence but.
after consulting with Judge N. G.
Young, who was prosecuting attorney
Of Pembina county at the time of the
trial Of Till he decided not to present
the application at this time. r. .
The case of Seth L. HartzeH, the
young attorney who was sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary for the
shooting of Byron Stcddard in Cava-
lier county was eloquently presented
to the board by General e. A. Will
liams, who pleaded for a pardon for
the young man on the ground that
the evidence showed that he had
acted in necessary self defense i'll
firing the shot that killed Stoddard.
In view of the fact that the states
attorney of Cavalier county made
Recommendation against the granting
Of a pardon and that Judge Fisk de-
clined to make any recommendation
for pardon in the case, the members
tof the board denied the application
for pardon. -
Attorney Ed Pierce appeared before
| the board in behalf OF Charles and
Anna Troyer, sentenced from Cass
county to seven years for robbery. A
large number of petitions were pre-
scented to the board in this case. At
torney Pierce stated that the parents
of Troyer were living in Canada and
had agreed to take the couple away
from the state If pardoned. Troyer
land his wife have boy about seven
or eight years of age. Their crime
was said to have been due to abso-
lutte want into which they had been
plunged by years of reverses. The
couple had already served more than
three years Of their sentence and a
pardon was granted by the board and
they were taken from the city on the
night train.
Leslie Beall and Thomas Cross, two
boys eighteen years of age, who were
tsent up from Richland county for a
year for burglary in the third degree
were pardoned. Their terms would
have expired in August. The fathers
of both boys were here to take them
Il back in case the board should aIct
favorably. Judge Allen, by{ whom
they were sentenced and Attorney
Wolfe, who prosecuted, both strongly
recommended the pardon. The boys
thad gone into car and taken out a
case OF salmon and eaten some CT it
and their crime consisted in entering
| the car by breaking the seal, although
1bhis they denied.
+ Philip Fl. schempf of Benson coun.
Fly, sent up for year for shooting
with intent to do great bodily harm,
was also pardoned. Schempf was a
/ farmer. in Benson county, and he had
had considerable trouble. with some
/ boys in his neighborhood, who were
represented by Attorney Comstock,
who appeared for Schempf, as having
been mischievous and trouble raising
i youngsters, who had frequently shot
in the direction of Schempf and his
wife. On the day in question Schempf
met the<boys, both armed with shot
/ guns and he said they had accosted
him at the same time raising their
/ guns as If to shoot He fired re.
i yolyer and one of the boys received a
/ flesh wound in the arm. Schempf' S
4 application was endorsed by the
states attorney and by a petition OF
i his neighbors. His wife and ,tlittle
son appeared before the pardon board
i John Bietz, sent UP for ten years
| for rape from Mclean county, was
i also pardoned. Attorney Shaw OF
Fessenden appeared for him. Judge
i Winchester and States Attorney Nc,
4 Culloch recommended a pardon an5
Il the neighbors Of Bietz joined In a
q petition. Il appears from the test
i mony ia the case that the crime 5oi
Il adultery was the worst that nigh
Iproperly have be,a held agains
I. Bietz and the board felt that as he
1had served more than two wears he
q had been amply punished for what
a ever crime lie had committed,
Nels Evint ers, convieted Id McHenry
drounty of maintainiRg u nuisance and
il sentenced 10 ave months Id the
d county jail, was pardoned 10y the
board, It being represented that be
Il had paid his dne ann costs, that his
a health was such that his life was