The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-20
 Clernency Affects 25 Prisoners. ADoLPH GERALD IS FREED Son of Late Police Chief Profits
 by Action.
 --s-e--- Many servias Lsse Terms are Favored .by E1.eptive, wAo Completes 1908 wlih New Lew Re-
 eerd fer Year.

The spirit of Christmastide went out from the. Capitol to the State prisons yesterday. and as a result. twenty i've of the State convicts, and one former prisoner, were made beneticiavies of the Governors annual Christmas pres ent tc convicted criminals in Alabama. By order of Governor yeiks, eight ilfsesri paroles were fsausd One eonvict serving life imprisonment, had, his sentence commuted to expire Jan. II, 1907. and A man who cop1pleted hts restoration of political and civil rights number of them life prisoners and prison walls and .breathe, for the arst time in months and years the air of freedom Christmas day, the families anI friends of these men and women were taken by the. arm Of the law and shut ui,swithin four walls.
 Prominent among those who hthEs benefis by the cleInency os the Chief S Esefutivs pdos S AseRa , s ,S asTad no son for or many years, guarded over the peace and welfare. of Montgomery. Young Gerald. almost ten years ago. while under the infi,ienee of liquor; shot and Friedman. in a quarrel which was caused by a remark made by the lat Ter. On trial in the Montgomery City Court. in oeteberr leQ0. Hystts slayer to ten years Imprisonment Since that time, numeroas petitions have been raised and sent to Governors of Ala batna ,intercedfng in the young mans with the finaI. order of clemency, ap pear letters written to Governor Jellks and Governor Johnston by many of the leading men of Monsgomsrs. Two mended len a parole. par But until yesterday element action was refused. and with the present parole, only eight months of the short term awarded for geod conduct in prison, have been remttted " M Froaissd Dead chIeR.
 Like voice from the grave. sounds a note written in lead pencil on the bears the date December 30. 1908. and is in Governor Jelks's own handwrit-
 Hi said to one or two friends of the chies 1t reads, taas 4 9etoIe S sostbS1x menI Ent
 The reasons assigned for the exten- sion of the parole by Governor 0elks
 "This man was convicted and sen teI.ced ts a term of ten years. The warden of the prison in which he has been confined, reports him as being worthy of elemency as any man in his charge in so far as his conduct since under his care is concerned. He has served all but eight months of his ten- year sentence His friends believe that he will make a useful citizen if given hls liberty Many of the people in The city of Montgomery and county, peti- tion for his pardon or parole. Among these petitioners Is a large number of railroad engineers who joined at first in his prosecution, The Board of Par dons more than two years ago recom- meiaded a parole. The trial judge rec commended ona some time agQ,f
 Twenty YenFs . PrisoneE.
 Only one other prisoner from Mont gomery profited by. the Governors pa role yesterday. This was Jordan John son, a prisoner who was serivng a lie sentence for murder, committed So long ago that 1t has been forgotten In the passage of time. For almost twenty years, Johnson has been in the service from April IS. 1887, and during that among, prison wardens of being a good Johnson reads as follows:
 The warden at Flat Top, eertifies that this man Is one. of the best pris- speaks of him in the highest terms. He has been In the servlce oi the State since the early part of 1sSs. nearly because of his continuous .faithfnlness