The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-17
MANY SEEK TO
 BE PARDONED Special Session of Par don Board. WILL BE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS Those Who Are Freed Will Have
 New Clothing. Governor Expected to Arrive Latter Part of Week to Sign Pardo.s-
 Man Who Killed His Son
 Seeks Clemency.
WILL BE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

n specidI meeting or the state Par don Board will be held this morning at the office of the Secretary of State at which time about twenty-five appli- cations for executive clemency will be passed on ana turned over to the Gov- ernor with recommendations. The batch that will De gone over this morn. ing IS unusually large, due to the fact that Christmas IS nearly here. and m keeping with the tune immemorial cus- tom Of issuing pardons for Christmas presents the Board will take up the cases that most need attention.
 The pardons will probably be issued by the Governor immediately on his return from his present hunting trip, and discharges VIII arrive at tue State prisons in ample time for the prisoners to get to their homes and spend the holidays in the bosom of theIr tami- lies. In accordance with the State pro- visions each prisoner released will be given 2 suit Of clothes and railroad rare to his home.
 Some of the more important cases to as follows:
 Ella Lingo. a white woman. sent up from Jackson County for murder two years age. The sentence was i've to the effect that the woman shot her brother-in-law after having separated from her husband. She stated that he continually harassed her. came to her
 
 until she could stand 1t no longer. While she was attending to her duties one day she heard one of the children crying, thinking that her brother-in- cries. as he had been before, she grasp ed a shot gun and emptied the contents into the man. She was convicted and sentenced to 1ve years. which sentence she is now serving.
 Tom Warren. negro. who is now serving thirty year sentence. is an- other petitioner for executive elem ency. He is serving time for the mur- up in 1901. It is stated in this negro's petition that he had called on tho form ei wife of Patterson. and that while there Patterson came after him with kPs Nss he He so taa so srS sh snes which Dus saw he could not get over in time to get out of the way of his pursuer, he stopped and pulled his pistol. When Patterson continued to advance he
 The Sheets Case.
 Another petition that has several times been presented is that of William T. Sheets, who killed his son on East. ago. Sheets was convicted of man. slaughter and sentenced to two years in the State prison. The crime is still familiar to those in % Monssomery. of age, were both drinking. The boy went home and after a quarrel with his father the homicide occurred.
 The case of J. Gurley Anderson. of Lamar County. Is one in which much interest centers. Sanderson was con- victed a year ago on charge of mur- der and was sentenced to twelve and a half years in prison. The evidence de- derson had been insulted by Bert War ton, a negro, as she was coming from a spring back of her house. She told her husband. who got his gun and af.
 Columbus Findley, convicted Tn Etot wah county of selling liquor in viola- ton of the State laws wants pardon after serving two months of his two year sentence.
 Frank Hunter. convicted In Calhoun county of forging note for$o and sent clemency. He has been In prison since June 1906
 Rich Lowe. doing six months for petty larceny, committed in Jefferson County appeals for liberty on the strength of his old age.
 Jules Temples, convicted last. April of burglary in Russell county and sen fenced to two years wants liberty.
 Michael Bremen, sent up from Jeff ferson county for two years for man slaughter last June, seeks clemency..
 A. J. Mailershed, serving twenty five year sentence for murder commit ted in Jefferson County is petitioner
 Frank Hill, doing twenty years for murder committed in Autauga County is among the list of those desiring to be free of prison life. He has been serving since 1898. William Hale, sent up from Hale county for life on a charge of murder wants his liberty again after serving seven years.
 Charley Yocum, sentenced to twenty years for assault with intent to ravish, committed in Franklin County. seeks a pardon
 D. K. Laws. of Jefferson County. seeks to be relieved of serving the re- maining ten years of his sentence. which was imposed for manslaugh- ter.
 Tom Pitts. doing time for murder committed in Houston County.
 James Bradford, a young white man convicted in Montgomery of grand lar ceny, is also a petitioner. This Is the case where the young man was drink ing and while in a resort in Montgom- cry was charged with larceny of pin. He was sentenced to two years in 1905. James Davis. of Bibb County convict ed of arson in the second degree Is also a oatifloner