Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-17
PARDON DUE |O JONES
Prisoner in Fort Madison Still
Held Regardless of An
others Confession
ExoNERArED OF THE CRIME
Parole Board Has Attention Called to
Matter and Will lnvestisate-Ames
College Having Difficulty in Filling
McKay's Place-The Supreme Court
Vacancy.
Vacancy.
Special to Times-Republlcan.

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w. N. H Jones, has been in existence
for three years, Jones has been held at
| the penitentiary at Fort Madison serv-
/ ing sentence of life Imprisonment
| for the murder. The case is one Of the
strangest that has come into the hands
| Of the new state board Of parole and it
can not be understood why Warden
! Jones should have "pigeon-holed" the
confession and affidavit and said moth
Ing about r.
About ten years ago railroad con-
struction gang was, at Rome, Ia. In
Henry county. The workmen had sue
ceeded in shipping some liquor up
from Burlington. All had been drink
| ing to some extent Some man, not
member of the gang Of workmen came
to the depot and was held up. He re-
fused to submit to being robbed and
! was shot Most Of the gang OF work
| men ran. but Jones and the other were
caught and were convicted OF murder
| In the IlrSt QeSFec S1A0 SSAeSiASS~ ~ 49,
penitentiary for life.
About three years ago the other man
died and just before his death he made
affidavit and confession that Jones was
not guilty at all and that he shot the
| man himself after planning with some
of the other workmen to rob the man.
He thoroughly exonerated Jones
claiming that Jones knew nothing OF
| the robbery plans. Jones has always
stoutly claimed his innocence tho ne
admitted to have been standing WITHIN
thirty feet Of the man who was shot
at the time.
The state board of parole heard OF
the confession for the first time TINS
week when it was at Fort Madison.
The confession is properly attested by
the officials of the penitentiary. 1t
was found among the papers turned
over to Warden Saunders, the new
warden, by Warden Jones. The con-
ression is more than three years old
now and Jones, the man accused, has
served nine years of his term. Jones is
mulatto, 36 years old and is model
prisoner. He was born in Washta, La
The state board of parole will invests
gate the matter further
Dick Williams, the Fort Madison
prisoner serving a life sentence for
murder, having fired at one man, but by
poor aim killed his best friend instead
viii never taste free air. Williams
begged for two hours of free air. He
.,as consumption and is so far gone
rat he can not be moved. He is ex-
49, chr iyron
The board of trustees of the State
sricultural College at Ames are fac
~: some difficulties in filling the po-
sition made vacant by the resignation
81 Professor Mckay Of the dairy de-
.,...tment Professor Mckay has re-
med to go to Chicago to take a po-
;tion at the head of a dairy asso-
ation at a salary Of $4,000 year.
q was getting $500 at the state col
ss. 1t is a fact that professors In
IA, various ticpartm ents of agriculture
! are scarce. There have been some ap-
plicatlons to the board by creamery
men of the state who have had the
idea that man who can run a cream
cry successfully can teach dairying
The teaching is much more OF a
scientific problem. The graduates of
the agricultural colleges are all given
positions teaching or editing farm pa
pers as fast as they graduate. They
scarcely ever go back to the farms to
do real farming The supply is never
met. In dairying farming as In all
other lines Of farming there is a con-
tinual effort to reach perfection. In
- E1,1 oef IN
the farmer is to get COW that WIN
produce the maximum amount OF
butter fat on the minimum amount OF
feed and at "a minimum expense. Every
year a new standard is set. The de-
partment at Ames does not content 1t
self with teaching how to make butter.
The problem is very much more COM
pick.
IT is believed that the resignation OF
Professor Mckay will be the only
change in the faculty at Ames OF any
consequence this year but with every
change there is the recurring question
of salaries The good men too often are
taken away by other institutions that
pay higher salaries.
LAWYERS seem cutie generally agreed
that there is no way by which a NOM
nation can be made by the various
parties SOFAS to get a name on
! the party ballots at the coming NO
vemher election to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Judge Bishop.
IL there is any legal means provided
| i. has not come TO light and some OF
the hest lawyers have been investigat-
| ing the matter.
! The question is not so extremely
complicated. 1t is recognized that II
nnnfuetion II made ~ this time 1t
must be by tho central committees or
the state convention. The primary
election law is the sole provision by
which party nominations can now be
made in this state. That law pro-
vidcs that the primary election shall be
held on the first Tuesday after the first
AfnnltfsN IN june NJ the even numbered
years 1htrc is NJ provision for CALI
ing special primary elections and since
the election has been held for this
year there is no means of holding an
Other before 1910. That law provides
that Supreme court Judges shall be
nominated at a state convention the
deleg gates to which have been selected
hy "A county convention the delegates