Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-03
STATE BOARD OF
PARDONS BUSY
AS USUAL TILL CASE Is PIECE
DE RESISTANCE BEFORE
Il; r HE BOARD.
LARGE NUMBER OF. OTHER APP.
PLlcATIoNs MAKE PLENTY
III OF WORK.
PARDON GRANTED JOHN D. SMITH
GRAND LARcENY-FRoM
B. MI cASs COUNTY. #s.

@ When the state board of pardons
began its session at the office of the
governor Wednesday afternoon there
We're more than sixty applications for
.clemency to be acted on
The Till case from Pembina coun-
ty was again before the board appli-
cations for pardon for Till having
been several times denied, but
each session of the board the matter
is again presented. D. E. Morden of
Wahpeton, who is greatly interested
in the pardon of Till, is here and has
filed some new afidavits tending to
prove that Till told the truth on the
stand in the trial. One of the aft
dayits filed at this hearing is from
Edward LaMoure of Pembina coun-
ty, who ,corroborates Till's statement
that the. money to buy the revolver
with which it is claimed Miller was
killed with, was given to Till by a.
man named Smith. LaMoure says he
saw Smith give a sum of money to
Till and that afterwards they went to
Prices store and he saw them look
at revolvers. Till said at the trial
that he bought the gun with money
given him by Smith and that Smith
afterwards gave the gun to a man
named Martin. Attorney Tracy Bangs
Of Grand Forks, also appeared for
Till.
Judge Young, now of the firm OF
Ball ], Watson, Young & Lawrence of
Fargo, was prosecuting attorney of
Pembina county at the time of the
Till trial, and he has filed a letter
with the state board of pardons op-
posing the pardon
The matter has been taken under
advisement by the pardon board It
is said the board stands about four
to one for pardon.
The board granted pardon to j.
D.. Smith, sent up from Cass county
for grand larceny. Smith hired a liv-
cry rig and went out into the coun-
| try with his wife in search of work
and turned the rig loose on the prair-
lie, which resulted in his arrest and
| conviction of the crime charged.
Applications for Communication of
sentenced were filed in behalf of D.
NJ Noah, the Ward county murderer,
whose execution on October % was
stayed by an appeal to the supreme
court for a new trial. 1t was gener-
ally believed at the time that the ap-
peal was taken for the purpose of
staying the execution, in order that
an application might ibe taken to the
| board of pardons for communication
| Of zentence.
! Similar applications for commute
ton of sntence have been fieled in be-
half of the Peltiers, who are senten-
ced to death for a murder in Bottin-
eau county, and whose execution is
set to take place in February.
Seth l.. Hartzell, the Cavalier coun-
ty attorney who was sentenced to five
years imprisonment for the killing
of Byron U. Stoddard, and whose SEN
tence was commuted to expire De-
cember l, has been released and has
| applied to the board for restoration
Of citizenship. The Hartzell case has
been before the board several times
| and at the last session of the board
it was agreed TO commute his SEN
tence in order that he. might be re-
leased by Christmas time His SEN
tence would have expired within a
month. HartzelI was a visitor at the
capitol Tuesday after his release to
file his application for restoration of
| citizenship.