The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-25
GOVERNOR COMER PARDONS CONNECTS Record for the Month Is
 Fifty BALDWIN SCHOOL LAWS President Eliot of Harvard College Will Visit Montgomery March 2 and B.
 He May Also Come to
 Birmingham.
BALDWIN SCHOOL LAWS

Montgomery, December 24-(SpeciaL)- Because of illness, incapaeity to render service, for other causes and nearness of end of terms, Governor B. B. Conner to- day extended clemency to IS prisoners, cne being allowed only 30 days to go home and see his parents, and one, sometime ago paroled, being restored to his civil rights. These with the 37 earlier in the week. make a record of pardons for one month, so far as it is known, the total being 50.
 Glen Havis, who killed man named La tham in the Florence hotel in Bir- mingham in 1903, and who has a term of P and a half years, is given a month to be with his parents in Birmingham His mother has worked hard to get him released, and those who remember the yo ung fellow are glad to know that he will be given this much even of a rest. Nolan Gresham, of Lauderdale county. who was paroled six months ago, is the man to have civil rights restored.
 The pardons and paroles of today fol- lew:
 Fritz Braun, Jefferson county, sentenced March 1908, one year for grand larceny. His conduct has been good.
 Fannie Mccullough, Randolph county, sentenced April 29, 1907, two years for manslaughter, conduct satisfactory.
 Walter Franklin, Jefferson county, sen fenced November, 1905, four years for bigamy, bad physical condition
 H. Lee Russell, Mobile county, March,
  good.
 B. H. Dedrick, Jefferson county, fall 19O5 seven years for miscegenation; has suffered severely
 Henry Lewis, Jefferson county, grand larceny, April 1908, one year, conduct good.
 Virgil Swan, Macon county, October, 1s07 IS months for mansaughter con duct good.
 1907, two and half years for false pre- terse. Good conduct.
 Leona Jones, Jefferson county, June 20. 1908, one year for grand larceny, time almost up.
 Jeffe Rhodes Hale county, April 22. 1898, life for murder, has served sixteen years and made model prisoner. James Lancaster, Randolph county, Feb ruary 23 1907, three years for manslaugh- ter, conduct good.
 Baldwin School Laws. | In an opinion given to State Superin- tendent of Education H. c. Gunnels, At torney General A. M. Garber holds that the members of the board of education of Baldwin county hold office at the will of the state superintendent and not for life, as might have been thought. He l also holds that the new redistricting law does not apply to Baldwin county, but that the old local act Is in force. Under this act Baldwin county's levys the high est local tax for schools of any county in the state.
 Bad Negro Is Free.
 Tom Benjamin. known to the officers as one of the most desperate negroes in the state, has again escaped, this time from the Dothan jail. Some time since he got away from Dothan, came to Montgomery county and after terrorizing the negroes in the neighbor hood of McGehees Switch, was caught by the sheriff of Montgomery. After demand was made for him he was sent back to Dothan. A sharp lookout IS DtllS htpl lOI nun III liiiS StSiioii, do he is very much feared by the other ne- groes.
 President Eliot Is Coming.
 President Charles w. Eliot of Harvard, will be in Montgomery with Mrs. Eliot on March and 8, coming from New Orleans. After an address and a short visit he will go to Birmingham for a short stop. While in Montgomery Dr. ! Eliot will be the guest of Major and Mrs R. E. Steiner. Both Major Steiner and his son, R. E. Steiner, Jr., graduated at Harvard and they are very happy to have this distinguished educator to be with them.