The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-29
FREEDOM FOR 100
CONvCTS; FORTS
PLAN UNDER TEST.
Pard0ns Court Paroles Eighty
Prisoners, and VIII Re-
lease Fifty Later.
BOSSCHIETER SLAYERS
MUST STAY IN PRISON
kerr's Case to Get Further Con-
sideratiOn-Dr. Thompson
Let G0-Essex Paroles.
Especial to the Evening start

lSpecidl lo the E4NenlnE star.
TRENTON, Dec. 29.-In the freeing of
$50 convicts. Governor Forts Court of
Pardons has placed into startling effect
his plan to relieve the crowded eondl-
ton at the State Prison. The parole of
eighty of the convicts was ordered at Il
session OF the court yesterday after
noon, and fifty more will be released
under the same law at an adjourned
meeting of the court.
The Cour of Pardons usually releases
only about twenty-five convicts at n
session, but the recent Endorsement of
the National Prison Congress and the
State prison authorities. and the urging
of Governor Fort for more room In the
prison, led the court to vastly increase
the number paroled.
This action of the Court of Pardons
is expected to provide a final test of the
parole system, the result will be closely
watched.
The most noteworthy among the con-
victs who sought pardon were the fou
men sentenced for life for the Jennie
Bosschieter murder in Paterson. They
were Andrew j. Campbell, William A.
Death, Walter McAllister n George
j. Kerr. The applications of the first
three were considered and refused and
the application OF Kerr was put over
for consideration at the adjourned
meeting
Practically the only long-term pris-
oner to be paroled yesterday was DIR.
Reuben p. Thompson, of Monmouth
county, who was serving eighteen years.
In 1901 he was convicted of causing the
death of a newly born infant, whose
body he threw into a lake. The case
attracted wide attention at the time.
Among the conVicts paroled were:
Essex County-Clarence Bean, for
gerry, sentenced in 1907 to three years;
Michael Caputo, assault and battery,
1907. three years; George Clark, lar
ceny, 1905, five years; Nicholas DELTA
toro, assault and battery. 1905, five
years; Timothy Gilchrist, assault and
battery, 1907, three years; Thomas La
Page. forgery. 1907, five years.; John IL.
McKeogh. larceny. 1907, two years; An
tonic P~etrucelli, Juvenile delinquency,
1906, three years; Joseph p. Quinn
bigamy, 1908 two years; Rafael Sarno,
assault and battery. 1907, two years;
William George Seaman, bigamy, 1908,
two years; John Stevens, breaking and
entering, 1905, five years; George Will
Jams, false p~retenses, 1905, five years.
Essex County Penitentiary-Danlel
Leary, manslaughter, sentenced 1908,
one year: Jennie Lentz, -manslaughter,
1908. one year
Hudson-James Brady, abuse, 1905,
five years; Pasquale Capellano, abuse,
1902. ten years; John Davis, carrying
l,,ro1o,. SC toO1c 1Qn2 gpNpn wears n
SO. 900 inc; Ernest Edwards, breaking,
1900. twelve years: Thomas Giblin,
breaking and entering. 1907, twenty-one
years; Samuel Hawley, breaking and
entering, 1906, three years; Henry john
son, carrying burglars tools, 1903, seven
years; Lloyd Ledford, larceny. 1906,
three years: Percy J. O'Brien, breaking
and entering, 1907. three years; Charles
Smith, carrying burglars tools, 1903,
seven years; James Weston, false pre-
tense, 1908, two years.; Timothy
Sweeney, robbery, 1907, three years.
Passaic-George A. Armstrong. lar
aeny. sentenced. 1904. six years.; James
Davidson. robbery, 1902, twelve years;
Peter Dooley. assault, 1904, twelve
years; Rose Healey. unlawful relation,
1908. two years; Edith Hcaley, man.
slaughter, 1904, seven years; John
Spittelo, assault and battery, 1904, six
years; James Tobias, robbery, 1904, six
years; Alfonso Wehrell. %assaulting
woman and child. 1903, seven years; Re
becca Cummings, intent to kill, 1908,
one year.
Union-Charles Ferdio, m~anslaughter,
sentenced, 1907. three years; Alfred p.
Smalley, burglary, 1905, five years.