The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13
CULVER BOY
IS PAROLED
NATHANIEL CANDY SEN
TENCED IN 1904 is RE-
LEASED.
Twelve Persons Have Been Par
doned or Paroled by Cover
nor Marshall.

| the Indiana RefOrmatOry, have
been pardoned or paroled by
Governor Marshall, as a result of
recommendations made by the
state board of pardons in its APP
ril meeting. In the list are two
"lifers," sentenced for murder
Dora Bartlett, of Terre Haute,
and Thomas Hobbs OF Perry
county.
| Hobbs was sentenced for life,
with his son, from Perry county.
February rs, 1887, for murde'
which occurred at a picnic which
the Hobbs family were attending.
t was represented to the pardon
Board that all the principals in
the affair were intoxicated.
TIE Bartlett woman kept re-
sort ii Terre Haute, and shot ami
| killed visitor to the place when
he flourished revolver and
threatened to shoot. Her plea
was self-defense. She was sem
fenced to the woman's prison
May 90, 1902. She has been pa
rolled.
Pardons were granted to the
following: George Salter, color
ed, sentenced for from one to
fourteen years to the Indiana re-
forniatory from Clark county tor
rrand larceny. He was taken ID
the reformatory in February
1908. and was paroled May "a,
1904.
Leslie Durham was sentenced
to the Indiana reformatOrv from
r ountain City, February 22. 1906,
for assault and battery with in
tent to Kill. Durham. who was
4 cripple. shot Holland with {
small caliber revolver, inflictinc
a slight flesh wound. He was
sentenced for from two to four
teen years.
Paroles were granted the fol-
lowing:
Thomas B. Mccormick, SEN
fenced to the state reformatory
from Laporte county May z, 1903
for grand larceny. Mccormick
has a brother in the newspaper
business in Ohio, ,and it was large
ly through the activities OF this
brother that the parole was
granted.
Andrew Morris, sentenced
from Clay county November 9,
1907. for criminal assault; with
Morris was sentenced Louis Ru-
ellie who was paroled last Janu-
ary. Morris is 10 years old.
Ralph Drake, sentenced for life
from Bartholomew county in Oc-
tober 1894, for murder in the sec
ond degree. brakes crime was
found by the board OF pardons 20
have been caused by intoxicants
and infatuation for a woman.
Nathaniel Candy, sentenced to
the sta: reformatory from Mar
shall cornty, November IA, 1904,
'oi from two to fourteen years
for criminal assault.
G. A. Carver. sentenced to the
Irjiaaa reformatory from Elk
hart county, October 81, 1909
for forgery.
Earl ze, sentenced to = Il
diana reformatory in February
1908. for criminal assault. The
board found that Boze was the
victim of drink, and that he was
bearing all the punishment io-
crime in which he had only
small part.
George Cambron, an insane
prisoner at the state prison, who
was sentenced for from two to
twenty-one years for manslaugh-
ter. Cambron is wanted at the
Southern Illinois reiormatory for
violation of parole, and will be
arrested on this charge at the
state prison door.
William Wellir~ sentenced to
the Indiana relormatory from
Henry county, March 25, 1905.
Mrs. yelling represented to the
board that it was she instead of
her husband who committed the
crime for which Yelling was SEM
fenced. The woman. was sem
fenced with her husband and
sentence was suspended.
The pardon board refused to
recommend executive clemency
for Carl Farina, sentenced to the
state prison for manslaughter
fifteen months ago. after killing a |
Greek. who, he believed, had at
tempted to ALLEVIATE his wife's al
fections.
Among fifteen other cases in
which clemency was denied were
those of William Lotus, SEN
fenced from Lake county for con-
sDiracv to commit a felony |
Thomas Davidson, sentenced
from Whitley county il 1890 for
murder in the first degree, and
Jesse Sluder sentenced for life
from Clay county April 10, 1906, |
for murder.
The recommendations of the
pardon board were carried out by |
the governor in every case.