Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-24
GIRL Wins PAROLE
Brother Sentenced for Eighty
Years to Be Released.
HARVEY WHITT0N'S CASE
Blind Sister Prevails Upon Gov.
Norris of Montana.
FORMER WASHINGTON Boy
Has Served Twelve Years Already
for Being Accomplish
of Murderer.
CORNER WASHINGTON Boy

| Harvey Wilton, a former Washington
boy, who was convicted Of murder in the
second degree and has served nearly
twelve years in the penitentiary in Mon
| tana, is soon to be paroled and returned
to his blind sister, Miss Dolly Whitton,
| who is an inmate Of the Young Women
Christian Home on c street northwest.
He was sentenced to eighty years at hard
labor and was only twenty-one years OF
age when he began serving his term
Gov. Norris of Montana, before leaving
Washington. where he attended the recent
governors conference, promised Wilton
blind sister that he would do all he could
to have her brother paroled.
Wilton was convicted as an accom-
plice of a desperate who shot q deputy
sheriff and escaped. Whitton was in his
company at the time, and while the des-
perado held up the sheriff Wilton took
| the sheriffs guns and also his money
when he was directed to do so by Nor
gan. the desperado, who had just killed
the deputy accompanying the sheriff.
His Mother Kept Secret.
Harvey Wilton was born in Brookland
in 1876. He was fond of reading dime
novels and they lured him to the west.
He went away in 1893. His wild
owed mother was the only person
In Washington to know of his
troubles in Montana, but before she died
she impaired the secret to his sisters and
later some of his friends found it out.
It is largely through the efforts Of his
friends and the friends of his sisters that
Wilton will get his liberty.
Years ago, when l was nothing but
girl going to school, said Miss Whit
ton, talking of the case. II loved my
brother better than any one in the world.
Since / became blind / have had more
time to think of him and what his re-
lease will mean. Just to have my brother
in my arms once again would make me
the happiest girl in the world.
''All day long l sit and wonder If the
authorities will give my brother his lib
erty and he will come to me, who loves
him SO much. We always were COM
panions, and 1 haven't passed a happy
moment since he left. For years l did
not know where he was, and that added
to my misery and uncertainty
While Wilton was in the penitentiary
he wrote statement of his case and sent
it to person in Washington who is
working for his release.
Whitton's Statement.
0AAo ~ shC StoiS, Hc iCII w d6i.
ington In 1893, and two years later met
a man named Frank Morgan, and located
with him on a small ranch near Boze-
man, Mont. Morgan got into a fight with
another rancher and struck him on the
head with the butt of his revolver. 4
warrant was issued for his arrest. and
Morgan escaped into another county,
where he stayed with friend. Whitton
visited Morgan to discuss some matters
relating to the ranch. He also informed
Morgan that the sheriff was following
him, and advised him either to leave at
once or surrender without making trouble.
Before Morgan left. the sheriff and his
deputy, Jack Allen, arrived. and Morgan,
in offering resistance. killed the deputy.
He then Informed Wilton that under
the laws of the state Whitton was an
accomplice, and advised him to join him
in his flight. They had gone only
short distance when they ran into the
sheriff. and while Morgan covered him
with shotgun, WhittOn, at Morgans
suggestion, took the sheriff's gun and
money.
Morgan escaped, and on the advice of
friends Wilton left him and. changing
his name to Jack Hall, went to Nevada
to live. He was arrested and taken to
Montana. where he was tried for murder
in the first degree. He was convicted of
murder in the second degree and sem
fenced to serve eighty years at hard la
Dor. Morgan has never been captured.
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