Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-07-14
THREE PARDONS
ARE GRANTED.
BODY TO CONSIDER CASE OF
JOHN QUIRk, WHO SHOT A
LOCAL NEWSPAPERMAN.
MANY APPLY FOR A HEARING
Life Prisoner Who Supported Mother
by Working Overtime Remains.
Father Travels Far to- In
tercede for His Boy.

Minneapolis, July 12-Three condi
tional pardons were granted, one SEN
tence was committed, two cases were
passed to be taken up today and three
cases were continued until the meet
ing in October by the state board Of
pardons which met at the governors
office. There were 46 cases in all
considered by the board.
The case Of John P. Quirk, sentenc-
ed in Minneapolis in January, 1907,
for the shooting of William DoWell, a
newspaper man, was passed and will
be decided at the meeting today. An
examination of Quirk was made by
physicians at the state prison to de-
termine whether or not he was suffer
ing from tuberculosis as was claimed
DR.. Merrill, the prison physician, re-
ported to the board that he found no
traces of tuberculosis. This was the
second examination made by DR.. Mer-
rill.
Myra Williams Pardoned.
Myra James Williams, sentenced
from Grow Wing county, December
26, 1903, for life, on charge of throw
ing her two-year-old child into the
river, was granted conditional par
don.
Robert G. Keefe, sentenced from
Minneapolis April 6, of this year, to
Saltwater for one year on a charge
of forgery in the second degree, was
granted pardon on the condition that
ing but one arm she is unable to sup
port herself. Keefe forged check for
$12 at a time, when he was out of
work and his resources were gone.
Robert O. Day, now on parole, was
granted conditional pardon permit
in Wisconsin who will care for him.
Day was sentenced from Hennepin
county September %, 1905, to the state
reformatory after having been found
guilty of robbery in the first degree.
The sentence of Thomas O. Oren
was committed from ten to three years
Oren was sentenced in Faribault coun-
ty on a charge of arson in the first
degree. He is said to have set fire
to his house during the night when his
wife and two children were asleep.
A petition signed by many men in
Faribault county was presented to the
board.
The case of Sever Sickness, commit
ted to Saltwater in 1900, from Roseau
county, after having plead guilty to
charge of murder in the first degree,
was passed and will be taken up later.
Sickness killed a man named Milling.
Mrs. Sickness appeared before the
board to urge her husbands release.
The cases of George Brown, serving
a sentence for robbery, Samuel Phil
lips, serving sentence for grand lar
ceny and Ole Engebretson, of Pope
county, were continued.
Man Earns Money in Prison.
The board did not take favorable
action in the case of Andrew Void,
who has already served 81 years of
his life sentence for having killed
man named Hagen, while out thresh-
ing near Breckenridge, Mimi. Since
his incarceration Void has continually
ment at the prison and has saved
money with which he supported his
mother in Norway until her death
some years ago.
Chief Justice Start showed that he
was loathe to consider cases where
no.
term.
G. G. Haupt, of Minneapolis, was
presenting the case of Ole o. Myhre
who is serving a sentence for attempt
ed murder and it was brought out
that Myhre was serving his second
term in prison.
THAT ends it as far as I am con-
cerned," said the chief justice.
Edward Ditmore, now serving his
second term in prison also applied for
pardon which was not granted. He
was sentenced from Hennepin county
to serve IS years for robbery.
George Mahan killed his wife in St.
Paul five years ago, and was sentenc.
ed to Saltwater for life. Every six
months since his Imprisonment his
aged fathe" has journeyed from Ar.
kansas, where he keeps hotel, to see
his boy. He has had the case brought
before the pardon board every time
that it was possible.
Among the other differs" who ap.
piled were: Axel Lindroos, John Tan.
ko, Theodore Sites, Alexander Nc.
Kenzie, Bishop Dorsey, Phillip Rice,
John Weller, John Soular and William
Vorrill. ~
AUTO MOTOR BOAT BURNED UP.