Arizona republican., 1910-11-29
PARDON GRANTED ID
 FRANK SH|NDELBOWER YOUNG BELIEVES HIS PUNISH
 MENT SUFFICIENT Acting Governor Took Action Only After Making Thorough investi-
 oation of Case

By the tears of heart broken
 mother and the earnest appeal oI 35O
 citizens who believe that the lad has
 been sufficiently punished for his loIime, Acting Governor George U
 Young has been induced to sign a
 pardon for FranK Shindelbowcr, Ih..
 eighteen year -old boy who was con
 victed last May of swearing falsely
 that he had bought liquor at the
 Casino saloon. and who was given
 an indeterminate sentence of from
 one to fourteen years in the peniten-
 tiary.
 Shindelbower was convicted May
 15, the charge being perjury. The case probably caused greater feeling in the
 community than any that was ever
 before the court of this judicial dis
 trict. A determined fight was made
 by the anti saloon element to prevent
 the defendants conviction but all
 their efforts were without avail.
 A charge was made by certain lead CTS of the Anti Saloon league that | liquor had been sold to minors at the Casino saloon, then conducted by the | Phoenix Amusement company, and
 that the license of the concern should | be revoked. The matter was carried
 before Judge Kent and Frank Shin delbower was one of the witnesses introduced by the complainants. He | swOre that on the evening of March | II he had bought whisky at the Casino. Largely upon his testimony the license was revoked.
 Soon thereafter ShindeIbower was arrested on the perjury charge. H. Langston was engaged by the anti Saloon league as his attorney and legal war was waged. Shin delbower was convicted and even then his friends did not cease their ef- forts. A stay of sentence was se- cured for several days. in order that witnesses to prove that he really ! bought the liquor could be produced ! One witness, upon whom the de- | fense relied largely. disappeared and has not since been heard from.
 The Shindelbower case became a | topic of discussion in pulpits, homes. | clubs and everywhere that people csn- gregated. Arguments pro and con be- came. in many cases, exceedingly bit | ter.
 after a long fight, Shindelbower was sentenced May 15 and few days later was taken to the penitentiary. | He maintained to the last that he had not sworn falsely
 During the summer, while Sec | retary Young was acting governor petition asking for Shindelbowers | pardon was presented to him. He 4 had been deeply interested in the case from the first but declined to issue a pardon without making a Il thorough investigation.
 At his own expense MT. Young II went to Florence and interviewed the prisoner. The questions of the act II ing governor and Shindelbower's an swers were taken down by a stenog- II rapher. transcribed and later MT. Young went over it all. At every II point ShindelbOwer bore out the tes- timony he had given at his trial. II His story had not changed in the slightest degree.
 About the time MT. Young com pleted his investigation and had de- cided that Shindelbower had been sufficiently punished by the shame of his conviction and his brief incar- ceration, Governor Sloan returned. The matter seems to have been drop ped at that point. but two or three days ago it was taken up again. Wednesday morning a petition bear ing $50 names was presented by At torney Langston to MT. Young, who had again become acting governor by virtue of Governor Sloan's absence in the east.
 Yesterday afternoon at two o'clock Mir. Young signed the proclamation of pardon that made Frank Shin delbower free to return to his mother. his father. his little sisters and brothers. The document is cold and formal, merely stating that Shindel- bower is granted a free and uncon- ditional pardon, with the full rights of 
 But this proclamation was not the first drawn up by MT. Young. The first, which he decided not to pub fish, will never meet the eyes of any except a few personal friends. Could it be given the public it would prove very enlightening. In it the acting . governor did not mince words. At some length he explained why he thought ShindelbOwers punishment sufficient and expressed hope that the boys case might prove a warn ing to the factions whose hostility toward each other had been basically for all his troubles. 1t was a unique document, full of hu