Arizona republican., 1910-06-22
ADMIRABLE NERVE
 IF HARRY OLIVER HE IS ALREADY FIGURING ON
 FREEDOM. The Foreer Has Made an Application
 for Freedom.

Amid all of his tribulatiOns, Harry Oliver has kept his nerve. Oliver IS the young man who was arrested last fall for the robbery in a lodging house in this city of a young English man whose acquaintance he had formed while on the way from Los An geles to Phoenix. Oliver was brought back from Prescott, where he was talk en into custody on the day following the robbery.
 His victim could not afford to re- main here as a prosecuting witness His time was too valuable for that and he preferred to sacrifice the money he had lost, about $100.
 Oliver, however, did not know of the intentions of the Englishman, other wise he would not have tried to com init another crime. He entered into a conspiracy with Gene Daly and the Big Swede to break jail. They sue ceeded only in technically ''injuring the jail," which is a felony.
 All were indicted for that, but the Swede and Daley had something else to be tried for The authorities count ed upon the conviction only of Oliver for the damage to the jail.
 But the jury was to be reckoned with and Oliver, who was a plausible and well dressed young fellow, made a favorable impression on the hen who held his fate in the hollow of their hands and they acquitted him on the testimony of himself and his com panions implicated in the same crime.
 Sheriff Hayden in the meantime had been educating himself regarding the record of Oliver He had learned that he had done time in the Ohio peniten- tiary for murder and that he had com mitted not less than a half dozen for geries in Los Angeles shortly before coming to Phoenix. The sheriff had notified the Los Angeles authorities of the presence of Oliver in the county jail and had advised them to be pre- pared to eXtradite him if there should be a miscarriage of justice here.
 Accordingly, as soon as the jury had returned the verdict of acquttal, Oli- yer was taken into custody on the re- quest of the Los Angeles authorities. It was useless to resist and Oliver ad- mitted that he had left some financial misunderstanding behind him when he had quietly departed from the coast. He said he would not resist his removal to California, and he did not.
 He was indicted there on a single one of the six forgeries, a case in which the Security Savings company was the loser He pleaded guilty to the indictment and was sentenced to the penitentiary.
 Sheriff Hayden was astounded yes terday morning when he received letter from A. c. DOdds, probation of ficer at Los Angeles, saying that the prisoner had made application for a parole.
 Paroles are granted or recommended when it appears that the applicant is guilty of an error of the head rather than of the heart; when he has com mitted a single offense under strong prOvocation of strong temptations; when l it appears that there is an equal chance of making a useful citizen or a hardened criminal of him.
 The probation officer wanted to know about the applicant, and the sheriff also received a letter from the Security Savings company saying that it was the belief of the management of that institution that society would be safer with Oliver in the peniten- tiary. The sheriff shared that opinion and so informed the probation off cer