The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-13
DAVID C. WEEKS RELEASED FROM LIFE SENTENCE
Boinay's Accompiice Pardoned Abe LebanthaI Also Re- leased Other PardonS Granted

Hartford, Dec. 13.-At the close of its semi-annual hearing yesterday, the board of pardons voted to release three prisoners as follows:
 Abraham Lebenthal, sentenced m Fairfield county. October 27, 1909, to from two to five years for theft.
 David c. Weeks, sentenced Febru- ary 15, 1898, in Fairfield county to life Imprisonment for murder in the second degree.
 Robert L. Hebden, sentenced in Hartford, March 2, 1910, to from one to two years for breaking and enter ing in the night season. His pardon is conditions upon the fact that the United States government shall de- port him to England, whence he came. .r.ts. ay
 Weeks was the accomplice of Charles A. Boinay who, in 1897, at- tempted to rob the house of a man named Nichols in Trumbull, and who at that time killed Nichols and executed for his crime and Weeks, his brother-in-law, who was hardly more than a boy then, has been in prison since. Lebenthal was released when Warden Garvin and Prison Physician Fox said that he is suffer ing from an incurable disease and was brought into the prison on a stretcher and has been in the prison hospital ever since.
 When Morris W. Seymour of the board told Mrs. Lebenthal, good looking young woman, of the action of the board, she kissed him with a good deal of enthusiasm and to his evident embarrassment
 Litchfield County.
 No one appeared for George Bar den, convicted in 1907 and sentenced from eight to ten years for assaul. with intent to commit rape. He $ now insane.
 of breaking and entering in three counts, and sentenced to from two to seven years, said he was drunk when the crime was committed.
 Fairfield County,
 Joseph Fallanca, sentenced in 1906 to life Imprisonment for murder, withdrew his application, as did Frederick Ferris, sentenced in 1907 to from twelve to sixteen years for an indecent act, but Assistant States At torney Galen A. Carter asked that it might be continued instead, which was done.
 Albano Fortora, sentenced in 1908 to from one to five years for assault with intent to kill, said the shooting for which he was convicted was acci- dental
 No one appeared for John Hawley, sentenced in 1892 to life imprison- ment for murder.
 Salvatore Iemma sentenced in 1909 to from ten to fourteen years for as. sault with intent to murder, was not represented.
 Bernard Simons, sentenced for in- decent assault in 1907 to from three and one-half to six years. said he was not guilty and that he did not have a fair trial. States Attorney Carter said the man was undoubtedly guilty.
 Rania Salvatore, sentenced in 1909 to from ten to fourteen years for as. sault with intent tomurder, said ne did not commit the crime. He was unable to speak English and told his story by the aid of an interpreter. Since his conviction, he said, the man who committed the crime has been discovered.
 to from ten to fifteen years for rape, said he was not guilty. The applica- ton was opposed by Mir. Carter
 No one appeared for Rudolph Stof- file, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1889 for murder.
 Henry William, sentenced in 1908 to from five to ten years for burg lary and assault, said he did not have fair trial, and that he was drunk when the crime was committed. Some of the county officials. he said, had conspired against him. They had, Foster of Bridgeport, to withdraw from the case, after he had paid Fos- ter S100 for a retainer.
 MT. Carter said he had no knowI- edge as to Williams trial. He re- membered however, that Williams was one of the men who robbed Mark Twain's house in Bedding.
 David c. Weeks sentenced to life imprisonment in 1898, said he was sorry for his wrong doing and would lead an industrious life if released He was represented by Lawyer J. B. Klein of Bridgeport who said that Weeks was implicated in the crime for which Charles Boinay was ex- ecuted about twelve years ago. Weeks