The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-04-27
NO PARDON FOR STRIPPING.
Governor of Georgia, I'm Announce
ing Course, ENcoriateS Mob Nio-
IenCe and Piralc Ncnpence

renee ana pIratc tcngence.
Atlanta, Ga. April %. In de-
nying the application for pardon
filed by Thomas Edgar Stripping,
former police chief of Danville, Va,
under sentence of life Imprisonment
for the murder of William J. Cor
nett, Gov. Brown in Il review of the
case made public tonight, excori-
ates the "unwritten law" which
STRIPPING pleaded in justification of
his act as euphemism, presenting,
when unmasked, the hideous fea-
lures of anarchy"
one of the most dangerous evils
menacing our Institutions is lawless-
ness,' declares the governor. THE
mob executing in wild disorder it's
victim and the individual wreaking
his own revenge for wrongs real or
imaginary, the man or interest treat
ing with contempt the laws of the
land and trusting to gold or in
lluence' for safety, are striking man.
ifestations of this spirit OF lawless-
ness"
Sorry for Family.
While expressing profound SYM
pathy for Striplings family and
high respect for the impulses which
prompted his friends to apply for a
pardon for him, Gov. Brown says
sympathy and personal friendship
nave no right to supplant an oath
bound duty to execute the laws of
Georgia.
Above the rolling tide and OBJ
scurlng fog of sympathetic pleas
and emotions we cannot fail to see
the rock of the record which shows
that Thomas Edgar Stripping. by a
Jury of his peers, was convicted CT
tne murder OF a fellow man." con-
tlnues the governor, that he af-
terwards violated a second law of
georgia by breaking Jail and fleeing
to another State, and that, enmesh.
ed in the complications of his
crime, his own brother-in-law, Ter
rell Huff, was sent to the peniten-
tlary, where he was confined at
hard labor until, through doubts as
or his guilt he was set free on re-
commendation of the prison commits
sion. l greatly regret. therefore,
that under the conditions | do not
feel justified in interrupting in this
case the due process of the law"
Discusses Later Record.
GOV. Brown discusses Stripling's
life after he broke Jail in 1897,and
does not find it sufficiently spotless
to entitle him to a pardon and con-
Iihueu ilDeTty as MS Trends mad
hoped. Not one man in several
hundred kills man." says the gov
ernor. Not one man in five thou
sand Kills two men and intentional
ly wounds another, and, while an Of
flcer of the law, is fined once for
opprobibus language (prOfanity)
and once for violence, towards yet
another man. But this is Strip
ling's record since he killed Cornett.
! do not say that he was not within
the scope of his duties in each of
the tragic incidents marking his
career since he fled from this
state; but | submit that they i'm
pair the power to claim that his
life in Virginia is above suspicion
and. per Sc, entities him to a par
don in Georgia"
STRIPPING Keeps Silence
Columbus, Ga, April 22.-Thom-
as Edgar Stripping, former chief of
police of Danville, Va, who is con-
fined in the county Jail here await
The outcome of his petition for par
don for the killing Of VIM. ]. Cor
nett, was informed tonight that the
governor had declined to approve
the recommendation of pardon by
the prison commission. Stripping
dlsplayed no emotion and when ask
ed II he had any comment, merely
replied: Il have nothing to say"