Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-25
GETS FREEDOM AS PRESENT
Long.Term Convict is Found Not
Guilty of Murder.
GOVERNORS USE PARDON POWER
Guards of Indiana state Prison
Present Life Man with Gold
watch when They wish
Him Goodbye.


NEW YORK. Dec. IA Christmas
present 10 John Boehman OF brooklyn to-
day was tho dismissal Of charges which
will lead to his release from Sing Sing
after sixteen years' service on conviction
FOR murder OF which the supreme court
now finds him to be innocent
The necessary testimony was supplied
by two men who kept silent at a time
when he needed them to prove an alabl
because. they said, they were afraid OF
being bounded by the police
While In Sing Sing, Boehman. SEN
fenced for life. met a doctor imprisoned
on a minor charge. who promised TO aid
him when released. and as n result OF the
doctors activities recently the necessary
witnesses were found-the proprietor and
bartender OF a music hall, each Of whom
has made an affidavit that Doehman was
In their place at the time the crime was
committed.
Richeson Receives Presents.
BOSTON, Dec. 2i.-with his physical
condition apparently improving, Christ
mas gifts and flowers coming to him
from friends and Christmas dinner
promised by two OF his former parish
iNANiat ANNNs AAaitilft " - hitntHOU ndu
much to make his day cheerful In the
Charles street Jail today.
Tonight Hicheson's physician reported
him as recovering rapidly from the self
Inflicted injuries OF Wednesday. and the
district attorneys office said that every
thing seemed favorable for the beginning
Of his trial on January IS on the charge
Of murder Of Miss Avis Linnell.
one Of Richeson's gifts today came from
his former fiahcee. Miss Violet Edmunds
Of Brookiine. II was a large box said to
contain fruit and CONNECTIONS.
ConVIcts Freed.
HusrfN, Tex. Dec. 4.-Twenty-flve
convicts VIII leave the Rusk ana Huntsville
penltentiaries as free men on Christmas
morning as the result OF Governor Col
quilts exercise OF the pardonlng power.
PaFoIcd for Christmas.
OKLAHOMA CITY, okl., Dec. "a
Robert s. waltham, ife-term
prisoner in the Oklahoma penitentlary,
will spend his third Christmas on parole
with his family at Sulphur. Governor
Cruce today granted waltham a thirty
day leave OF absence" Three short
term prisoners were given pardons.
PRrdOned Man Receives Gift.
MICHIGAN CITY. Ind. Dec. 2i,-Guards
OF tho Indiana state prison presented Ed
ward Aszman, pardoned life man" with
a gold watch when they babe him good
bye and WISHED him a Merry Christmas"
today. Aszman had served twenty years
He departed for Cincinnati TO Join his
widowed daughter and her children.
Prisoners Discharged.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2a.-The Christmas
spirit melted the heart OF Judge Klmmel
In police court today.
In effect he said:
Good morning, prisoners. You're all
Seventeen defendants were in court 10
answer peace disturbance and minor
charges. In every case Judge KimmeI
discharged the accused, saying
christmas Is at hand 1 don't want
to be responsible for any poor unfortunate
spending Christmas behind the bars"
TweRty-six ParoIed.
MONTGOMERY. Ala, Dec 2l.--Gover-
nor Emmett O'Neil today paroled twenty
six convicts and paroled from twenty 70
ninety days four others, as his Christmas
gift to Alabama prisoners. Those paroied
had been convicted OF crimes ranging
from robbery to murder.