Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-15
SOUGHT
 BY MANY PRISONERS
Petitions Presented from Those Sen tenced from Eastern Part of State.

BY MANY PRISONERS. Petitions Presented from Those Sen tenced from Eastern Part of State.
 Fifty-four serving sentences in the Connecticut state prison. have made known through petitions filed that they would like to be pardoned from the institution. Fifty of these are men and four are women, and among the latter the name of Kate Cobb ap- pears, The board of pardons will meet on the second Monday of June tu con slider the petitions. Twenty one of those who apply have applied before and have had an appearance before the board of pardon. Under rule which the board has, a prisoner may apply for pardon as often as the board sits, but he can have but one appearance before the board in person, and con- sequently those who nave applied be- before the board cannot appear in person at the next session on June 10. 10.
 Twenty three of the ffty-four who apply are serving life sentences for 1 murder and some of these have applied many times before, John Warren, who Is now 74 years old and who las been in prison flfty-three years, ,ong- CT than any person now confined in this country. makes a petition for the eighth time. Kate Cobb, who is 63 years old, applies for the second | time. She has been in prison thirty | three years. James F. Taylor and Henry B. Chamberlain. each of whom | have been in prison twenty five years, have petitioned, each for the l twenty fourth time. Taylor is A l years old and Chamberlain AT years l old John Dynes, who is 57 years old makes application for the twenty | third time. He was committed to the prison in 1887.
 | Petitions from all parts of the state ] include.
 New London County. i Harry Wilson, alias Nathan Palmer l gives but one reason for especial con | sideration, that is, if pardoned he will marry the girl he assaulted, the as- | sault being the cause of his being | put away. The girl was under 1f | years old. He was sentenced for from 1 ten to twenty years on September r i 1907.
 Charles H. Chapman is another who says that he is innocent On June 6, 1906, he was sentenced for from | ten to twenty years for burglary ir Chesterfield.
 Amasa D. Maine, sentenced on Sep l tember 8, 1911, for from one to two 1 years for stealing poultry in Nortt l Stcnington is GA years old and asks to be freed as he says that he is in- noeent. He has been in prison twice 1 before
 Daniel Gore 19 years old, has beer ln prison since January 23, of this year, serving a sentence of from ont to three years for d criminal assault upon a woman in Norwich. He tell. that he had a good character ana l reputation before being arrested fol the crime for which he is serving sen. tence and he says: "The doubt pre-. vailing in Norwich of his guilt i. strikingly emphasized by the converse. tion that occurred between the fore man of the jury and the trial cour immediately after the verdict wa rendered. the details of which will b, placed before the board of pardons
 Addie Burns, who is 50 years old was sentenced on January 2S, 1908 for from twelve to twenty years fo being the principal in the second de gree and accessory before the fact il a crime in which a young girl unde the age of 16 years was involved. He attorney will state her case, she says in her petition.
 | Windham County.
 Harry Chippendale was sentencet on May IT, 1910, for from three u six years for manslaughter. His pros eCution followed the death of a younj woman on whom a criminal operation had been performed, and the physician who performed the operation diet aboIIf the saTOp tiTma as fba cripl Jia Chippendale was said to be respons ible for the woman's condition. H says that he rendered valuable ser vice to the state and that he pleade, guilty to save the state from expense He says that he did not know tha he was committing a crime, and tha it was not his fault that the physician died. He says that he had beel promised a jail sentence and he think that the promise made to him shoul have been carried out
 TOllland County.
 The petition of John Warren is tn only one filed by prisoner sentence in Holland county. Among 1the things he says that he has "learne his lesson and that he will never agai commit crime"
 Mddlesex County.
 Cora Weir was sentenced on Apr 6. 1910, for from three to five years for enticing a woman into an i'm moral house in East Hampton Sh says that her parents are old an need her support and she believe that she has been sufficiently pun ishcd- She is 36 years old.
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