The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1913-09-26
MEETS SON
OF JUDGE
Who Sentenced Him To Life
In Penitentiafy
John TabOFn Who Served 43
Years In Prison
Pays A Visit To His Old Home
In DelwaFe
Where He Found Things
Changed Very Much
Will Go To The State OF
Michigan To Reside

ut don't look like Delaware" NUT
tered job Taborn Monday afternoon,
as he stepped from the four o'clock C.
d. & M. car from Columbus, where he
was released from the Ohio peniten-
tiary earlier in the day, having receiv-
ed one of the Emancipation pardons
granted by Governor Cox, says the
Delaware Gazette. Forty-three years
ago Taborn, then a young man of %,
was taken to the state prison to serve
a life sentence for the murder of
Richard Greevous.
The first inquiry of the old prisoner
when he reached the sidewalk was
where he could find Press Henderson.
Henderson, he said, was the only -,er-
sn still living in the city that he re-
membered. He was directed to the
Henderson barber shop, but a few
dors from the interurban station and
at once recognized the proprietor. He
was warmly greeted and remained at
the barber shop during much of the
afternoon, being presented to people
who happened to drop in. Many of
the names of the younger generation
he recalled, but none of the faces. Ia
born's adopted parents rented a house
belonging to Mr.. Hendersons father,
and which was located on Railroad
OF IN hoo ~ff hn
Gerry at the corner of Railroad and Lib
erty streets. He and Mr. Henderson
had known each other in boyhood days
and several times Mr.. Henderson had
visited Tabrn at the prison.
81 remember that building" Taborn
remarked, as he was being shown over
the city by Mr.. Henderson, and the two
passed the court huse where Taborn
was tried and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment. The man expressed no
desire to visit the south end, seeming
to dread sight of the familiar sur
rundings he might find there, where
the crime for which he served 43
years behind prison bars was commit
ted.
Taborn bears no animus to the mem
ory of the man who sentenced him to
his long term in prison. Soon after
his arrival in town, he was taken to
see 7. G. Jones, son of the judge.
Tears streamed down Taborns face as
the two shook hands, and the old man
expressed the opinion that the son
looked like his father. He talked of
his memories of the town, but of the
trial he had nothing to say.
Taborn may make his future home
in Delaware, although he expressed the
hope that he might obtain employment
elsewhere, where the people would not
know of his past record. He stayed
all night at the Franklin Hotel his first
night as free man again, and he re-
tired at seven o'clock Tuesday morn
ing he was up early, and he and Mr..
Henderson had breakfast together
after which Taborn took the early
morning Hooking Valley train for Cas-
sopolis, Michigan, where he resided
before coming to Delaware, and where
he thought he might possibly locate
some relatives. From there he had
intended to go to North Carolina, the
state of his nativity, but has since
changed his mind and may return to
this city to make his home.
The man had $27 when he left the
penitentiary, Twenty dollars of this
was given him by the state, and 50 he
had coming to his credit at the prison.
The other $5 was given him by pris-
oner who had the money coming, and
who still had seven of a twenty-five
year term to serve behind the bars
This man requested the warden to
turn his money over to the old pris-
oner.
Taborn has worked as a shoe last