The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-27
ZOE PRISONERS GET LIBERTY.
Governor Blease Breaks Record III
Granting Clemency to Convicts.

Columbia, November 2S.-Previous
pardons records were broken when
Governor Blease affixed his signature
to papers granting freedom to one
hundred convicts in the PenltentarE
and scattered on chain gangs
throughout the State, this being the
Governors list for Thanksgiving
clemency. With the Thanksgiving
number the total number of convlcts
pardoned and paroled by Governor
Rlease since he first assumed office
in January, 1911, jumped to $50.
The pardon and parole papers for
this 1O0 convicts have been signed by
the Governor and will be sent to the
Office of Secretary of State R. NJ. Nc
Gown on Tuesday morning in order
for him to affix his signature. The
papers will be sent to the Peniten-
tiary, the State farm, and the county
chain gangs where the prisoners are
confined in time for them to be lib
Grated on Wednesday and let them
eat Thanksgiving dinner at their
homes on Thursday.
Crimes Committed.
Hurried compilation OF the crimes
for which those given clemency for
Thanksgiving were convicted show
the following.
Twenty-eight life-terms for muir
der, twenty-eight for manslaughter,
seven for burglary and larceny, ten
for assault and battery with intent to
kill, four for assault and battery of
high and aggravated nature, five for
housebreaking and larceny, one for
highway robbery and larceny, one for
larceny of live stock, two for obtain
ing goods under false pretences, one
for gambling, disorderly conduct and
larceny, three for rape, two for
breach of trust, one for larceny OF
bicycle, one for grand larceny, one
for safe-cracking, one for larceny and
forgery, one for bigamy, three for
violation of the dispensary law, max
ing total of 100.
Richland Heads List.
Richland County heads the list
with ten in the number, Spartanburg
and Greenville tie for second place
with eight piece, and the others are
apportioned to the following coun-
ties: Greenwood three, Lee one,
Newberry FIVE, Darlington four,
Charleston three, Marion three, Dor
chester two, Union one, Bamberg
one, Oconee one, Lancaster two, Alb
beville three, Pickens one, Ander-
SON three, Barnwell two, Williams
burg one, Orangeburg four, Chester
four, Marlboro one, Edgefield two,
Laurens six, York one, Georgetown
one, Cherokee five, Lexington four,
Aiken four, Kershaw one, Dorchester
one. Coneton one, Clarendon one,
Chesterfield one, Calhoun one. This
makes thirty-five counties, and the
other counties not figuring in the list
were: Dillon, Jasper, Horny, Beau
fort. Florence, Berkeley, and Fair
field.
Only One Full Pardon.
Out of the 100 receiving clemency
for Thanksgiving only one was given
a full pardon, he being ]. E. Hinson,
white, convicted at the March, 1913,
term of Court for Marlboro County,
of aggravated assault and battery,
and sentenced to six months impris-
onment upon the public works of
Marlboro County.
The one from Bamberg County re-
ceiving a parole was Robert Connel-
ly, convicted at the March, 1909, term
of Court for this county of murder
with recommendation to mercy and
sentenced to life Imprisonment in the
State Penitentiary In view of the
petition presented and the recommen-
dations of Solicitor Davis and Judge
Watts the defendant having served
nearly five years, parole was grant
ed him, during good behavior, No
vember 25, 1913.