The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04
PAROLES FOR 823
That Number Issued During
Past Four Years.
Penitentiary Board Gave Ma
jOrity of Them.
THEY COVER ALL OFFENSES
Most of Them "FirSt TermerS."
However.
Nearly All Made Goods Now
to Pass On.
THEY COVER ALL 0FFENSES

In the four years that Governor
Stubbs has been in the governors
chair, total of S23 paroles and COM
mutations of sentences have been is
sued to prisoners in the penitentiary.
One parole was issued to a Jail pris-
oner by Governor Stubbs. These facts
are shown in a review of parole
books c and D, in the governors Of
flee. By far the larger number of
these paroles were issued by the board
of penal institutions which reviewed
the cases.
Paroles of the last two years as well
as combinations of sentences are
shown in book D, now being used as
parole record in the governors office.
In that book are shown records of 470
instances of executive clemency. This
book starts with parole No. 1,136,
while the last parole to be issued is
No. 1,606.
Book C, which was in use both un-
der the four year administration of E.
Governor Stubbs' term, shows that
Governor Stubbs and his penal board
granted in Stubbs' first term total of
354 paroles and combinations. Pa
roles in that time cover all or portions
of ten pages, Immediately following
the Hoch record. Those pages show
a total of 339 paroles. On another
page of the book is found IA commu-
tations of sentences for men doing
time for crime in the state peniten-
tiary at Lansing. But one parole from
a Jail sentence is recorded in book c.
Neither does the book contain the
records of paroles or combinations
issued to prisoners in the Hutchinson
After using Book c. throughout his
first two year term, the Office opened
Book D.. which contains the records
of 470 paroles and communications grant
ed under the last two year. term. This
book shows 110 paroles granted by the
governor, while the remaining paroles
are credited to the penal board COM
posed of Edward E. Mullaney and J.
H. Hazen, Republicans; and Thomas
w. Morgan, Democrat, all appointees
of Governor Stubs.
Cover All Offenses.
These paroles and communications are
to meen and women charged with al
most every offense defined under the
code. Persons convicted of
assault, larceny, embezzlement,
bank robbery, arson, statutory of.
fenses, perjury and a dozen other
crimes have brought their cases be-
fore the governor and members of
either in the form of a parole or a
of their prison sentence.
In a majority of the cases. leniency |
has been shown to first termers, !
men and women convicted of their |
first crime and in whose cases there !
has been some doubt in the mind of |
the governor or members Of the board |
as to the guilt of the convicted party, |
or who had made proper showing |
that they would reform in event they |
were given an opportunity. Most of |
the recipients of clemency are said
to have made good. But not all of |
them In some cases, the men and |
women released have been returned |
to the court charged with new and |
additional offenses. And in such in |
their paroles have been revok-
ed and they have been returned to
Are 200 Moro Prisoners.
Yet in the face of these S23 par
1les and combinations, Warden J. K
Codding recently reported to Cover
nor Stubbs that there are 200 more
men and women in the prison at this
lime than when he was appointed as
warden of the state prison nearly four
Jears ago. Il
When Codding was appointed to the
Hardenship there were a few more
han 700 inmates of the Kansas pris-
IN. Now there are more than 900.
And in a recent trip to Topeka, Cod
ling urged that Governor Stubbs take
favorable action on rs additional par
lie cases.
These are old forgotten cases"
aid Codding, "men and women who
believe should have been released
ong ago. They are friend1ess with
10 one to urge their cause and in
majority of the cases their offense
vas forgotten long ago.
VIII He Parole More?
But Stubbs is reticent about those
5 additional paroles. The records show
he issuance of parole or commuta-
ion averaging more than one every
ther day in the 1.460 days that Gov
rnor Stub5s has been in the governors
ffice.
Action on these paroles, however. is
till pending They were submitted to
he governor by Warden Codding and
n each of the rs cases he urged the
,ranting of a parole. Governor Stubbs
till has one more week in which to
rant or reject these applications, as
e will retire from office Monday, Jan
ary 13 In event he declines to grant
hese additional paroles, it is considered
robably that Warden Codding will
heck the cases up to Governor-elect