The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-01-17
NUMBER OF CONv|CTS
SEEK THEIR FREEDOM
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
Four life convicts in the Stillwa-
ter prison were among the twenty
eight petitioners for clemency whose
applications were on the calendar
for the regular quarterly meeting of
the state board of pardons, at p.
m. today in the office of Governor
A. o. Eberhart. OF the differs" Dan
iel Blue. committed from Grant
county, has been a prisoner nearly
fifteen years, and Nichola Christello
of Aitkin county already has spent
more than seventeen years in the
penitentiary. w. NJ. Hall of Blue
Earth county, sent up for life, is
seeking pardon.
Nine of the applicants for pardon
are from Hennepin county, four from
Ramsey county and two each from
| Aitkin, st. Louis, Olmsted and
Wright counties.
Among names on the calendar:
John Ryan, Ramsey county, May
! &C. 1912, state prison, four years;
swindling.
Walter Webb, HenneDin county,
February "a, 1906, state prison
eighteen years; manslaughter in the
| first degree.
Timothy Murphy. Ramsey county,
May 81. 1910. state prison, seven
years; grand larceny first degree
Frank Wilson. Hennepin county,
September %, 1910. state prison. fif-
teen years: robbery, first degree.
John Kelly. Hennepin county. Sep
TENDER %. 1896, state prison, fifteen
years: robbery.
7. J. Schuhe. st. Louis county,
August Q. 1908: state prison, life;
murder in the second degree.
| A. c. Fern. Hennepin county, No.
vember 12. 1909: state prison seven
wears and six months; manslaughter
| in first degree.
| Daniel Blue. sentenced from Grant
county. June 80, 1898. state nrison,
! life. murder in the second degree
| Albert F. Rnlman. Kandivohi conn.
". October 5. 1912. state reforma-
/ tory. indotarminate: grand larceny
second deerae
w NJ Han R,na Earth cnnntv
Dncnnher 10 1910 state n~ison. life:
ror~dnr in tho second deeree.
Edwn~d KamnoilInr Hennenin coun.
Nv November "a ions. state nrisnn
thi~tean wears and nine months:
highway rohhnrv.
r T Murnhv Ramsey county Feb
ruarv IA 1911. state prison. four
voare. orand larceny. Second degree.
Ered arick T MnnownlI Hennanin
COUNTY Tune TX. 1910. state wilson.
o;n
Jacob Pud'e Hennenin county.
March rs. 1911. state prison. five
wears: assault in the second de-
gree
! Frank Rntz. Hennepin county.
June 10. 1912. state prison. until dis.
charged by due course of law. or BY
comnetent authority; desertion:
prosecuting attorney recommends
clemency
! w. P. Steffen, Hennepin county,
April 30. 1911, state reformatory;
indeterminate sentence; burglary
third degree.
! William B. Michel" Brown coun.
+ ty,. December 81. 1899 state prison,
seven years; robbery in the first de-
gree.
,
April 10, 1912, state prison, indeter-
inmate sentence; keeping resort.
| Frank TrezZa, Olmsted county,
December II, 1908; state prison,
life: murder in the second degree.
Nicholas Christello, Aitkin county,
August 3, 1895, state prison, life;
! murder.
Sam Adler, Ramsey county, June
IA, 1911, state prison, indeterminate
sentence; assault in the first degree.
Francis Emmett Knight. sentenced
from st. Louis county February 80,
1912, to the state reformatory for
an indeterminate sentence; grand
| larceny, second degree.
| Walter Livingston, Stearns county,
December 90, 1912, state prison, for
six years; grand larceny second
degree.
Hall of Blue Earth county, who
| is seeking his freedom, was convict
ed of shooting to death George
Crook, who married Halls niece.
/ In it's first report, the state board
of parole finds that seventy-eight of
the 271 prisoners paroled from the
! SttLe pllSOu NlOldleu IU6lr paroles
! and that 103 inmates of the 361 re-
leased from the state reformatory
| failed to live up to their promises.
The report, which covers the two
year period ending July 81, 1912,
shows that forty-four paroled prison
ers were returned to the prison and
thirty-four made their escape and
still are at large, with twenty more
absent without leave at the time the
board of parole assumed jurisdiction,
making fifty-four nominal prisoners
beyond the custody of the prison.
From the state reformatory there
were 100 fugitives, including forty
one added in the last two years. OF
this number, twelve violated their
second parole.
The total number received at the
institution between Oct Is, 1889, and
July 81, 1912, was 1892. Of this
number, 1885 were paroled once
169 twice and II the third
time. So perverse was the nature
of some that five failed on the third
trial, four being returned to the re.
formatory and one being a fugitive.
There was discharged by the board
359, seventy-three by expiration of
sentence, while 259 were transferred
to the state prison and thirty to the
hospitals for the insane. The mum.
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