Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-03-11
APPLICATIONS FOR PAROLE OF
BROTHERS sEiNo HEARD IN
pEs MONIES.
WILCOX CONTINUES FIGHT
IN OPPOSITION TO RELEASE
Possible Brothers Would Not Leave
Prison If Given Privilege, Because Of
Illness Of Frank-interurban to Be
Expected TO Site Of State Epileptie
coIony-Prison Contracts.
TO mes.Renuhlican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines March 1.-THE hearing
of the board Of parole on the Rains
barger case is on for today, and per-
sons for and against termination OF
their long incarceration appeared be-
fore the board.
The principal advocate OF release OF
the men and termination Of the sem
fences is S. T. Waterman. in the gov
eminent secret service, who has had
great opportunity for investigation into
the entire case. His contention is that
the guilt Of the men, as to this par
ticular crime, is at least in doubt. The
old information as to the relationship
between the counterfeit gang and the
horse thief gang is again in evidence.
which was threshed out before several
legislative committees. The board has
acted twice on the case and has been
asked to reconsider 1t again, as the
governor can not act until it is done.
W. V. Wilcox, of this city, who has
persistently followed the case from the
first in bitter opposition to any elem
who would release the men.
It is said to be probable that neither
of the men would now leave the re-
helpless invalid and the elder brother
refused to go outside the wall to attend
his brother Williams funeral.
In a few days the people Of Wood
ward will vote on proposition to
grant the interurban railway company
the right to go thru the town to make
the extension promised into Boone
county and to the site Of the states
epileptic colony. There is no doubt
the proposition will carry as it is said
that every enc Of the 900 or over resi-
dents of Woodward favors it. The in
terurban will have to build about a
mile and half Of track to the site of
the central buildings on the farm.
The farm comes to within a quarter
mile Of the station on the Milwaukee
railroad In Woodward, but the princi-
pal buildings will be mile farther
away. There are eight passenger trains
day stopping at the Woodward sta
ton.
The land purchased is mainly in
Boone county, and all the buildings
will be in Boone county. The present
ownership Of the land which has been
bought is as follows:
Carl Small, farmer. seventy acres:
Mr.. Briggs. seventy five acres; Arch
Williams. farmer, eighty acres: Walter
Burrell, farmer, 4sO acres; lady in
Chicago, 210 acres. OF the latter tract
fifty-nine acres are in Dallas county
and all the rest Is in Boone. Not a
foot Of the land Is owned by any one
in Dallas county.
The latest step of the state officials
in the direction Of establishing state
industries at the prisons in place Of
contract labor on private account is
making slow eheadway. The agreement
entered into between the board of con-
troll and the contractors at the Fort
Madison institution has not yet been
signed and another conference Is
scheduled for next Monday. The board
succeeded in securing an arrangement
by which the chair contract was to be
so modified that after two years it
could be Cancelled at the option of the
state and for a higher payment to the
workmen. Now the contractors are
hesitating about reducing the time for
the continuance Of the contract and
want to change the agreement into
other channels. But whatever the
agreement it is certain that decided
step in the right direction will have
been taken.