The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-10-10
MILL
GR|NDS MERR|[y
WHILE LiEUT.-GoV. MeALEsTER
ENJOYS ANOTHER BRIEF
SEASON OF POWER.
REDUCES POPULATION OF PRISON
Efforts to Free Big Batch OF conviets
Is Temporarily Blocked, How
ever by Secretary Of State
Ben Harrison.

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Oklahoma City.-While Gov. Cruce
was in Washington, attending the cot
ton conference, Lieut.-Gov. McAlester
assumed the Office. In his brief reign
of two days, he attempted a whole
sale pardoning program and thereby
provided material for the courts for
some weeks to come.
Records of thirty-two pardons, pa.
roles and combinations granted by
the lieutenant governor are lying on
desk in the office of Secretary OF
State Ben +. Harrison. Thirty-two
statements acknowledging receipt of
orders from Lieutenant Governor Nc
Alester directing Secretary Harrison
to attest the signatures on as many
pardons and paroles were Endorsed by
the latter with these words: "All Of
which refuse to do"
Secretary OF State Harrison was be-
sieged with pleas from lawyers to
attest the governors signature on par
dons, but told all that he would sign
no pardons except those recommend
ed by the pardon board since Cover
nor Cruces departure from the state.
List Of Lucky ones.
JAMES ZIMMERMAN, conditional
pardon.
NELSON HAWKINS, Communication
of sentence.
WALTER FLOWERS, commutation
Of sentence.
LINCOLN BURTON, unconditional
pardon.
J. ORLANDO MITCHELL. pardon.
STANLEY BAKER, parole.
s. s. STARR, communication.
ROBERT C. THOMPSON, parole.
CHARLES OvERTON, conditional
pardon.
JOE PROCTOR, conditional pardon
FRED CAMERON. commutation.
W. T. CAPLE, two pardors.
FRANK COwLEY, pardon.
JAMES HOBBS. Communication.
NED MCDANIEL. pardon.
WALTER FAUCETT, pardon.
ACE RAY, parole.
ROY JAMES, pardon.
JAMES HOBBS, parole.
J. G. HAMPTON, ommutation.
ROBERT DAVIS, pardon.
ROBERT WATSON commutation.
ROY PAULK, pardon.
ARTHUR DIX, conditional pardon
JONAS JONES, pardon.
C. A. STEWARD, pardon.
MONT D. PERKINS, pardon.
ROY PEEL, pardon.
F. d. TAGGART. pardon.
SAM STEWART, pardon.
GEORGE WANTLAND. pardon.
A number of the orders for execu-
tive clemency have been presented to
prison officials at McAlester, but War
den Dick refused to honor any except
those bearing the signature of Secre-
tary of State Ben f. Harrison. Only
three prisoners have been released.
They are: Charles Jaggers, Pittsburg
county, serving life sentence for MUIR
der, paroled; Taylor Kirk, Canadian
county, life sentence, murder, paroled:
Mike zanone, Pittsburg county, forty
years, manslaughter, pardoned.
A number OF the prisoners were
prominent Joe Proctor is the king of
the Oklahoma county gamblers; Mel
son Hawkins was serving forty years
for numbering a twelve-year-old In
dian girl; Ned Mcdaniel was charged
with defalcation when county clerk
at Altus. He was secretory Of the last
senate.
Mandamus Dropped.
Asserting that they have obtained
sufficient attestation to the pardons
and paroles granted by Acting Cover
nor J. ]. McAlester, Attorneys r. G.
McAdams and Norman Haskell dis
missed the mandamus petitions
against Secretary OF State Ben F. Har-
rison which were filed In the district
court.
This unexpected step on the part OF
the attorneys representing several of
the persons pardoned and paroled by
the acting governor, followed formal
written refusal by Secretary Harrison
to affix his signature and the great
seal of the state to the pardons.
Secretary Harrison wrote separate
refusal to each OF twenty-eight par
dons. paroles and communications de-
lvered to him by Attorney McAdams,
who at the same time turned over to
the secretary the written order from
McAlester To these refusals, Secre-
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