Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-09-10
JUDGE DUGAN'S
t SON PAROLED BY
PARDONS COURT
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Youth Whose Auto Killed Boy
Will Be Released from
Penitentiary.
TWO GIVEN PARDONS;
146 GET PAROLES
Work Not Finished, Court Will
Convene Again on
! Sept. 2f.
From staT Correspondent.

TRENTON, Sept. 10.-Two pardons,
one hundred and forty-eight paroles
and one leftover case, to be consid-
cred at a final meeting to be held
September 81, is the record of the
work of the Court of Pardons for the
June term, announced today by Ex-
ecutive Clerk John j. Farrell, who is
also clerk to the court, after the ex-
animation of the applications filed by
three hundred and twenty-eight in
mates of the State prison, the largest
number of petitions for clemency
ever presented to the Pardons Court
at one term. At this the work of the
court for the term is not yet COM
pleted.
On the list of successful applicants
there are five names of prisoners
serving terms for murder. One of
these is a woman, Florence Murray,
who was serving an indeterminate
sentence of twelve to thirty years,
from Monmouth county.
Four others to whom the court
meted out clemency have been serv-
Ing sentences for manslaughter.
Probably the most prominent of these
is Daniel A. Dugan, jr., of Essex
county, who was serving sentence
cf from five to ten years Tor having
killed boy while driving an auto
mobile
The accident in which young Dugan
figured occurred on Christmas Day,
1911. In company with James A.
Clark and Louis Nolte he was driving
up Main street in an automobile be-
longing to the late Rev. Matthias j.
Mcdonald, rector of st. john
Church. They we're travelling fast
when they reached Jay street, ana be-
fore they realized 1t had struck
woman. Dugan, who was at the
wheel turned his head to see what
had happened By that time the Car
had reached the opposite corner.
Leo McDermott, fourteen years old,
of Orange, was crossing the street
and before he could get out of the
way was knocked down. He received
fatal injuries. zz.,.. -,
Tho three youths In the car were
arrested. Dugan was convicted OF
manslaughter before Judge Martin,
and his companions escaped with
fine. Dugans conviction was fought
70 the Court of Errors and Appeals,
which sustained the conviction. lie
received an indeterminate sentence,
with a minimum of five years and
maximum of ten in the State prison.
He has served one year and seven
months.
Ciemency for Old Convict.
or the absolute pardons granted,
two I'm number. one is granted to Leo
paid Ritter, of Camden county. who
Of age,
and who has less than year of his
sentence to serve. He has already
,pent twenty-six years of his life in
various prisons, mostly for minor OF
fences, the last one being the theft
of a half portion of cooked duck
from a restaurant. The other par
don. given TO Joseph Thomo, OF Essex
Thirty-two of the total paroled have
been released on the expiration OF
their terms at various times since the
first meeting of the court on July s
last Seventy-eight are to be released
today. and the remaining thirty-eight
on the dates following their names on
the list.
The list in part is as follows:
Immediate Pardons.
Burlington County-Giovanni Boz
nanni, assault and battery Clarence
Mounty, larceny of chickens.
Camden-Lewis l.. Carson, carrying
concealed weapons; Maud Jordan, dis
orderly house: Harry Munyon, per-
jury, Hugh Quinn, robbery; David
Washington, atrocious assault; Frank
Allen, breaking, entering and larceny:
Bert Carr, breaking, entering and
larceny. William Miller, robbery
Isaac Morris. petit larceny; Joseph
Raymond breaking. entering and lar
ceny; Harry Beechman, breaking, en-
tering and larceny.
Essex-Daniel A. Dugan. man
slaughter: John Howley, burning;
Sabata Leba, atrocious assault and
battery; Michael Logan. assault and
battery; Edward Loughman. assault
and battery and robbery; Joseph
Telasco, murder, second degree;
Charles Gilbert Smith, perjury;
Mario Amerisano. assault and bat
terry: Charles Jackson, breaking, en-
tering. larceny and receiving; Felice
Mangini, larceny and receiving; John
Moore, assault and battery.
Hudson-John II. Cain, statutory
CHARGE William A. Calighy, statu-
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