Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-23
NJ CLAIM DEMANDS
LESS PETT|FOCG|NG
Lieutenant Governor Says Pardon
Board Is Not to Be General
Jail Delivery

Announcement by Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor Frank B. McClain at the con-
, clusion of the meeting of the Board of
Pardons last evening that the board
did not propose to become "a board
of general Jail delivery" is expected
to discourage presentation OF criminal
cases without merit The board does
not meet again until September and
cases will be subjected to considerable
scrutiny before being listed.
For months the board has had cases
presented which, in the language of
the Lieutenant-Governor, have fea-
lures more within the scope of q court
than the board The board, he said,
will not consider legal points. but will
sit to listen to arguments involving
extraordinary matters, as the trainers
of the Constitution contemplated. At
! torneys who present numerous cases
were scored and asked how they came
to have so many. 1t Is suspected that
some lawyers have been making 1t
business to collect pardon application
cases instead of allowing only unusual
causes to arise. In some instances
men present cases from counties far
distant
Mr.. McClain had refused several
times during the meeting to postpone
cases which had been brought up sew
eral times, but the whole matter cul-
minated when w. S. Harris, of West
| Chester, who frequently appears at the
board meetings, presented the first of
eight cases. Attorney General Brown
and Secretary Woods took exception to
his manner of presenting cases and
finally Mr.. McClain asked how he came
to list so many cases not from his own
county. A couple of the cases were
summarily turned down and general
notice given that there should be no
more indiscriminate listing.
Three Dauphin cases were among
those rejected. one being the Kaufman
case, which was held over. Decisions
were announced as follows:
Recommended - Robert S. Barton
Chester, sodomy; Jack Ashton, Phila-
delphia, larceny: S. H. Anderson,
Allegheny, abortion; John Petinski,
Luzerne, assault and battery; Anthony
goods; Eugene Alwine, York, sodomy;
Tony Duda, LuZerne, assault and bat
terry; Leonardo Bardino, Berks, statu-
tory rape.
Refused-Anna Bella Hatch. Ches-
ter adultery; Karl Pinter, Northamp-
ton. manslaughter; William Caracina.
Philadelphia, sodomy; Helen BOYLE,
Pond. Philadelphia, assault and bat
terry; Bernard Stern. Montgomery,
perjury; Thomas F. Kutz, Philadel-
phia, larceny; Joseph Mclaughlin,
Philadelphia, larceny; Hattie Dutton,
Dauphin, larceny: Albert Smith Fuller,
Philadelphia, larceny, ETC.; Adam
Lackvazuaski. Delaware. receiving
stolen goods; e. F, Foote, Susquehanna
| burglary; Miles King, Berks, second
| degree murder; William Cooper, Mont
gomery, statutory rape; Max Fisher,
| Montgomery, burglary; Harry He'd
dinger, Schuylkill. larceny; William r.
| Brown, York. second degree murder:
Mike Metro Luzerne, larceny; Braggio
Conidini, Lebanon, assault and battery:
Samuel Skipwroth. Philadelphia, sec
ond degree murder Joseph Davis,
| Philadelphia, robbery: Peter Dupont,
Montgomery, felonious entry; David
| Kaufman, Dauphin, larceny.
| Paroled = Edward Steward, Allie
| gheny car robbery; John c. Anderson
Fayette. bigamy.
Rehearings Refused = Felix Storti
| Philadelphia. second degree murder;
| John Gallagher, Philadelphia. assault
and battery; James Stetson, York, lar
| ceny
Rehearing was granted Florence
| Wilson, Dauphin, keeping bawdy
house.