The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-01-25
PARDONS
GRANTED BY
GOVERNOR
SLAYER OF THOMAS GENTRY is
GIVEN FREEDOM - So RECEIVE
EXPIRATION PARoONs WITH
RIGHTS RESTORED.

b. Gentry. and one Of the principals
in the famous Gentry murder case,
was one of the fifty-eight inmates of
the state penitentiary and Granite re-
formatory receiving expiration par
dons Saturday from Governor r. l..
Williams. Weightman, mere youth
of ~ years, at the time actually fired
the shot that killed Thomas Gentry,
his brother-inlaw, an Oklahoma City
business man, according to the state
ment of the accomplice, Jess Mackey,
who turned states evidence and was
granted immunity.
After his sister, Mrs. Gentry, had
been convicted in Oklahoma City and
sentenced to life Imprisonment for her
part in the plot that resulted in her
husbands death, following, perhaps,
the most sensational and revolving
murder trial on record in Oklahoma,
young Weightman secured a change of
venue, having his case transferred to
Canadian county. A jury in the Cana
dian county district court in the
spring of 1912, adjudged him guilty of
manslaughter and he was sentenced to
serve five years.
Committed to the penitentiary i'm
mediately after conviction, Weight
man has been an ideal prisoner, ac-
cording to the record submitted to the
governor by Warden r. w. Dick in
recommending the Incarceration cut
one year and five months from his
original fve-year term, and by work
ing S43 days he secured 2S1 days ad-
ditional credit. His total credits came
to two years, three months and eight
days, or nearly half of the five years
he was sentenced to serve.
Sister Still in Penitentiary
The pardoning of Weightman is the
first development in the noted case in
several months. His sister, Mrs. Gen
try, is still in the penitentiary at Nc
Alester. Mackey, the informer, dis
appeared from Oklahoma soon after
being released, and has not been heard
from since.
In granting the fifty-eight eXpira-
ton pardons, Saturday, the first batch
he has approved, Governor Williams
refused to comply with the wardens
recommendation that citizenship
rights be restored at once to those on
the list He addressed letter, a
copy of which follows, to each recipi-
ent of "a pardon, outlining his reasons
for declining to restore citizenship
rights and promising to consider that
step in one year providing the record
of the pardoned one is good.
81 am this day causing to be issued
to you short term pardon as re
ward for good conduct and days work
ed by you while restrained of your
liberty. | am very glad, indeed, that
the facts in your case, as found by the
board of prison control, justifies this,
and while | am restoring your liberty
am not yet restoring you to your
rights of citizenship. The exercise of
the rights of citizenship is a very
important one, not only to yourself,
but to society. ! am not restoring you
to your citizenship at present. If, at
the expiration of one year, you have
shown yourself good citizen and such
representation is made to me, | will
be glad to consider your application
for citizenship rights.
you have my good wishes and |
hope that henceforth during your life
you will serve your state faithfully"
List of Pardons.
The following expiration pardons
without citizenship rights being re-
stored, were granted by Governor VIII
liams to inmates of the McAlesteT
penitentiary:
George Keyes, Cherokee, larceny OF
livestock; Ben Brown, Washington,
forgery; Pete Livesay, Mcintosh, lar
ceny of livestock; Charles H. Smith,
Choctaw, horse larceny; Elmer Thomp-
son, Payne, forgery; L. d. Moore, Pot
tawatomie, larceny; Ruth Moorehouse,
Logan, burglary; David E. Buckner,
Sequoyah, false pretenses; Jesse
Hurd. Hughes, grand larceny; Harry
Jackson, Pottawatomie, intent to kill /;
w. F. Ballinger. Hughes, disposing of
mortgaged property; Willis Gaines, of
Wagner. burglary; Henry Gordon
Oklahoma, grand larceny; Ohio Little
Tillman, burglary; Oze Dazzler, Mus
kogee, assault with intent to kill; Sam
Owens, Tulsa, robbery; Oscar Pool,
Delaware. grand larceny; Robert Cor
bin, Payne, burglary; w. c. Wilson,
Jefferson, obtaining money under false
pretenses; Roy Long, Grady, larceny;