The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-08-13
Governor Lister Issued Pardon
Monday Afternoon
APPROVES
Harry {. Carr is Free On the Ground
that Great Wrong Temporarily
Unbalanced His Mind

The most pleasing information that
has come to the people Of the west
end of Chelan county for many day
was that which reached here by wire
Monday evening, announcing that
Governor Lister had granted Mr.. Carr
an unconditional pardon for Staying c.
D. Franklin in the examining court
December 7th, 1914, at Cashmere, for
a foul assault on his ten year old
daughter. One of the bullets aimed at
Franklin, after passing thru his body.
hit the floor, glanced and killed ]. c.
Parsons, one OF the jurors, an old and
highly respected fruit grower of the
Wenatchee valley.
After the shooting at Cashmere Mr..
Carr Immediately went to Wenatchee
and gave himself up to the authorities,
not knowing at the time that he had
killed Mr.. Parsons. He was placed
on trial for killing Mr.. Parsons, and
February 13 the jury brought in a ver-
dict of murder in the second degree,
and he was sentenced by Judge Grim
shaw to a term in the penitentiary of
from ten to fifteen years. AT the fol-
lowing May term of the court he was
placed on trial for killing c. D. Frank
lin, and after being out an hour
brougt in verdict of acquittal. Mr..
Carr remained in Jail from December
7, 1914, to March 26. 1914, when he
was admitted to bail in the sum Of
SIS, 900, which was promptly given,
pending an appeal in the Parsons case
to the supreme court, on a motion for
new trial.
While hearing in the Supreme Court
on the motion for new trial was pend
ing a movement was started by Mr..
Cars friends in Leavenworth and else
where asking the governor to use his
pardoning power and set him free.
The petition was signed by men and
women in Chelan county to the num-
Der OF over six thousand.
About that time this paper printed a
news item asking everybody who knew
Mr.. Carr, and the circumstances that
led up to the killing, who might want
to 60 on record as favoring his pardon,
to write personal letter to The Echo,
with the request that their names be
placed on the petition and sign the
same and it would have the same eff
feet as signing the petition. In re-
sponse to this hundreds, yes thousands
of letters were received. Other hun
dreds OF letters were written to the
governor from business men all over
this state and other states, the mem
bers OF the jury that convicted Mr..
Carr, nearly every member of our state
legislature, made acquainted with the
facts, signed petitions. Indeed, the
pressure brought to bear on the gov
ernor was so great that he decided to
come here on August S and make
personal investigation. Some eight
hundred or thousand people attended
the meeting. 1t was shown that Mr..
Carr, besides being in every way an
exemplary, law abiding citizen, was one
OF the quietest, most mild-manered OF
men. Considerate OF the rights and
feelings OF his fellow men, and that the
defense. set up in both trials, that Mr..
Carr was laboring under great stress OF
mind, brought on by brooding over
the great wrong inflicted on his family,
and the publicity and humiliation he
would suffer from disclosures in the
franklin examining trial, and that ne
was suffering from species OF mad