Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-22
Otis GREEN, WIFE MURDERER,
NOT ENTITLED TO
FREEDOM.
GOVERNOR APPROVES
PAROLE BOARD FINDINGS
Hunts wife On Streets and Shoots Her
-orsen Totally Blind a. Result Of
9slf. inflicted Wound in Effort 70
Commit suieide-vviiiis Workman
Rsturnsd g Prison.

Special to Times Republican,.
Dies Moines. Sept. %. Governor
Clarke today approved the report OF
the state board Of parole which denies
q parole to Otis Green. who was sem
fenced to life imprisonment in Novem-
Der, 1901, for the murder of his wife.
The report was sent in to the COVER
nor more than year ago.
Green had been divorced from his
wife because Of his dissipation. She
obtained emp loyment in Still College
Of Osteopathy, Des Moines. and was
working there at the time Of the trag-
edy., She was walking down Locust
street after her days work when Green
rode up on a bicycle and shot her,
killing her almost instantly. He then
turned the revolver on himself and
shot himself In the head. The shot did
not kill him but did make him totally
blind. He pleaded guilty to murder in
the second degree. his defense being
that he was crazed with drink at the
time the offcnse was committed. On
the same plea he placed his grounds
for asking a pardon. Green was Is
years old at the time OF his offense. He
was committed to Fort Madison but
after few months was transferred to
Anamosa as insane, but in June. 1907.
he was retransferred to Fort Madison.
He declared that for a period before
he shot his wife up to and after his
arrival at Anamosa his memory was a
blank
Act Premeditated.
Green suffered intense pain from d
trouble arising out Of his wound and
his consequent blindness. His eve balls
had been removed soon after he shot
himself. and in the course of years
the eye lids had grown to the back
part OF tho eye sockets. This made
it impossible for him to have glass
eyes. A little over a year ago he was
taken to Iowa City'to the state univer-
sity hospital and successful skin
grating operation performed Skin
was taken from his lower limbs and
grated TO his eyelids. The growth OF
The lids to the back part Of. the eye
sockets was thus relieved.
In its ruling the parole board said:
We are compelled to view his act as
premeditatei ana one by which he has
forafeited hia right to mingle again
with his fellow men. The judge in
that the facts warranted extreme PEN
atty and We can not conclude that this
should he interfered with
Parole vioiator Caught.
Parole Agent X. G. Lancelot left
today for Cynthianna, KY, to bring
back Willis Workman. now under ar
rest there for violating his parole.
Workman was paroled March 90 of
this year after having served part
of his sentence on conviction of for
gerry. He went back to Charles City.
Recently complaint was again lodged
against him in Charles City for again
forging checks. He had left the coun-
try but was apprehended at Cynthi-
anna, KY.
Apparently forgery is one of the
hardest things to correct in man who
Is given to that sort Of thing there Is
said Mr.. Lancelot yesterday. Petty
thievinz is another hard thing for per-
sons addicted to that habit to over
come hut forgery seems to be espe-
cialiy apt to get man in it's tolls 1t
-ery often happens that man once
convicted Of forgery goes back again
to the same habit"