The Prescott daily news., 1916-01-19
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versed and he was sentenced to man slaughter. Quite number of law yers represented him, and before sen tence was passed one of his attorneys requested the court to susupend sen tence until a pardon could be obtained. He served few days of his term and was pardoned. E. M. Watson, pro minent and well-to-do negro of Lafay cite county, convicted last term of court there of grand larceny and sen fenced to two years in the peniten- tiary. had his case affirmed by the Su preme Court and secured a pardon. Charles Seibert, well-to-do baker of Stamps, convicted last term Lafayette Circuit Court and fined $100 for run ming blind tiger, appealed to the Supreme Court, where his sentence was affirmel, and he was immediately pardoned, notwithstanding the prose cutting attorney informed the gover- nor this man had been repeatedly fined for selling liquor and that other similar indictments were pending against him.
 Says Murderer Was Freed
 In 1912 Will Hunter, young white man of Miller county, murdered his father by shooting him in the back with shotgun. He pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and was sentenced by Judge Carter to 15 years in the penitentiary. Two firms of lawyers represented him, and after he had served only two and a half years, secured his pardon. John Ray, accessory to the same murder, was convicted by jury of Miller county and sentenced to be hanged. The sen tence was reversed by the Supreme Court, and he entered plea of gull ty to second degree murder and was sentenced to 21 years in the peniten- tiary. He served less than three years and was pardoned,
 Tn August, 1913, Tom Bailey, negro was convicted in Clark county of mur- der and sentenced to serve 2l years. He was represented by two firms of lawyers, who appealed his case, not to the Supreme Court, but to the gover- nor, and secured his pardon. Another negro named Neal, at the same term of court, was sentenced to 21 years Tn the penitentiary for killing his old and helpless mother-in-law. His lawyers appealed to the governor, who pardon ed him after two years.
 Wealthy Negroes PardOned
 After the publication of my ad- dress to the Grand Jury, and imme diately prior to the governors answer to my criticism of his pardoning rec ord, he pardoned two prominent and wealthy negroes of Texas who had been convicted in Miller Circuit Court for burglarizing a wholesale mercan- tile house in Texarkana. These ne groes never served a minute of their sentence Being defended by able counsel, after conviction, they employ ed additional counsel and appealed their cases to the governor, who promptly reversed the judgment of the court and jury and granted them par dons.
 "At the July term of Nevada Cir cult Court prominent farmer and his son of that county were convicted of malicious mischief for shooting some mules. Judgment was rendered against them in favor of the owner of the stock for damages amounting to $50. The governor not only pardon ed the fine but part of the judgment for damages.
 Has Doubt About Angels.
 q have referred to only a few cases in my district, and I have every req son to believe the same condition, If not worse, obtains in other parts of the state. Until a year or so ago 1 never heard of men being pardoned in felony cases before they served any part of their sentence, but we have now reached the point in the history of our state when murderers and other criminals of every character are freely pardoned, and many before serving a minute of their sentence. Sentences for common larceny are suspended by the governor, civil judgments are par doned and revoked, blind tigers and whiskey peddlers are protected by the pardoning power, and yet we are met with the argument that the angels of