Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-22
PARDON BOARD IS
GIVEN PETTY WORK
Objection Voiced in Strong
Terms to Trivial Char
acter of Cases

The State Board of Pardons ad-
1ourned for the summer recess last
night with a protest by Lieutenant
Governor Frank B. McC1ain against
tie trivial character of many of the
cases being sent before the board and
a fat rundown of several murder
cases which have been attracting at
tention.
Mr.. McClain said that too much
ntaudlin sentimentality was being dis
played in the cases sent to the board
This came after appeals had been
made that men were model prisoners
ano in one case that a man, If liber-
ated, would take the place of a use
tu! artisan who might be called to
war.
Toward the end of the session Mr.
McClain and Secretary of the Com
monwealth Woods several times COM
nlented upon the kind of the cases
coming up and Mr.. Woods said that
the board was being asked to sit in
cases which the law never contem-
plated. IF this continues we will
have nothing else to do but work on
these cases. The intention of the act
was to have this Board sit in cases
where life and death were concerned
and in grave issues which might arise
when the cases left the courts" said
Mr.. McClain. 'If it keeps on we will
from men sentenced to thirty days by
justices of the peace for corner loaf
irg."
The decisions of the board were as
follows:
Recommended - John Zakaluk,
Lackawanna, burglary; Charles E.
Weeks, Warren, second degree mur-
der; Tony George, Armstrong, assault
and battery; Alfred +. Jones, Fayette,
murder (commuted); Leonard Wyn-
ing and Ralph Emmerich, Lehigh, lar
ceny; Earl Garis, Northampton, as
sault with intent to rob: George Gar
ris, Chester, impersonating an officer;
Charles Wilson, Schuylkill. burglary;
H. NJ. Gibson, Dauphin, attempted lar
ceny; Silas Gibson, Beaver, felonious
assault; Joseph Gulick, Lycoming,
breaking and entering; Charles Sa-
none, Luzerne, manslaughter; Aloyd
Jackson, Philadelphia, ! assault and
battery, robbery; Paul Caulford, Ches-
ter, rape.
Refusals - H. E. Filler, Westmore-
land, murder; Jacob Miller. Philadel-
phia, murder; Gaspar Marturana and
Thomas Chickarelli, Cambria, muir
der; Adolph Blau. Lackawanna, en-
bezzlement; John and Anthony Bart
linski Northum berland, assault and
battery; Robert Beswick, Montgomery,
larceny; Mike Kupper, Lehigh, tres
pass; Carl Dougherty, Carbon, rape;
Richard Miller, Montgomery. burg
larry: Mendel Gross, Dauphin, pander-
ing; Albert Heagy, Dauphin, robbery;
Albert Moore, Allegheny, robbery; An
drew Botanic, Allegheny, perjury;
William Barnes, Franklin, manslaugh-
ter; Frank Minnich, York; felonious
entry and larceny; Dmytro Haurelian,
Luzerne, felonious wounding; Robert
Brown, Luzerne, burglary; James
Ryan, Luzerne, breaking and enter
ing; Raymond Kienzle, Philadelphia,
rape; Edgar C. Hess Philadelphia.
adultery; John Gallagher. Philadel-
phia, assault and battery; Joseph di
Simone, Philadelphia, manslaughter,
John Taylor and Joseph Morrelle,
Philadelphia, larceny; Frank Tactcel,
Philadelphia, rape; Louis o. Hihe,
Philadelphia, murder (commuted) {;
James Mccullough, Philadelphia, lar
ceny; Dominic Peter, Philadelphia,
larceny; Clarence Heitzman, Philadel-
phia, larceny; James Gellispie, Mont
gomery, burglary.
Rehearings Refused - Andrew
Becze, Westmoreland, murder; James
E. Foye, Philadelphia, forgery; Harry
Jacobs and George Jacobs, Perry,
breaking and entering; Thomas E.
Patterson, Cumberland, burglary, etc.