The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-07-14
lettering Old Man Is Given His
Liberty At Last
SENT UP FROM MANkATO
Others Were Treated in Like
Manner; Some Sentences
COMMITTED

st. Paul, July 12.-Prison doors
were opened late yesterday to release
w. M. Hall, lifer at Saltwater, de-
scribed by former Warden Henry
Wolfer in a special appeal to the
state pardon board as "a poor, totter-
I ing, old man.
One other pardon applicant was sue
cessful, third was pardoned for one
of two offenses, and ten prisoners
were granted combinations of SEN
fences at the close Of twO-day ses-
sion of the pardon board.
Out of the total of ninety eight pc
titions, however, seventy-two were
der advisement and one was that of
a prisoner released on parole after
filing his application.
Hall, now seventy eight years old
and feeble, has been in state prison
since December II, 1910. He was
sentenced from Blue Earth county for
second degree murder for having shot
and killed his niece's husband. He
has maintained that the shooting was
accidental and that he was guiltless
of any crime.
The husband of another of his nieces
urged pardon for the old man, as
surfing the board he would provide him
with a home for the remainder of his
days.
Communications For Ten.
Ten prisoners obtaining cOmmuta-
tons which will enable immediate or
ri al
Victor Bordeaux, in Minneapolis
workhouse for taking an automobile
without the owners consent, six
months sentence, committed to two
months to expire August Is.
Frank Trezza, in prison for shoot
ing and killing two men in park at
Rochester in 1908, life sentence, COM
muted to thirty years.
d. J. Peltier, in prison for statutory
crime committed in Carlton county in
1914, indefinite sentence of seven
years maximum committed to two
years.
w. J. Forsythe, in prison for rob-
berry committed in Minneapolis in 1911
ltwenty-year sentence committed to
lindeterminate sentence of fifteen year
maximum.
Victor Carlson, in reformatory for
larceny of automobile tires in Min
neapolis in 1915, indeterminate SEN
tence of five years maximum commut-
ed to nine and one-half months.
Julia Green, in prison upon convic-
tion of statutory offense at Austin in
1916, indeterminate sentence of two
years maximum committed to six
months.
Henry Staples in reformatory for
furnishing liquor to person of Indian
blood in 1915, indeeterminate sentence
of two years maximum committed to
one year.
A. R. Kelly, in Minneapolis work
house for checking on bank without
funds in February, one-year sentence
committed to six months.
William Long, in prison for forgery
in Big Stone county in 1914, indeter-
inmate sentence of five years maxi
mum commuted to two and one-half
years.
Paul Bieber, in prison for grand
larceny in st. Paul in 1918, indeter-
inmate sentence of five years maxi
mum committed to two and one-half
years.
Two Under Amusement.
The petitions of Kid Scully and Roy
Adair, both convicted on statutory
charges, were taken under advisement
by the pardon board. Scully's wife
pleaded that he be liberated so he
might, if possible, partly regain his
sight through medical treatment out
side the prison.
Mrs. Adair, 10 gears old, and with
two young dependent children, told
the board that Adair's family needs
him.
Martin Pettcoff, who crazed by
drink, his attorney said, after his life
savings of $1,000 were wiped out by
a SANDER suit verdict, shot and killed
the wrong man in st. Paul in 1913,
failed to gain pardon.
Among the other continued cases is
that of Henry Prolow, lifer, for hav-
ling killed a Goodhue saloonkeeper
in 1906, and for whom former Cover
nor S. r. Van SAINT and former War
den Wolfer interceded.