Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-06-30

lizen un,awfuliy within the territory OF
the United States.
The latest petition asked that PARDON
be granted on the condition that Linz
be surrendered to the custody OF
United states officer authorized to ar
rest on the complaint Of being In TINS
country unlawfuliy. and II Linn be NOT
ordered deported from the United
states by the federal authorities tnen
| this pardon shall be null and VOID.
i Text Of Petition.
The full text Of Linn's petition tor
pardon is as follows:
Respectfully represent that Tsi
Linn, otherwise called 7. s. Linn
convict under sentence OF 10 years
IMPRISONMENT for assault with intent
to kill, and F'u-yun Chang OF cam
bridge. Mass. that at the August term.
1911, said Linn was indicted Tor as
sault with intent to kill one Christine
Shaw; that at said term he was SEN
fenced to IS years imprisonment for
said assault with intent to kill; that ne
has been incarcerated In our state s
prison at Thomaston since August,
1911; that he has atoned for SAID as
sault with intent to kill; that while In
carcerated in states prison he has been
a model prisoner that while incarcer-
ated in said prison he has contracted
tuberculosis: that he deems that he
has been sufficiently punished and that
further imprisonment would not be
punishment to him and would serve no
useful purpose.
And your petitioners further repre-
sent that on the sixth day of December.
A. D., 1915, they brought petition for
the pardon of said Linn, which was
.hearl by HIS Excellency. the governor,
and his council on the Goth day of De-
cember. that said pardon was granted
on conditions as follows:
"On condition that said Linn shall
not leave the states prison at Thomas
ton except upon guaranty by the CHM
ese minister that he shall be deported
and in the custody of an officer ap
pointed by the governor who shall
conduct him from said states prison
and place him at San Francisco or
some other port of embarkation forth
with upon a steamer which Is bound
for China, said officers expenses to be
paid by the prisoner, and also pro-
vided that if the said Linn shall here
after at any time return to the Unit
eG States of America this pardon shall
be null and void and he shall serve the
remainder of his sentence at our
states prison"
And your petitioners further aver that
said condition is impossible of fulfill
D1ent for the reason that the Chinese
;pic or no 1,a
leave the country; that complaint has
been brought by United States Com
missioner Arthur Chapman Of Portland,
that said Linn is Chinese citizen un-
lawfully within the territory of the
United States and liable as such to
deportation.
Wherefore your petitioners respect
fully pray that this honorable body ex-
tend to him executive clemency and
grant to said Linn a pardon upon the
following condition which this honor
able body may see fit to impose:
Whereas complaint has been made
before United States Commissioner
Arthur Chapman of Portland in the
District of Maine. that said Linn Is a
Chinese subject unlawfully within the
territory of the United States, and
whereas said complaint alleges that
said Linn is liable for deportation for
such reason, this pardon is hereby
granted to said Linn, on condition that
ne be delivered by the warden of our
states prison into the custody of a
United States officer authorized to ar
rest him on the above complaint and
or condition that if after hearing be-
fore said United States Commissioner.
Arthur Chapman, on the complaint
aforesaid, said Linn be not ordered de-
ported from the United States by the
1ederal authorities then this pardon
shall be null and void.
petition for the pardon of Frank P.
Farks' who is serving life sentence in
the States prison at Thomaston for
murder was received at the execut We de-
partment at the State House Friday and
a nearing assigned at a session of the
governor and council. to be held July %.
In his petition Parks states that he was
indicted at the May term af the supreme
judicial court for York county at Alfred
in May, 1899, for the murder of Marv
FELTON,. He was found guilty and SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life in the
State prison and since that time he has
been in the execution Of that sentence.
He now asks executive clemency and
that after full consideration of his case
and the full facts surrounding the same,
/ ne may be granted a pardon or a COM
mutation to a sentence Of 25 years.
| Louis katz was arrested at South Ber
wick while he was in the act of conveying
| liquor from Boston to Portland and AT
the Nav term of the s,1nra,,,o ;,.aia..,