Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-17
.PARDONS COURT
PAROLES WATERS
Has Served ia Months Of Sent
enoe Of 8 to IS Years.
Other Pardons

John L. Waters, of this city, who
was sentenced to from five to fifteen
years in states prison by Judge Peter
#. DAILY on May 10, of last year, on
q charge of criminal assault upon
fifteen year old Rose Karister, a
domestic in the house of Waters, was
today parolled by the State Pardons
Court.
Waters was found guilty of the
charges against him by a jury on
April 80 after they had been out four
and a half hours. The trial lasted
for two days in New Brunswick. Dur
ing the trial Waters made a COM
plete denial of the charges made
against him. He was formerly en-
ployed at the Standard Underground
Cable Works and was prominent in
shooting clubs in this city and vicin-
ity.
Immediate parole RAJ given in the
following cases:
Middlesex, Howard P. Belknap,
breaking and entering, assault with
intent; William johnson, breaking,
entering and larceny: Giuseppe Min
ETH, carnal abuse; Tony Merille, car
nal abuse; John Mokri, alias Laszelo,
~atrocious assault and battery; James
Ward. highway robbery; John l..
Waters, carnal abuse; MAJ Swiller,
carnal abuse, paroled upon payment
of $500 fine.
Monmouth, Gaetane Accera, assault
with intent to kill; James Baxxone,
breaking in with intent.
Andrew vena, of Monmouth Coun-
ty, will be released upon the expira-
ton of his minimum term, he being
charged with keeping a disorderiy
house.
Following is one of the cases re-
ferred to the Prison Board of Man
ayers for disposition: Middlesex,
Edith Royster, assault and battery.
The cases held over until the Nov
ember term include: Middlesex
Francisco CanguinZe, m~anslaughter
Frank Macy, atrocious assault ana
battery; Fred Venable, murder. Mon
mouth. Henry Hohmer, breaking and
entering.
Among the cases to which the a
dons Court today granted elemency as
the result of the work of It's June
term were those of three murderers,
all of whom were serving long sem
fences and had each completed more
than one-third of their penal servi-
tude. Probably the most notable of
these instances is that of Frank Sane,
sentenced February 1, 1905, from Es-
sex county, who began his term two
days later. He has served thirteen
years n was recommended Tor
clemency by Justice Mahlen Pitney,
OF the United States Supreme Court.
Justice Pitney presided owe the trial
of Sane in Essex county, he being at
that time a member of the Supreme
Court of his state. Anither of the
extenuating circumstances in connec-
ton with this case is that Sane's
Is still living at the gaze of 80
years. Sane's sentence was thirty
years. 4,
Edward De Saints, who has served
fifteen years for murder in Passaic
is also paroled. He began
prison life April s, 1904, and his
The third of these cases is that of
Harry Leddy also of Passaic county
Who began a thirty year term for muir
Ter on January 28 1907 and there
ore has completed twelve years In
he state prison.
The Pardons Court completed its
york at Sea Girt yesterday where '
Runyon attended the ses- [
ion. A total of 2S2 applications {
before the court at the JuneI.l
OF t hsft humber 2l2 SMyefsstalrSsmm]t
i, 1918. The memberss and seventy
4 f1Jf county Institutions. Most Of the /
were made personally to the t
,ourt which sat at the state prison. I
a total of thirty-eight paroles IN S
,roson cases were granted and eleven
n county penitentiaries. Ten others
granted TO become eneCtiVe |
he date OF the expiration of the min i
Mum term. Eighteen other cases
referred to Prison Board of Man
gers for their disposition and eleven
Implications were reserved for deci-
sion at the November term of the
The remainder of the apprca-
IONS were dismissed. The total num-
her III cases granted clemency is about
nne-ffth Of the total number OF ap-
nlications heard by the court. l.