Evening journal., 1919-06-25
DEFER ACTION ON
PARDON FOR GRECC0
Board Questions Miss Laps.
ley Privately About Some
Phases OF Case
DECISION LIKELY
Ar JULY MEETING
speclal 10 The EyenIpe Journal.


DOVER. Del, June 2j.--No decisiou
was reached by the Board OF Pardonz
yesterday on the application Of PeteE
Greece, who was convicted OF assaultS
ing Miss Mary Lspsley. in Wilmington<
for a pardon. The board may give ila
decision on July TO-
AZ the afternoon session Of the board,
Miss Lapsley the prosecuting witness
against Greece and the one who had
been sought by the Rev Father j. =.
Quigley, Of Wilmington, to~sigu a paper
TO aid in obtaining Grecco's release by
the board. was called into conference
with the three members OF the board
Chancellor Curtis, Secretary Of STATE
johnson and state Auditor Thomp,
son, in order that the members Of ths
board might satisfy themselves as to
certain assertions made at the public
hearing yesterday and at the former
hearing
An affidavit was presented by Dep
.utay Attorney General Green from Mrs
Mary Schwamb. cousin Of the Lapslel
girl. taken before Attorney-Gencral
Reinhardt and was about The same as
testified TO by her husband at The for
mer hearing on June .. Mrs. Schwamb
gave a detailed account OF what hap
pened at their home on the visit ot
Father Quigley in his effort 10 get tbs
the Lapslcy girl to sign a paper in be-
half Of Greece. In part the AFFIDAVIT
set forth
Il am a cousin 10 Mary Lapsley who
came to live at our house sometime in
March. 1918. and has lived with ms
ever since. know Father Quigley. Ils
is a priest OF The Roman Catholic
Church Mary Lapsley in January. 1912.
on a sunday. came home from church
and told me that Father Qugley want
ed her TO sign a paper TO free Greece. [
asked Mary what she was going 90 TO
about il and she said Father Ouiglcv
says ] have 10 sign it. I told her she
did not have 10 sign the paper. and
told her not to sign o. Two o. three
days after this I met Father Quigley at
my mothers house. No. 22i0 Lam0tis
street. lie took me into a room in the
house where We were alone and told
me 10 try and get Mary Lapsley 90 free
Greece. Tie wanted me 10 gel Mary
Lapsey 90 come over TO Father Ou.u-
ley's house and wanted me TO coma
with her. ! told Father 0uclcv [
would deliver the message to Mary. but
! could not say she would come
Sometime during the same WeoS
Father Quigley came TO my house about
half-pasl six o'clock in the evening. Hs
wanted TO see Mary Lapslev ! went
out into The Kitchen end told Mary and
she came into The p9rlor ] came with
her. There were just the three Of us
in the room. Mary said. No, the law
comes first Father Ouiglcy wanted ma
10 free this man Greece lie wanted
her to write a letter and sign a paper
10 the effect that she was not sure that
Greece was the right man. Father Quig-
ley and Mary both got 10 talking loud.
Mary said she would not sign the pa
per because Greece was the man who
lad assaulted her.
81 told Father Quiglcy that Mary
'Ould rot talk because she was under a
bond not 10 talk. About this time my
husband, William II. Schwamb. cana
nto the room. My husband told Father
lugley that Mary was under a bond
rom the attorney generals office. Fath>
,r 0uigley said the attOrney-generaI
'Ould not put Mary under any bond
because the church came before the
avJ I also heard Father Quigley saw
% Mary, II you don't do this youu
rover have any luck as long as YOU
i've heard Father Quigley then say
hat he would go TO Dover and get the
pardon anyhow because he had a pult
here
Then Mary and my husband left ths
Dom and Father Qugley asked me 10
ry and get Mary 10 sign the paper 50
hat this poor unfortunate man Greece
night he free. lie said Mary was onlv
alking through temper There was
Iuite n lot more talk between nv hus-
'and and Father Quigley. but oannoi
emember all that was said"
Following the hearing Miss Lapsle1
enied a newspaper statement 10 the ef1
ect that "she was a Catholic and exI
ected TO remain So" She said she al.
Ways had been Catholic. but now bas
withdrawn from that church.
A second case heard by the Board
{ Pardons yesterday, having been con-
uued from a former meeting. was that
I Theodore Adams, colored. serving .
fe sentence in the New Castle COUNTY
Vorkhouse, for murder committed IN
'ovember, 1906. when Adams and a
rother were both indicted and CON.
ictcd for killing James Redden. also
olored. The brother Of Adams. who
'as also sentenced TO the workhouse,
as died.
Thomas C. Frame, Jr., represented
dams and Deputy Attorney-GeneraI
reen represented the State.
The reason set forth by Adams conn.
Il was that he had served f3 years I'M
le workhouse and had been a model
risoner during that time as stated bv
le workhouse officials Also that thers
as a question as to his guilt. he de-
airing that it was the brother. now
Fad. who had struck the fatal hIov
hich killed Redden. The case was CON.
nued until the next meeting OF tha
Dard