Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-06-08
5 5Slayers
Will Seek
Clennency
Two Omaha Murderers Among
81 Convicts TO Appear Be-
fore State Pardons Board
June 10.
Ask For Communication

Lincoln, June Especial. Five
convicted murderers will be appli-
cants for parole, commutation of
sentence or pardon, before the Ne
braska state board of pardons and
paroles at its next hearing June 10
at the state penitentiary.
Two of them are from Omaha.
In addition, there are II other
Omaha convicts applying for parole
at this hearing, out of a total of "a
applicants.
Floyd Fuller, who shot and killed
Dorothy RAIDER Carberry during the
Christmas holidays of 1916 at Twen-
~.ty-sixth and Farnam streets in
Omaha as she stepped from street
car, is' asking for commutation of
sentence.
Claims Self Defense.
He began serving life sentence in
/ 1917. He pleads the Carberry wo-
man threatened to prosecute him
for violation of the Mann act when
he left her to return to his wife and
children in York and that the crime
for which he was convicted occurred
when he was under the influence of
liquor.
William Fouse, Omaha negro
serving life for killing a Fort Crook
soldier with a brick during an early
morning fight in the old tenderloin
district in 1908, seeks communication.
Fouse was first sentenced to hang.
He always claimed he slew the SOL
dier in self defense.
Prison Librarian.
r. G. Lukins, serving life for
murder i'll Cheyenne county in 1916,
is seeking pardon. He holds let
ter to the pardon board from Gov
ernor Sproul of Pennsylvania urging
clemency.
Lukins is prison Librarian and is
now earning $3.50 month as ad-
yertising specialist for a Lincoln fur
niture firm.
Lukins was arrested by posse
near Sidney while with Frank Con-
nell, who slew several of the posse
pursuing him for the robbery of a
bank. Connell is also serving life.
Lukins protests total innocence. He
has letter from his prosecuting at
torney urging clemency.
Jumps Parole.
Walter G. Rifenburg, sentenced to
life from Brown county in 1911 for
~killing a man during holdup and
dragging his body into barn, is
seeking conlmutation of the 25-year
sentence assessed at new trial.
After Rifenburg served several
years of his sentence he was paroled,
jumped his parole to Denver, en-
listed in the Canadian army for a
year and a half. returned to Denver
and became night clerk in one OF the
leading hotels there.
His lust for publicity. however, led
him to tell lurid tale of the Ar
gonne drive, Flanders fields and the
ike to Denver reporter, and when
his picture was printed with the
story prison officials saw it and got
him.
Asks Communication.
Halle ]. Blevins, serving 10 years
for second degree murder in Butler
county, asks commutation of sem
tence. Blevins' wife went to a dance
one night, leaving HIM at home with
the children.
Jealousy filled his breast, he got
gun and went to the corner to wait
for the man who was to bring her
home.
The man got out OF the automo-
bile two blocks away and another
woman with Vernon Gooden drove
Mrs. Blevins home. Blevins leaped
on the running board and slew
Gooden. When he learned his error
he gave himself up to the authori-
ties.
Douglas County Convicts.
The other Douglas county convicts
who are seeking parole are:
Emisley F. Andrews. sentenced in
1921 to one to 10 years for breaking
and entering; Ferdinand Branden-
burg, 1919, forgery, l-20; Levi Deer
ing, 1920, larceny from the person,
IL: Gladis Harper, 1919, forgery,
~f-20; James Jones. 1920, grand lar
ceny, II; John Johnson, 1920, re-
ceiving stolen automobiles. LILO; Al
bert Presi Preisner, 1918, assault
with intent to rob, 2-l5; Loretta
Price, 1919, larceny from the person,
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