Evening star., 1925-01-11

asserts, that / couldn't do anything
at all; that I didn't have any amount
of money except my monthly check
Of $500"
The governor told me. he was
hard up; that he was in a worse fix
than 1 was" the affidavit continues.
He said one favor calls for another
and he told me he thought maybe l
would do a little something for him.
Il told him | was sorry-that he
should have told me a year ago, when
I was up for parole and had plenty
Of money.
He asked me again If I was sure
didn't have any money. We walked
on out to the governors mansion and
bade him good night"
The following morning, according
to Glenn A. Davis, the governor told
him he thought he could depend upon
a 20-year Communication and per-
manent parole. When Davis insisted
upon a pardon. the applicant was
requested to obtain a letter from the
board of administration. and this he
says he did. The letter, he states,
recommended pardon. When he
presented the letter to the governor,
Davis AYERS that the governor tossed
1t aside and said that he had decided
to adhere to his original intention.
Davis declares he still insisted upon
pardon and that, in the course of
ensuing conversation, the governor
referred to Pollmaf.
He said Pollman had made the
statement that he had everything
fixed for pardon, but that he was
out of luck" the affidavit resumes.
He told me he would like to have
me go to Kansas City and tell
Pollman that. 1 told him l would
go and asked him what sort of mes
sage he wanted me to deliver to
Pollman.
"The governor told me TO advise
Pollman to employ one OF my agents
if he wanted things done. I asked
him who his agents were and how
much money 1t would take and that
l wanted to be sure to recon-
uRnd the best agent. He told me II
Pollman would take $3.50 down TO
his farm and employ his boy that he
would get what he wanted, as he
paid a great deal of attention to
| what his boy said. He also said that
if Pollman did this he might look
at my case in a different light. The
| governor advised me to be careful
OF the way l talked to Pollman."
The affidavit then asserts that he
| decided to tell Pollman tie exact
| facts. He failed TO get in touch will
| Pollman on his arrival in Kansa:
| City, Davis said, and telephoned tC
| Ben c. Johnson. whom he had known
| as an officer at the penitentiary a.
! Lansing. He went to Johnsons home
| Davis stated, and communicated hi:
| mission to Johnson. He later got il
! touch with Pollman, and all three
went to Pollman's room, where Davis
| gave Pollman the governors message
| the affidavit states.
The next day." continues the af-
! fidavit, "Pollman told me TO go back
| to Gov. Davis and tell him 1 had not
| found Polilnan and asked me to write
a letter telling what the Governor
| said"
On that day, December 90. 1924, he
| went back to Topeka, Davis asserts
| adding that the governor seemed tc
! be disappointed.
| II went to Hutchinson" the af-
| fidavit continues, there on December
| "a. 1924, Johnson and Walter G.
| Heren, a reporter for the Journal
Post, visited me. 1 promised Pollmar
| and Johnson that 1 would write q
| letter to the Governor telling him
had seen the friend he wished me tc
see and had conveyed his message
That letter was written Christmas
| day. December %, 1924"