The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-12
BLAINE GRANTS
! HIM LENIENCY
Charles Hansen, Kenoshan
Of Many Wives, is Re-
leased from Prison.
CLEMENCY FOR TEN
Five Conditional Pardons and
Five Communications of SEN
fences Are Announced.

Charles Hansen, the Kenosha man,
who when he was arrested a year ago
in New York on charge of abandon-
ment of his wife and children in Ke-.
nosha, was found to have two too
many wives, and who sentenced to
serve, two years in the state prison
on an Abandonment charge, was con-
ditionally released from the state
prison today on an order for leniency
granted by Governor Blaine. He is to
return to Kenosha to support his wife
and children.
Hansen was sentenced December 81,
1924, to a two-year term on charge
of abandonment. He had been ar
rested few weeks before that in New
York City only a few hours after his
marriage to a. shop girl in that city.
Investigation revealed that he also
had wife in California. He had
neglected to secure divorce from
any one of his first two wives before
marrying the third.
HIS nrst wife, WHO nov r6idss in
Kenosha with their children, had
Joined in the request for clemency to
secure support for herself and chill
dren.
No Mention of Schlecht.
No mention was made in the report
ON applications for cIemency regard
ing the appeal for clemency for Will
liam Schlecht, former cashier of the
Silverlake State bank, who was sem
tenced to seven-year term for viola
tion of the state banking laws. This
is evidently still under consideration.
Five other conditional pardons and
FIVE communications of sentences were
announced by the governor.
One OF those granted conditional
pardon was William Chaimson, who
has been serving a sentence of one
year in the Green Bay reformatory on
manslaughter charge in connection
with an automobile accident in Brown
county.
Girl Burned to Death.
The record shows that Chaimson,
returning from dance late at night
with young woman, ran into q car
ahead of him, striking the gasoline
tank, which resulted in an explosion.
The young woman fell under the car,
due to the impact, and was burned.
Chaimson was alleged to have left the
scene of the accident before ascertain
ing what happened to the girl. He
plead guilty to the charge of man
slaughter and sentenced April IL, last.
The date of the sentence and the
meeting date of the board of parole
at Green Bay would deprive Chaimson
of the benefits of the parole law, the
executive said, and he should not be
specially punished because of this.
Some 700 citizens of his home county
petitioned for his release on parole.
Charles H. Emery, II, of Marathon.
county, who was sentenced February
2, 1898, to life Imprisonment on
murder charge, was granted COM
mutation of sentence, with restoration
of civil rights. He has been on pa
role since October 5, 1914.
William H. Froehlich, 81, of Jack
son, Wis, sentenced October Is, 1928,
to FIVE years for embezzlement, was
conditionally pardoned. He was
charged with certain alleged defalca-
tions. 1t appears that he was a sort
of advisor to and custodian OF the
funds of his neighbors. Because of
his age and the conviction that society
would gain nothing by keeping Froeh-
Itch in Jail, he was released.
Leon Drew, Milwaukee, who was
sent to the House Of Correction on an
abandonment charge for two years,
was conditionally pardoned.
The sentence Of Charles Watcher, an
alien, convicted in Portage county of
assault with intent to rob, and sem
fenced in September, 1924, to twenty
five years, will be committed to day
and an hour when federal agent may
take him into custody for deportation,
Governor Blaine announced.
One On Dry Law Charge.
Those granted pardons include Will
liam Gavigan, Milwaukee; Raymond
Ducat, Brown county; Frank Garry,
Rock county, and Joseph Kasmer,
Milwaukee. Gavigan was given a SEN
tence last June of one year in the re-
formatory for taking an automobile
without the owners consent. Ducat
was sentenced last February to two
years in the reformatory on a burglary
charge. Garry was sentenced last
August to four months in the House
Of Correction for violating the prohi-
bition law. Confinement aggravates
his physical condition, the governor
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