The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-30
PARDON board
DENIES PAROLE
TO EX-BANKER
Shelburn EmbezzIer Has
Not Paid Penalty, Say
Prison Trustees.
CLEMENCY is GRANTED
Several State Prisoners to
Get New Chances in
Outer World.
By United Press

By United Press
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Jan. 40
The penalty which Jessup r
Bolinger, former president of the
First State bank OF Shelburn. Ind
has paid for forgeries and specuIa,
lions totaling some 100000 has not
oeen sufficient to atone for the
crime, the state pardon and parole
board decided today in denying his
plea for a parole.
Bolinger is serving two-to-
1ourteen-year sentence on a forgery
conviction.
testimony in Bolinger's trial re-
vealed large forgeries, with core
spending speculation on the stock
market. Sentence was passed on :
Speclnc charge of forging the name
OF w. E. GaSkins," Shelburn, to a
note for $500, but he confessed
forgeries Of $235,O00, of which
$4,000 was held by the PEOPLES
bank, Shelburn.
Several Paroles Granted
Paroles granted today included:
Carrie Bush, Marion county, incest.
Two TO twenty-one years; Albert
holman, La Porte county, forgery.
2-l4; William Burden, Lake county
forgery, 2-14; William Carroll
Clarke county, blackmaiI. is: I,e-
roy Smith, Allen county, receiving
stoien goods, 1-5; William Hunter,
Lake county, embezzlement, is.
Present economic and unemploy-
ment conditions were uppermost in
the minds of the prison trustees in
considering the cases before them.
OF the thirty petitions asking
pardons, paroles and combinations
OF sentences Thursday, only one
parole was granted. All other pleas
were rejected or consideration was
postponed.
The board took the stand that
prisoners were at better ADVANTAGE
under custody of the state than
out in civil life where few, if any,
would be able to obtain employ
ment.
The only prisoner paroled Thurs
day was Samuel Lawson, sentenced
to two to fourteen years in Marion
county on a charge Of forgery. He
gained freedom on a plea that his
wife and three children were desti-
tute.
Slayer's Petition Studied
The pardon board laid aside for
further study the parole petition Of
Charles Born, sentenced in 1918 from
Jefferson county on murder charge
in connection with Staying OF his
sweetheart with butcher knife.
Warden Walter DAILY and the Coy
ernor will make final decision in the
case of Henry Davis, sentenced from
Marion county to one to ten years
on al auto banditry charge. He is
asking for parole on the ground that
he is suffering from tuberculosis and
wishes to enter a hospital.
Continue Ex-Pastor's Case
The parole case of Game Phelps.
former Negro pastor at Methodist
Episcopal church at Mt. Vernon,
now serving sentence of five to
tWenty-one years for statutory Of
Tense, was continued until the Oc-
tc0er pardon board session.
Posey county relatives of Phelps
charged the former pastor was
framed" during factiona1 disturb
anceS within the church.
Pending further investigation,
parole was denied John H. Bonner.
sentenced to one to ten years in
Lake county on a charge of assault
and battery with intent to kill.
Bandit Denied Clemency
Parole was denied Frederick Clark,
sentenced to ten to twenty-one years
in st. Joseph county on a holdup
charge. The Rev. Earl Hart.
Michigan City pastor, interceded for
HIM.
Postponement until after parole
was made in the case of Henry Rose,
asking Communication of his two to
twenty-one years sentence from st.
Joseph county for a statutory Of
Tense.
Parole was refused Grover Rogers,
sentenced from Tippecar,oe county
to serve a life sentence on a
statutory offense cow ction, al
though a petition bearing 226 names
and his attorneys pleaded his
mental condition warranted release.
Plea for parole was of no avail to
Jake Sley, sentenced to life in Lake
county on a murder charge. Ten
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