The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-05
PARDON BOARD Will
TAKE ACTION ON $50
PLEAS OF CLEMENCY
II Serving For Murder or Man.
slaughter Seeking Com
mutation or Pardon

With nearly $50 applications be.
fore them, members of the state par.
don board met at the state prison
Monday.
Eleven prisoners serving terms fol
murder or manslaughter are seeking
clemency.
Others who have entered applica.
lions include % inmates serving fol-
grand larceny, 20 for burglary, nine
for forgery, nine for liquor law VIC.
lations, 10 for robbery, four for EN-.
bezzlement, three for non-support
and the remainder for miscellaneou.
offenses. Fourteen released prisoner.
are asking for restoration of citizen.
ship or full pardons.
Prisoners serving life for murder
who are asking clemency. are:
Andrew Anderson, sentenced from
Burke county, January, 1919; apply.
ing for communication of sentence.
Joe Berger, sentenced from Suits.
man county. January, 1924; applying
for communication.
Sam Kallel, sentenced from Penn.
bina county, January, 1922; applying
for communication, pardon or parole.
D. M. Noah, sentenced from Ware
county, May, 1910; conditional par
don sought.
Served IL Years
Clarence Orion, sentenced from
Towner county, April, 1915; commu
tation sought.
Joseph Thronson, sentenced from
Grand Forks county, January, 1920
communication or parole sought.
Joseph w. Holmes, sentenced from
Golden Valley county Feb. S, 1924
to serve 80 years for second -degre,
murder. is asking for commutatio,
or pardon.
Four men serving terms for man
slaughter and seeking clemency are:
John w. Jevnaker, sentenced from
Ramsey county. January, 1928, l.
years; communication sought.
Lawrence Osman, sentenced from
Ransom county, December, 1881, fiv
years; parole sought.
Fred Rutschke, sentenced from
Dickey county, October, 1881, fiv
years; communication sought.
Joseph Walsh, sentenced from Edd
county, November. 1890, eight years
communication sought.
Robert Caldwell sentenced from
Cass county Feb. Is, 1928, to serve
life term after conviction of obtain
ing money under false pretenses, ha
applied for conditional pardon.
Detelf Dahl, who was sentence,
from Pierce county last July for ma
licious injury to railroad property,
asking for a communication or parol
OF his indeterminate sentence of on
and one-half to four years.
Extortionist Wants Parole
Sentenced last July from Richlan
county for attempted extortion, 10
seph A. Dorm has applied for a com
mutation or parole.
| Aldrich Johnson, who has bee,
serving five-year term for attempt
ed murder seeks parole or commu
tation. He was convicted in Cas-
county in April, 1881.
Otto A. Kruger, serving a seven
year term since February, 1881, 70
attempted bank robbery in Loga,
county, has entered an application
for communication or parole.
Andrew j. Reichert, sentenced from
Stark county in October, 1925, t
serve 20 years for attempted murder
seeks communication.
The meeting will be the final on
for the pardon board as it is nov
composed. Governor George F.. Sha
fer and Attorney General James Nor
ris will be replaced after Jan. 3 b.
Governor Elect William LANCER an,
Attorney General-Elect A. j. Gronna
The three other members of tn
board are Chief Justice A. NJ. Chris
tianson, j. E. Davis of Bismarck an,
John L. Hulteng of Grand Forks.
An application for clemency mad
by Floyd johnson, whose mother
suing William LANCER, Bismarck, TO
recovery Of $4,000 attorneys fees sll
alleges to have paid him to work TO
the release of her son, serving a lif
sentence for murder, is not listed o.
the calendar. The board must frs
rule as to whether he will be granite,
a hearing, as life prisoners must serv
half of their life expectancy befor
| they are entitled to apply for par
don.
The board is expected to rule o.