Evening star., 1949-12-24
59 Prisoners
In Maryland Gel
idayParo|es
40 Terms COMMITTED
By Gov. Lane; Lifer's
Sentence Reduced
By the Assoeioted Press

By the Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Dec. a.
Fifty-eight men and a woman
walked out of Maryland penal
institutions yesterday and headed
home for Christmas.
It was approved by the wardens.
Gov. Lane released them for
good, either by parole or tradi-
tional Yuletide combinations.
The Governor also eased q life
sentence on Arthur A. Buckner of
Baltimore, committing it to Is
years. Buckner, 26, was convicted
with three others Of first degree
murder in a Baltimore street
Staying that netted them $26 in
|1943.
40 Get Communications.
Forty prisoners were released
on Christmas combinations.
Their sentences would have ex-
pired normally sometime between
Christmas Day and January IL
OF the others, 28 were freed on
parole. One had his sentence
committed through ordinary pro-
cedure.
All the paroles and Christmas
communications were recommended
by Director F. Murray Benson OF
the Department of Parole and
Probation.
Gov. Lane paroled Howard Nc
Clendon, 40, colored, from a life
sentence ordered in 1884 for the
Staying of a Crisf1eld patrolman
McClendon was convicted of first
degree murder for the shooting
of a policeman his wife called to
their home after a quarrel. In
prison. McClendon said he grab
bed a chisel and cut him."
Mt. Airy Man Goes Free.
Also paroled was Lewis L. Kline,
81, of Mt. Airy, sentenced In 1943
to 18 years in the penitentiary as
an accessory before the fact
to second-degree murder. Fred
erick County police said Kline
opened the door of a country
store, allowing Russell A. Robert
son to slip in and hammer 81
|year-old John H. Gillis, the store
keeper, to death.
Robertson found metal box
containing almost 5000 and
split the money with Kline, police
charged. At their trial, the prose-
cution held Kline primarily to
blame and Robertson drew a
sentence Of only IL years. He
was paroled in 1947.
Among other PAROLES were:
Francis A. Mcpherson, %, for
mer Annapolis policeman con-
victed of assaulting a woman
near his home while of duty
in May, 1948. Mcpherson, SEN
fenced to not more than -four
years in the reformatory. said
he was under a "blackout spell
when he grabbed the woman and
beat her head on a railroad track
Clarence E. Golliday. SO. SEN
fenced to four years in the house
of correction for assault with in
tent to murder his wife. Cora
in their farm tenant house near
Goshen, December 10. 1947. Col
liday was accused Of shatterine
his wife's right hand with a shot
gun blast. the shooting himself
in the side. He said he remem-
bered only asking her for a cur
of coffee before he woke up" ir
a hospital a week later. Golliday
was convicted in Montgomery
County Circuit Court.
Samuel Faunce, "a, st. Marys
County Magistrates Court, served
six months Of one-year term in
house of correction for assault.
John H. Green, Al, colored
Prince Georges County Circuit
Court, served one year of a three
year term In the penitentiary on
charge of larceny for stealing
chickens from the experiment sta
ton of the University Of Maryland,
Herbert Lee McVey, 20. Anne
Arundel County Circuit Court,
served ID months of maximum
three-year term in reformatory
for breaking and entering.