Annual Report of the Attorney General of the United States

William K. Reed..

District of Colum- | Murder bia.

To be hanged Aug. May 3, 1899 | On Sept. 4, 1898, the prisoner, Wil4, 1899.

Sentence com- | July 25
muted to im-
prisonment
for life.

List of pardons granted by the President during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900-Continued.

by Executive elemency, and it is to be assumed that the opinion of the jurors was that some mitigation of the extreme penalty of the law might properly be interposed, and was, perhaps, called for under the evidence. The question is what this mitigation should be. I do not think it should be less than imprisonment for life. It has been represented to me that imprisonment for a term of 10 or 15 years would be adequate under the circumstances. I do not think so. The violent tendencies of the prisoner on this and other occasions, as demonstrated by the evidence, and the enormity of his offense, call for his perpetual restraint for the remainder of his life. I therefore recommend that the sentence of death be commuted | to life imprisonment.

2 years and 6 months July 20, 1897 Prisoner was sentenced July 20,

in United States

1897, to 2 years' imprisonment.
Appellate proceedings stayed the
execution of the sentence until
June 1, 1899, but in the meantime
prisoner was kept in jail at Mus-
cogee. As the proceedings on ap-
peal appear to have been taken in
good faith and not for delay, I con-
cur with the judge and district
attorney in thinking he should
have his time in jail count for
him. I therefore advise that
upon payment of the fine and
costs sentence be commuted to
expire Aug. 11, 1899.

On the 5th of July, instant, Dr. F.
A. Wagenhals, physician of the
Ohio penitentiary, reported the
condition of John Jamison as fol-
lows: "He is in the last stages of
consumption and can not possibly
live but a few months." Again
on the 10th instant the assistant
physician to the penitentiary re-
ported as follows: "For his phys-

Name.

List of pardons granted by the President during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900—Continued.

District.

John Jamison

Ohio, southern

W. I. Gill

Kentucky.

Making, having in
possession, and
passing counter-
feit coin, and
making and hav-
ing in possession
molds for coun-
terfeit money.
Retailing liquor
without having
paid the special

tax.

ical condition is such that he can scarcely walk. There is entire consolidation of the left lung and the lower lobe of the right lung. In my opinion he will not live 3 months în confinement." Upon these facts the pardon is recommended.

4 months in county May 11, 1899 Prisoner was guilty of selling liquor jail at Covington,

Ky., and fine of

$400.

at retail without having paid the special tax. He was sentenced to 4 months' imprisonment. The judge and district attorney recommend that he be pardoned because of tho fatal illness of his wife. I advise that sentence of imprisonment be commuted to expire Aug. 1, 1899.

5 years in United May 6, 1898 Petitioner, a youth of 17 or 18 years,

States peniten

tiary at Fort Leavenworth.

The

plead guilty to the larceny of a pony in Indian Territory. The minimum penalty for horse theft in that jurisdiction is 5 years, which sentence he received. pony was worth less than $5. It is probable that the youth took the pony more upon the suggestion of another person than upon his own impulse to steal it. He is said to be somewhat feeble minded. He has now been in prison a year and 3 months. I think his punishment has been sufficient, and advise that he be pardoned.

2 years in United Nov. 3, 1898 Petitioner is recommended for a

States peniten

tiary at McNeils
Island and fine of
$100 and costs.

Santiago Emerson

New Mexico

Perjury.

1 year in New Mexico penitentiary.

Jan. 14, 1899

pardon on the ground that he is now very ill with consumption and is liable to die in a short time.

Prisoner, an Indian boy 17 years
old, plead guilty to an indictment
for perjury and was sentenced to
a year's imprisonment Jan. 14,
1899. The superintendent of In-

dian school service recommends
that he be now pardoned, believ-
ing that his punishment has been
adequate and the example to
others sufficient. The trial judge
and district attorney concur, and
I so advise.
Petitioner was convicted of remov-
ing distilled spirits in violation of
sec. 3257, R. S. The minimum pun-
ishment for this is 3 months' im-
prisonment and a fine of $200,
which the court imposed. The
trial judge and district attorney
report that Brown, while techni-
cally guilty, did not willfully vio-
late the law, and recommend that
he be pardoned. I so advise.
I advise a pardon in this case be-
cause of prisoner's ill health.
The petitioner plead guilty to an
indictment for mailing an obscene
letter and was sentenced to im-
prisonment for 1 year, of which
time he has served 4 months.
It appears from the report of the
district attorney that the letter
was written in response to one
received by the prisoner, which
contained matter of great provo-
cation, to which he replied in the
heat of his passion, without hav-
ing in mind the fact that the
transmission of such matter
through the mails was criminal.
The defendant is not an habitual
lawbreaker, and does not appear
to have been before guilty of this
or any other offense against the
laws. I think he has been suffi-
ciently punished, and that the
mitigating circumstances re-
ported by the district attorney
entitle him to a pardon, and I so
recommend.

The prisoner was sentenced to 6
months' imprisonment for buy-
ing cattle of Indians without per-
mission from the agent in charge.
This was the minimum sentence
allowed by the statute. The dis-
trict attorney reports that the

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