Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of May 28, col. 1, p. 12, you say, "Steunenberg was the target for the miners' rage; in 1906 he was the target for a bullet that killed him." The facts are that a bomb was placed at the gate opening into the lawn of the Governor's home in Caldwell. When the Governor opened the gate he was literally blown up. Harry Orchard confessed to having placed the bomb and was sentenced to prison for life...
Last month, Ben Bess got out of jail. Governor Richards pardoned him. The pardon was the result of Maude Collins' confession-now that she is 60 and expecting Death soon-that she had sworn falsely about Ben Bess...
...Bess came out of jail but he had no farm to go to. The lawyers had eaten that up long ago. Thirteen years at hard labor had aged and broken him. He had a bad cough. People sent him money and the Legislature will probably provide for him. But Governor Richards agreed that South Carolina's debt to Ben Bess is irreparable...
Perhaps it was to prove that he really felt badly about it that Governor Richards last week gave the Ben Bess case a new twist. He wrote a letter to the solicitor of the Florence district and suggested that he present to the Grand Jury the white trash woman, Maude Collins, now 60 years old and expecting Death soon...
Sacred are the relations of host and guest. Recently a trinity of hosts-the City of New York, its Mayor and President Coolidge-entertained Prince Ludovico Spada Varalli Potenziani, the tall, cadaverous Governor of Rome. Last week Guest Potenziani returned to Italy and on landing at Naples spoke as follows of his hosts...