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Three years after Roy Hollis arrived in Rutledge, 1,500 citizens of the town and county, impressed by his industry and honesty, had signed a petition asking the state pardon board to lift his parole. Trapped by his neighbors' good will, the fugitive confessed. The petition was destroyed. In the years that followed, all Rutledge had protected him with silence...
Damyankees. In Columbus, Ohio's Pardon and Parole Commission decided to let Phil Sheridan go free, keep Robert E. Lee locked...
...innocent of any crime. Yet he had spent three years and four months in Sing Sing prison for a forgery he did not commit. Last week portly Bertram M. Campbell (TIME, Aug. 6), a free man again, got a magnanimous pardon from the state...
...little embarrassing for all concerned: the Governor who pardoned the innocent man had been the District Attorney who sent him up the river. But the ceremony went off without a hitch. Governor Thomas E. Dewey summoned Campbell from New York City to the Executive Chamber in Albany. There, in Campbell's presence, he signed a specially engraved document. The traditional wording of a pardon had been changed from "fit object of our mercy" to "innocent of the crime for which he was convicted...
...after death with your souls." When he heard the news of his son's death in battle, his only visible emotion was to crush a flower bud in his hand. He held out against surrender. Before committing harakiri, he wrote a farewell to his Emperor ("I humbly beg . . . pardon ... for my great sins") and a poem...