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Chief cause of the riot seemed to be resentment against the State Pardon & Parole Board's administration of the indeterminate sentence law, by which the Board, and not judge or jury, ultimately fixes the time a prisoner must serve. Said round-faced, Roman Catholic Chaplain Elegius Weir: "One of the principal objections of the prisoners is that although all ten members of the Board pass upon the parole applications, only three of them actually come here to hear the cases. They claim they are allowed only one or two minutes to present their cases. They say they are sworn...
...Officer McElliott's misfortune to be convicted last year of an "indirect" violation of the Volstead Act for which he was fined $100. Rather than pay the fine he languished in jail, the while appealing to the White House. Last week President Hoover granted him a full pardon, remitted his fine, because he had been a good policeman for 20 years...
Similarly most kings make it a policy to pardon men for attempting their lives, when they would never think of pardoning them for attempting citizens' lives. The monarch hopes he will be thought "magnanimous," dare not be thought "vengeful...
...people, not two percent of them would have voted for it. Would we have apologized, under identical circumstances, to the president of Liberia? Should the president of Nicaragua be miffed at some careless statement of an army officer, would we get down on our knees and pray for his pardon? Can you imagine this country debasing itself just because some petty potentate of some little two-by-four country was peeved at the careless remark of some Marine? If not, why do we become hysterical when Mussolini cracks his whip? Let each man draw his own conclusion...
...Power to pardon rests with His Majesty's Home Secretary, at present the Rt. Hon. John Robert Clynes, onetime worker in a cotton mill. One night last week he sat up late, thought about one Olive Catherine Wise. She had put a baby (hers) in an oven (cold) and turned on the gas. She had been sentenced to hang. Were there extenuating circumstances...