Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hammer; famed Thomas J. Mooney and Warren Billings, sent up for life from San Francisco on evidence since found to be perjured. Currently famed is Mrs. Frances Leano, for whom San Quentin can provide no maternity ward for her soon-expected needs. She may have to be given a pardon...
...That is not within my functions," answered the Judge irritably. "Pardon is a prerogative of the President of the Republic...
...bedroom. He found the old gentleman at his desk again, scratching at his manuscript, still grumbling at patient Sister Theoneste, looking with his cap, his drooping mus-Of Anarchist Emile Cottin Tiger Clémenceau has exclaimed: "The idot! They condemned him to be guillotined. I signed his pardon myself!" tache and slanting eyes more like a venerable Chinese idol than ever...
...increased the capacity. 6) That we went into the Insane Asylum and extracted as many as 1,500 abscessed teeth in one week's time, that had been left in the heads of those poor people as long as 20 years. 7) That we stopped the pardon craze in this State, forced a few people to be hanged, and used the militia where it was necessary. I begin to wonder what kind of respectability or conscience can be attached to your magazine, with the kind of filthy falsehoods that you circulated through this country. You never have explained anything...
...later, when he happened to witness a murder within the prison walls, he refused to "squeal'' and was hurled to the dungeons for the third degree. Harassed, broken, he slew his inquisitor and himself. He did not know that the warden had signed an order for his pardon...