Word: pardons
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...little girl took a step forward, caught her frock in both hands as if about to make a curtsy, rose upon her toes, and said in a prim voice, "I beg your pardon...
Willie McGee, convicted of rape, was electrocuted early this morning after three Eliot House residents had made a long-distance call to Mississippi Governor Fielding Wright in a vain effort to obtain a pardon for the condemned...
...Giuliano's end oddly similar to that of U.S. Bandit Jesse James, who was murdered in his St. Joseph, Mo. home in 1882 by his henchmen the Ford brothers, Bob and Charlie, who had joined forces with the police partly in grudge against Jesse, partly to gain a pardon for another bandit, Dick Liddil...
...Manhattan restaurant last fortnight, a hat-check man hung up a battered Western felt, then followed its owner to a table. "Pardon me, sir," said he, "Aren't you Mr. McNaughton of television...
...police of Station 22 to 30 days' imprisonment. Protesting, they were led into the office of Federal Police Chief Arturo Bertollo. Smilingly he offered two choices: appeal the verdict, meanwhile staying in jail, or sign a paper on his desk and receive in return a presidential pardon, which he was empowered to issue forthwith. The paper was a statement acknowledging the accusation but not their guilt. Shea and McCombe signed. Then, with Juan Peron's "pardon," they walked out into the daylight of Buenos Aires...