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Last week Governor Dewey had to set a new date (the fourth) for the execution of Lepke. The occasion reminded him once again, and he duly reminded reporters, of "the failure of the President of the United States to grant the customary conditional pardon...
Robert Elliott Burns (I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang) lost a plea for a Georgia pardon. Now a Newark, N.J. tax consultant, U.S. Fugitive No. 1 had the backing of Georgia's Governor Ellis G. Arnall, but the best the pardon board would offer was: "If and when the escapee surrenders . . . the board . . . will be happy to investigate...
...night Fate scratched timorously at Ca-Reer Garson's dressing-room door. There was a man to see her. "If it's stockings," called Miss Garson, "I don't want any." "Beggin' your pardon, Miss," said the stage doorkeeper, "He's from Mr. Mayer." "Hyphens and all?" gasped Miss Garson...
Whose Lepke? To put Lepke in New York's official hands, the U.S. Government must issue a conditional pardon. On three occasions, says the Kings County attorney, he has formally asked Washington to hand Lepke over. But Lepke was not delivered. Smoking good cigars, his shoes highly polished, his manner debonair, he was photographed from time to time on his way to & from Supreme Court appeals, etc. The Justice Department says primly that New York's Governor has never asked for the prisoner except indirectly, "through the newspapers...
...Lepke in big-time politics, the Governor wrote: "I have twice respited the executions of Capone and Weiss because I will not consider their cases while the principal defendant [Lepke] is protected from punishment by the failure of the President of the United States to grant the customary conditional pardon...