Show 1 I 1 av agy Z 4 B it 7 EW Y 1 1 si in ariss I 1 att vt z jw y p ff 1 6 DEAD A M THIRTY ccase C ASE OP A PRISONER IN NEW t YORK LATELY batet Y PARDONED xeng I le ecal CAI exclusion front from the world to 0 o IS do followed by i to taie and freedom stal all maintain im HI in s of t the h e crin crime e a ROUGH brough the I 1 cle clemency mincY bot form er gov ayrton there 7 will emerge from 1 V i ams pms prison walls lulo freedom next spring a man who has suffered a living death tor for more it than thirty one years the first thought that naturally comes is that this man will he be almost overcome with joy at th the e prospect of his release but on second thought says the albany express grave doubt arises as to whether this unfortunate man wi be even as content as he must have learned to b be e in prison when he is again out in the world free to go where he be pleases Please 2 he himself probably has no such doubt now but it is much to be feared that when the prison doors have closed behind him he will realize what it is impossible for him to realize now at the age of 66 years he will be utterly alone in the world without resources without physical strength to make his way through what little of life may remain to him she that was his wife it if she still lives is s the wife of another for he was waa legally dead when the life sentence had bad been imposed upon him and she exercised her right to marry again those who were his friends all those years ago are dead or scattered through the world he 4 Z 11 1 I 1 to 1 or I 1 N 51 ori 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 k I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 P GEORGE E GORDON will be a stranger among strangers there is none to whom he can turn for sympathy for aid or even for or the opportunity port unity of making a living moreover there will come to him as never before perhaps the realization that his life with all the opportunities which it might have held has all but passed away gov morton before the expiration of his term commuted the life sentence of george E gordon now in danne mora prison to fifty two years so that he will be released on may 8 next the time off tor for good behavior being allowed gordon was sentenced in this city in 1866 to life imprisonment after conviction of the murder of a stock drover by the name of thompson in the west albany cattle yards gordon was a resident of greenbush and was 35 years of age when convicted the application for pardon has been on an file in the executive chamber tor for twenty years and was s signed by some of the most prominent people and public officials in rensselaer county gordon r is at present the prison librarian at dannemora Dann emora and his good conduct during his long confinement together with the tact fact that he has always contended that he did not commit the crime led to the governors favorable action on the application tor for clemency under the law at that time a person charged with murder could not testify in his own behalf behalf but he then declared his innocence he was convicted on circumstantial evidence considered strong |