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Show liCOffiSEQ CRIME THAT HE DENVER. May 1 An official recommendation rec-ommendation ha6 been made to the stato pardon board to release from the state penitentiary E W. Ger-brick, Ger-brick, who was sentenced last July to a term of from 30 to 40 years for ha ing caused the wreck of a Santa Fo railroad train at Apishapa. Colorado, Colo-rado, October 30, 1903. Gerbrick was sentenced on his own confession but Warden Tynan became convinced, before be-fore Gerbrick had been In the penitentiary peni-tentiary manyweeks, that the man had confessed to a crime ho never committed and because of his lovo for notoriety. Gerbrick, after imprisonment impris-onment had freed him from the influence in-fluence of the drug habit, told the warden where he had been working at Leon! and Grass Lake, Michigan, at the time of the railroad wreck and Investigation convinced officers of-th.e, law that this story was true. Ju5go Riser of the district court and District Dis-trict Attorney Davidson havo Joined in recommending Gcrbrick's release. |