Show Shortening Their Sentenced ALBANY N Y October Governor Hill has commuted to fifteen days each the terms imprisonment of Michael Strph and a number of other boycotters Tvho were convicted with him and aen tenceji to imprisonment for terms rang ing irom a year and a half to three years and eight months These are ther men who forced Brewer Theiss to pay a large sum of money to secure se-cure the removal of the boycott on his own beer on the around that the sum extorted had been expended ex-pended in prosecution of the boycott Governor Hill makes the point that these men did not know they were violating the law in doing as they did such a construction of their acts never before having been laid down by the courts that they did not demand this money secretly or for their own use that the money was actually expended in the boycott that the money collected from 1 heI was returned tu the Union which advanced it The application ap-plication of law having been established estab-lished and the governor having assur t t2ces both from the prisoners and from k e Central Labor Uuion that they will herf ter implicitly obey it and refrain re-frain fronT ex JCting damages for ex pepse of the prosecution of boycotts the ends ju3ticevUave been obtained hence the commutation Thch he grants stipulating distinctly thaw Jntnre violations viola-tions of this statute need expect no clemejicy from him under the commutation commu-tation Thaierms 01 the prisoners expire ex-pire < today I I |