Show PARDONED BY THE PRESIDENT Joseph H Evans Receives Executive Exec-utive Clemency The News received the following special from Washington yesterday It needs no comments from us asit fully explains itself i WASHINGTON March 5 Tbe President yesterday pardoned Joseph H Evans The following are endowments on the papers DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE January 25 lSS7 To the Picsident As this man has served out nuich over half of his term and as he is getting old and ought to be pardoned I recommend it 1 dont attach under tbe circumstances much importance to his declining to make the promise asked of him Respectfully A H GARLAND GrantedThis convict Is nearly 70 years old and waa convicted of polygamy un lawful cohabitation He has been imprisoned impris-oned more than two years His pardon is prayed for by his legal wife Though he will not promise to obey the law against polygamy yet I am determined that the hardship of his case shall not be cited to showthat the government Is inclined to be vindictive In its attempts to extirpate the practice of polygamy Signed GKOYER CLEVELAND March 4th 1887 |