Salt Lake Herald | 1890-10-21 | Page 6 | Life Sentences

Lifo Sentences Fifteen years is about the average lifetime life-time sentence says a prison physician 1 Very few convicts though sentenced for life servo more than that period They either die or are pardoned In the Missouri Mis-souri prison there are five holiday pardons l > every year granted by the governor One white and one negro convict are pardoned on the Fourth of July and two white and one negro convicts are pardoned on Christmas Christ-mas The long termers get the bepeiit of I this clemency This I heartily indorse I If fifteen years does not reform a man filsy years imprisonment will notSt j Louis GlobeDemocrat I