Show STENSLAND WANTS PARDON After Ater serving sering less than a year of ot his Indeterminate sentence for tor looting the Milwaukee Avenue state bank of ot Chi Chicago Chicago cago Paul PaulO O 0 Stensland has applied to the state mate board of ot pardons for tor re release release release lease He promises to be good here hereafter hereafter after and he promises to work hard and pay oft off ot all al his obligations Ac Accompanying Accompanying Accompanying companying the application is a certificate cate from two women physicians who are living with wih Stensland daughter to the effect that he is suffering from eleven diseases and that he cannot canot stand tand the confinement of at prison life I maladies according to In Inthe the doctors are Fatty degeneration d of ot the heart chronic bronchUs bronchitis asthma asthma asthma ma anaemia anaemIa emphysema deficient elimination general generl breakdown insomnia InsomnIa Insomnia nia mental anguish angish threatened tuber tuberculosis tuberculosis tuberculosis and a serious affection of ot tho the eyes We cannot understand iw w a aman aman aman man who is suffering with wih all aU of or those thoe formidable ailments could possibly work hard and ami an pay par of eff c the thousands upon thousands of at dollars he stole from the thc th depositors in his bank This man as a matter mater of fact is not entitled to either sympathy or ur leniency Alter After Ater years spent in fast tast living at the expense of the banks depositors he got together all al the mont mon morny y he could find and fled fed to Morocco lorocco There ho was apprehended through the efforts of ofa ofa ofa a Chicago newspaper anti and brought back to be tried for his crime He would never have come back voluntarily His purpose was to remain away away from Chi Chicago Chicago cago the remainder of ot his life He was tried tred convicted and sen seii sentenced fen to serve ser an Indeterminate pe period nod rod He should be kept in the peni penitentiary for a long term of ot years yer be because because cause cuse If I ever a man richly deserved a heavy sentence that man is Stensland Many a man has served for many mimy y years for far less crimes than his Upon pon head rests the responsibility ity Its for at least a suicides for dozens of ruined homes home for the fact that hundreds of people who ho thought they had provided against old age agA are now facing bitter biter poverty And he has the nerve nere to ask for or a pardon on the ground gound If I released relea ed edhe he will wi endeavor to pay lay back the money he le stole and In the tm very next breath to to claim caim that he h is suffering from eleven serious ailments aim nt Any thief In any prison in the land whether in I or not not would be glad to exchange a promise of this sort for freedom And any of them would be at least lest as apt to make good as Stensland |