Show THE PARDON OF the pardon of 0 henry Hai Ila omond ramond Is a 1 I 1 great brent shame the president has bus been imposed upon by some soma one the facts as fully brought out on the trial are substantially as aa follows yount Ilant hammond mond was a young hoodlum tito the mother of 0 clyde forbade him to play with hammond Ha inmond when hammond heard beard this lie he told clyde that he would kill him before night in the evenin evenings even ingo that day X little girt raw take lake deliberate aim at al clyde and fire ire and taw saw clyde clado tall fall she ran away and a lady living pear near seeing her running ran out and stopped her and naked why she was running sho she replied that henry hammond had bad shot eliot clyde no robinson binson when arraigned hammond said bald he had been tryl trying ng a cartridge which would not explode but that it did explode on an main street and he supposed killed kille 3 little clyde where he said he stood waa rig MD MB feet from ft here little clyde wis was killed and the murdered boy received a full charge of bird shot in hla his breast making a hole two and a halt half inches la in diameter from where ilam mond said the pun gun was accidentally discharged jl it would have been physically impossible to have hit clyde bob inon unless he be shot around a corner ile he said he shot a cartridge youns young clyde was waa killed by bird shot tho the little girl stated where lie he stood when he be shot IN here little clyde was it if any ot of the shot passed the victim they would have lodged in a log loc house houe beyond it if the little girl was not mi mil taken the shot were found in the log loe house the judge vilio mho tried the case the prosecuting attorney and the jury had not a doubt of the intention and guilt of the little monster the only reason the verdict waa in the second degree was the extreme youth of the little fiend the pardon la Is a mighty misfortune the boys mother Is dead hla his father la Is a no good lie has no one to support and look after him it w mould have been vastly better could he have remained where he be would receive discipline and an education he can obtain neither here it la Is an out outrage rage upon this community to turn him loose here again he has nearer the attributes of another jesso jesse pomeroy than alian any other criminal of whom we have a record why the department of justice recommended his pardon without sending here tor fop the facts and abig tb opinions of those oho he tried him and watched him on the trial ll Is incomprehensible hen sible ile he Is a boy but he Is a little fiend all the same |