Show S INNOCENT MAN PARDONED Man Convicted on Evidence of His Daughter Given Liberty I r Denver Colo lcb OOn the groundS I ground-S that he wns absolutely Innocent of the S Crime for which li wa entenr < Hl to serve seven years Roger Wllkn last night ro celvpd uncortdllloniil pardon from tho Stat < Bo4ird of Pardon S 5 I IS Willis wa convicted of robbery In El Palo count In 1WT W S Boynton A the Fhcrtrf Wllks Mild that he hAt In curd the mmlty of the Boynlon political pUIc1 inctlon whlli put him out of the wnv by S chftrjirlnir him with a crime with which he OM not hiv Hit rMnoirtl connnwtlon He S errvru thrry years In the penitentiary l wo farnlod hy i CJov Thomas turntl to Crlp pie Crrok tn hive and was abl last nljcht f > prornt to the board evidence which 2 convince the n1rntsrs that hf had never In any manner been connected with the crlnm br which he wo punished with S yearn of Imprisonment and rtlincrac llh trrtr streaming from her 8M S Laum In irhy told the boani that her father bot to the penitentiary fQ from ten to nrt i > n years on her evidence was S absolutely innocent The girl wild that two voRrs ago she foil under the Influence n Mrs Florftnco Smith of Colorado Sprlnim Her father mistrusting Mrs Smith forbMln his daughter to visit hor Mr Smith told Laura that If her father did anything to her she could moke trou bki 1 for him Subsequently sho sold while at Mrs Smiths house and Intoxicated she was ruined and r Smith received a f < e Doarby had an inkling of tho rat and beat his daughter On Mrs Smlths bft hi paid she then accused her father of the crime In order to get even Mrs cr3 1 h1e herself I was one of the witnesses wit-nesses at the trial and testified to suspicions suspi-cions circumstances but nothing directly Implicating Dcarbv leaving the caso Implcating wholly upon the evfdenco of tho daughter |