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Show GOVERNOR HAS NT RECEIVED PROTESTS Move Made to Board of Pardons in Sensational Case Does Not Count. Uy Leased Wire to The Tribune. CHICAGO, Jan. 22. -Willi protests lo ihe board oil pui'do-us i'roiti scores of sufferers as a .result of tho wrcckinc j of tlio Alilwau'kcc avenue state bank, 1 against the release of Paul O. Slcnsland and Henry AV. Hering from the .foliet penitentiary. Governor Uencen, who arrived' ar-rived' in Chicago toda3" front Spring-Geld, Spring-Geld, emphatically declared that ho would in no way interfere with tlio release re-lease of the banker who lias nerved over thrco years fur his crime. "I H0.0 110 reason for my interference when not ono protest against their release has been made lo me," said the governor gover-nor at l.hn Union League club. "Why. 1. urn told that oveft thq, members of tho- Polish committee, admitted to the pardon board thai the men ought lo bo freed. The bnnk paid S7 cents on the dollar, and it would have paid out in full if tho assets had been sold for I heir value. There is really nothing to any of tho opposition for their release. " Stcnsland asked today that ho be taken from tho prfson secrolby al nighl to thwart any who' might wisli to do him bodily harm. The formor banker was in a slato bordering on nervous prostration and physical collapse as tho hours of his prison life dwindled. AU though it was positively announced bv tho attorneys, and officials that Stontr-land Stontr-land and Ilcring would not bo released before Monday, it w'as reported that quiet preparations have boon completed tor slipping the former bankers away from prison in tho dusk Sunday even-ing- |