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Show GEORGIA GOVERNOR FREES STRIPLING Broken in Health, the One-Tiine Fugitive Fugi-tive Convict Is Released Prom Prison. ATLANTA. July 29. Thomas Edszar Stripling, who, under an assumed name, acted as chief of police of Danville, Va., while a fugitive from justice from' Georcia on a murder charge, was pardoned par-doned tonight by Goveruor Harris, after serving five years of a life sentence in the state prison. Broken in health, he will join his familv, which has lived near the prison fcrm at .Miilcdgeville since he was sent there. His case attracted at-tracted considerable attention about a year ?go, when his voung daughter appealed ap-pealed to the governor for pardon. Stripling shot Hill Cornell in Harris county, Georgia, nineteen vears ai'o claiming Cornell hail insulted his wife and sister. While awoitinK tnj1 escaped, was joined by m -p,.. after a number of years et to villo with his family. Thf e elected chief of police and w -,., sidered an excellent tf'fiaL"s C: under the name ot K. .,!.-the .,!.-the dav when the mvamy" ? was asked to re-elect him h' was discovered and be was taken to Georgia. |