Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-24 | Page 1 | President Pardons Federal Prisoners

PRESIDENT PARDONS FEDERAL PRISONERS Word Picture of Three Children Whose Mother Died While Father Was in Jail, Fromps Leniency. WASHINGTON, Dec 23. President Wilson today gave Christmas pardons to two federal prisoners and directed the department of justice to expedite their release to they raiyht spend Monday Mon-day with their families. In the ordinary ordi-nary course of procedure the cases would not have been acted upon for several weeks. A word picture of thre small children chil-dren whose mother died while the husband hus-band and father way in prison, moved t he preidcnt to order the reie;me f,( Hall Hs of nivandotie, VY. Va., touud guilty of f-'.icaein 'n Hie retail lirjuor business without paying a tax, and sen-trm-ed to three month-, in jail. Th' other prisoner ordered released wa Lillian fi. Mur'on of Georgia, eon-vieted eon-vieted at Kdfew;:'ei, X. of persuading persuad-ing a man to en;iie,ie moi;ev fmm a briTik. lie vn fcnteneed to two ve:irs in the penitent ia ry. but t he president aeted on the ground that it never had been proven she had a part in the cm-be cm-be element. t