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Show SAYS PRISONER IS WRONGFULLY HELD Case of Inmate of Colorado Penitentiary Peniten-tiary Will Be Presented to the Pardons Board. DENVER, Jan. 4 James E. Edwards Ed-wards has spent nearly eight years in prison in expiation of a crime he did not commit, according to the declaration declara-tion of prison officials here today, based on evidence submitted to tile state board of pardons at a special meeting. Should investigation supplement supple-ment this evidence as expected, Edwards Ed-wards will be released, they said. The evidence was given' by (x. AV. Shores, chief of the secret service of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. Edwards, with John H. Wilson, was convicted April i9, 1910, of the robbery rob-bery of the Citizens' -National bank of Glenwood Springs, Colo., the preceding September. He was identified by a bank employee. Wilson said Edwards was not involved in the robbery. The robbers held up two bank employees in daylight and escaped with $10,000. Mr. Shores testified, according to prison officials who have interested themselves in Edwards, that at the time of the robbery Edwards was in Salt Lake City, pawning some jewelry, and that the pawn broker's evidence and the pawn tickets were available as proof. Salt Lake police, he said, had satisfied themselves Edwards was in that city at that time. Chief of Police J. Parley White and Chief Joseph Sharp of the detective bureau stated last night when their attention was called to the foregoing dispatch from Denver, that thev did not recall the case of James E. Edwards. Ed-wards. Gcoruo Chase, who has charge of the Bertillon records of the local police department and who has been on the force for thirty years, also said he could not recall the case. |