Show E A Iillin fon Pardoned Yesterday Governor Thomas Issued Is-sued a jiardou to E A Billlngton who was sentenced on March 3 SS9 on a conviction of a ault with utcnttorob The transaction with which I was accused of being connected was the Xephl Bank rob > cry by JusttMm and Allrcd Xov J7 1SS7 At that time Mr Billing tn was In Spring City Saupcte County The perpetrators 6f the crime Mated that Billlngton had ilanned the robbery and gave ev denc which convicted him Subsequent Subse-quent developments have produced estlmony I and OHO of tlie robbers las also admitted tbe fact that the evidence was untrue and that Ellington il II mlIII III ington had nothing eia do with tlie crime The mayor and leading citizens of Spring City and a num Inl ber of residents of tills city who were acquainted with the facts as well as one of the jurors w ho stated hat Ie was induced t find a vcr Hct of guilty contrary to hb conviction con-viction united In vilon uul petitioning Governor Gov-ernor Thomas who iardoii recites he following as the rOW for executive clemency From the evidence submitted tome to-me with rpt to his arrest trial and nl conviction and the uatetnentn of r ponsiblo panics familiar with the circumstance of iba case now on file 10 tbo Secretarya omuo there is much reason to bcliete that he nas unjust convicted and t being unjustly punished bb Mr Billlngton was married D 231SS7 and hortly afterward he vnt arrested He was sentenced to hree years in the penitentiary and ou r teen days after his incarceration on Aprl13bL wife die |