Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-21 | Page 14 | Fugitive May Gain Freedom

fUGITIVE MAY GAIN fREEDOM Christmas Pardon Due i John Keller at D Denver nver DENVER DEN Dec 21 John 11 John Keller KentI whose wife at his hla pollee police court trial hial last Tuesday on charges of disturbance disturbance dis dis- Informed informed police pollee that he escaped from the state penitentiary at Joliet Jollet Ill in 1914 may receive freedom from Illinois officials for or ChrIstmas Keller was fined 10 in police pollee court and Is being held pending word from the Illinois prison The way was nas paved pa for a pardon pardon par par- don today her Warden Varden John L L. Whitman of Joliet Jollet telegraphed Chief of Police Williams here her here asking If there would be any objection If the Illinois authorities took no action n against Keller I I In n reply Chief Williams Informed the prison a authorities ties that Keller had been m his home In Dener Denver Denver Den Den- ver er and that there would be no ob object objection objection ob- ob ion to Kellers Keller's release Keller escaped from Joliet Jollet prison b by means of an Improvised gas pipe ladder in 1914 after having bavins served ser two twenty-two months of or a year five I I sentence for receiving stolen prop prop- erh Since that time he has 1 mar mar- red ried