Show 1 J Darrow to Aid in Effort to tor toI r r f r Tf I Free Pint Pint Gui Of Gin Lifer Liter 1 r w. w h ii s u r 4 v l lK N Y I K i g 4 Y I y Fred red Palm Michigan's pint pint gin gin of-gin lifer and his wife shown in inset Michigan Court to Hear New Plea of Man Sent Up as Habitual Criminal JACKSON Mich NEA On June 2 the robed black-robed justices of the he supreme court of Michigan will consider the case of Fred Palm who Is serving a life sentence inthe in inthe the he penitentiary here because police poUce po- po lice ice found a pint of gin in his home On that date Palms Palm's case will Win come ome up for final review Present to o plead for him will be Clarence Darrow famous criminal lawyer Louis Culliver New York assemblyman assembly assembly- man and other attorneys As the time for the tho hearing approaches approaches ap- ap roaches Palms Palm's friends have havo been busy marshaling facts to support their heir plea for his release They outline their case something like this his HAS CRIMINAL RECORD Palm drew a life sentence under Michigan's habitual criminal law which makes a life term mandatory mandator y on the fourth conviction of a felony In 1914 he served a term in prison n for breaking and entering in 1920 0 he was sentenced to the federal prison at Leavenworth for passing passin g counterfeit money and in 1925 h he ge ge e was sentenced to six months to on one e year In prison here for violating violating- th the e liquor law The subsequent finding of ot the gin in his home made the list of four offenses complete Yet on the record books of th the e state prison there are names of men sent to prison since Palm Palm was wa s sentenced who had been convicted of four felonies but did no not receive e life The judge that sentenced Pal Palm said said that he had no option but t to o Impose a life term tet-m yet these others others oth oth- ers some of them in ip for burglary burglar others others for larceny were let off with h sentences ranging from fifteen months to seven years In addition Palm insists that h he e pleaded guilty to the charge of possessing possessing possessing pos pos- liquor without being warn warned that it would make him liable to a s life me term He also asserts that the police who searched his house did so without a search warrant His Ills attorneys have prepared an attack on en the constitutionality of the habitual criminal law and are ready eady to assert that the law classing class class- ing prohibition offenses as felonies fe Is null nuU and void Th That t is the outline of the fight Palms Palm's attorneys will make His friends are arc particularly stressing the cases of other fourth offenders who did not get life sentences OTHERS ESCAPE PENAL PENALTY TV The records at the prison for in instance instance in in- stance tell teU of one man who is serving ing a term of eighteen months to five years for grand larceny Ho Ito had previously served thirty days in a house of correction five years In the tho Minnesota prison and two terms in the federal prison at Leavenworth Leavenworth Leavenworth Leav- Leav where he was sent for peddling drugs Another man is serving a p L term of seven and one half to fifteen years for burglary He served one year three-year term in the Nebraska prison and two year five-year terms In the Missouri 1 prison all for burglary bur bur- glary Still another is doing one to five I years ears for larceny His record shows one previous imprisonment in Michigan Mich Mich- igan and two to in Texas t Palm S says In the that Q when he was arraigned arraigned ar- ar Lansing the gin Mn charge T he pleaded courts guilty on a and was sentenced to six months to 10 two iwo years In In prison Th Then n as i he st started to walk ho he hoVas was Vas called back away ho he says ays by the judge and informed that hat because It ft to his t fourth offense lse he would have was servo serve a af life lite term That he was hf his nis first intimation says faced such that he a severe penalty WIFE AIDS PRISONER and Palm is a barber by tr trade de l is 36 married He has tew b been n in prisS prison pris- pris on a a. little mUe o over er S his confinement m mouths during durIng his wife has been obliged to sell seU their home to get money to live Jive on Ills His lawyers ers do not gloss attempt to over his their pleas unsavory record In for his release Palm himself however Insists that he was Innocent of both the and breaking entering and the In charges counterfeit counterfeit- Palms Palm's previous record record- In ln is shown own on detail lows police PoUce reco records 8 as follows fol- fol 1914 as No state Michigan penitentiary one to fifteen years ears for burglary the tho night and entering In 1920 five f years at L Leavenworth prison Kansas fOr passing counterfeit counterfeit counter counter- feit money 26 1925 as No state o Michigan penitentiary ry six months to forry one year ear for vIolating Sixty Sl av liquor law aa days in Dt olt house of of correction Detroit No date nor jor crime given or He was sentenced last time on September 23 21 1927 |