Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-12-15 | Page 21 | Woman Who Wed Fugitive Hopes to Win His Pardon

Woman Who Wed Fugitive I Hopes to Win His Pardon Br By Associated Pr u COLUMBIA S. S C C. Dec De A 15 A 15 A worn worn- an who married an escaped South Carolina conVIct in California looked hopefully today to an appointment with Governor Blackwood tomorrow when she will ask for hJ his freedom The wife visited her husband C. C D. D Copper a life at the tite penitentiary penitentiary yesterday Then she went to the governors governor's office for a short Interview Interview interview Inter inter- view and arranged for a second m meeting meet meet- tIng t- t ing trig tomorrow Of course Im I'm hoping my husband will get a pardon she commented The governor recently d denied a clemency petition presented by Van VanI VanLee VanLee Lee Hood Los Angeles attorney I The slender Los Angeles woman married the year old fugitive I the name of Ben M M. Jones without I knowledge of his previous life Cooper who has hIlS asserted his innocence inno- inno cence was convicted at S. S C. C In 1921 for the murder of ot Nick Dullea a Birmingham Ala taxi driver He escaped in 1930