Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-16 | Page 2 | Kentucky Governor Pardons Guard Chief

Kentucky Governor Govenor Pardons Guard Chief J FRANKFORT Ky Nov 16 UP Pt P- P t p With a pardon Governor Ruby Laffoon Laffoon foon toon today saved Adjutant General t H. H T H. H Denhardt from trial on two indictments that followed the national national national na- na guard occupation of Harlan county during the August primary p The indictments charged the adS adjutant adjutant ad- ad S general with criminal conS contempt contempt con- con S tempt for tor disobeying a temporary p order of ot Harlan circuit court fora forbidding forbidding for- for a bidding troops to act as peace officers officers of- of in the county and with using T force torce unlawfully to obtain possesS possession possession posses- posses S sion Mon of the ballot boxes of Clover Clover- I to splint precinct In Harlan county 4 a during the primary I The pardons pardo ordered General Denhardt Denhardt Denhardt Den- Den hardt forever acquitted released and discharged of any other Indictments Indictments In- In or warrants that might 4 result from froin any action taken by byI I him while acting under the orders I of the governor