Show AGED G E 0 PRISONER I ACCEPTS OFFER OF FREEDOM Ive Paid the Price He Says Refused Liberty Lib Lib- erty Before By Jack Carberry N. N E E. E A A. A Staff Corr Correspondent AUSTIN Tex Aug 21 l. I I havo paid the price you price you can pardon mo mc now Three minutes after I that brief brici message reached Governor W. W P. P Hobby's desk a a. pardon releasing Uncle Billy Edwards 70 jO from iho state penitentiary had ben signed Ten years ago abO Uncle Billy killed a man Ho demanded he ho bo be sentenced to tc I prison for tor life lICe After the verdict L was passed the tho Judge Jude the Jury and I relatives o of the tho victim and state of of- of ficor's sought his pardon Not until I have paid aid for Cor my sin was Uncle Undo Billys answer Refused Six P Pardons In vain did Governor Colquitt write three pardons for tor the tho aged prisoner Not yet he would say when I told that ho was free Cree Governor Hobby's second official I act was to pardon Ed Edwards wards Again It was waa refused Twice more durIng Hobby's term of or office did dk I the old man reject offers o of liberty Ill write you OU when 1 have paid i the price ho he said So finally UnCle Undo DIU Billy wrote But when word flashed Clashed back that he ho was free fr-cc he ho shook his head His Hit Birthday Present I didn't expect the governor go to act so 60 quickly he ho said l 1 want tho the pardon for or my birthday Aug birthdaY Aug 22 To comply with the aged mans man's wish Hobby changed ed tho the pardon date accordingly And so so on his S first venty birthday birthday birth birth- day Uncle Bill Billy will walk through the prison gates to freedom and wealth For while confined In the tho penitentiary penitentiary three great pools of oil have been discovered on his acre 30 farm fanD In lii Callahan Callhan county Royalties already deposited to his account in banks total The Tho land Itself Itsell Is worth a 1 fortune When Im I'm free freo Im I'm going to use er e every cent of that money regenerating regenerating regener regener- men the aged aced prisoner oner told the governor during a recent visit to t the he prison on I The first thing I do will be to I e employ the best beat lawyers In Texas t to o free freo my two Two a aged ged convicts both of whom nave have s spent pent fourteen n years In prison They have paid and they want w wanto t to o get et out Ill I'll spend the who dad b blamed lamed fortune fortune- to see eee they get set what they want he said eald A A Pl Place to Start Anew If theres there's anything left over a and nd there will be for lor the tho board boud of ot pardons I Is known to b be planning fa favorable favorable fa fa- v action on the tho two old convicts convicts' convicts convicts' con con- I v petitions rm petitions Tm going to build a farm m where men who have a and have paid can start life lIfo anew I Edwards says Ive leam sl life inside thes these stone I walls alls Ive I've learned to love loe my tellow fel tel l low ow man There Thero are good men In itt prison who need a helping hand I I J Just so long Ions as aa Uncle Billys Billy's coin h holds olds out they're going to get ItI ILI it IL itI I wouldn't trade my ten years h hero here cr for lor th th other 60 of or m my life Im I'm a a. member of the Brotherhood of ol olMan Man n M an no nod nod-I I wasn't before T The he Welcome That's Waiting Undo Uncle B Billys nYa friends In itt Callahan Callahan Calla Calla- bh b han an county ire are planning a welcome h home ome bt for or tho the ng aged d man Ull be the tho biggest celebration t this his neck o o 0 the tho woods has haa eert ever eer seen een s says Fred 01 who has t bc b been een n m made mado X Chairman ol of f the eo Reception Re Re- c eption Committee |