Show GOV HIGGINS COMMUTES LAWYER WICKES SENTENCE Albany N Y V July Jul It 11 became In I known here today that thaI Gov Go M several ral days ago aio commuted the Ih en tell terns of Thomas P 1 Wickes Wickes the tho New NewYork NewYork York lawyer who ho was sentenced to a t years rs Imprisonment upon of ot blackmail In the writing of at the no notorious it Jeng letters In those thOM letters letter he hI sought hl is M It WIll was alleged to 11 secure ure In legal business by II writing letters about himself signing them with the th name of ot e Jarvi Gov GO U Is out of ot town ton but hl h his secretary e ret ry Frank E Perley tonight nai sand l 1 that Wicket sentence had been turn com commuted muted lest t week so O as ss to effect his bin im int immediate mediate release from prison Th q h names named na mM of ot those who ho recommend 1 WI commutation are lire withheld but bur It Il In is aM said they Include men prominent In XII Nea York legal lelal circles including the district attorney Mr oIl Irle suit sari that friends had secured for I him a II promising IJU opening in m Alaska III ka and that the governors action was wall made conditional upon his going there |