| Show THE WILLIAMS PARDON CASE nearly three weeks ago the NEWS published a communication over the signature of willis knapp in which the effait to secure a pardon for thomas williams now in ID the penitentiary tent iary lary for killing J E Hutch hutchings inas at twelve years ago wait waa sharply antagonized some caustic remarks by mr knapp regarding williams and his bia parents have elicited a dental denial from W H halladay of tropic gar field county who served a term in the penitentiary during Wll Willi llamas amela incarceration mr halladay contradicts the asee ae Bertlon artion that Williams a 4 parents have offered large amounts of money to obtain his hie freedom and says they are not financially situated to make such a tender there were several statements I 1 lu v mr knaper letter about williams s conduct in obits penitentiary one of which was that thai be tried to poison the guards there tubre made numerous attempts to escape and bad to be placed lu irons for bad con conduct duft mr halladay Halla duy who was waa in prison at the time contradicts this and says that williams was one of the leading spirits that unearthed the poison scheme finding the drug beneath fred hopta seat child hopt wan wait taken care of and deprived ot of the opportunity port unity of accomplishing his bis v wholesale hole polso scheme to get those witnesses out of the way to whom he be had coni epand the murder of john turner jr 21 2 1 mr halladay states that the I 1 ron iron inic of williams william is shown show 0 on the prison record to be due to the false testimony of a follow fellow prisoner and refers to gao N dow ex garden and to E A franks L cottrell Cottre JJ and E janney guards in support of the statement he also names dames chief of police pratt and a number of others who have been or are peo pet iten ilten biary officers to prove that the offenses lenses of charged char geil by mr knapp against williams williama actually were committed by the murderer hopt we published mr knapple letter on the subject ye we have given here the substance of mr Hall bation which deals at some ome length with the accusations in the first fint letter and contradicts every one ode of them that affects williame s conduct in prison here we let the matter root reat so eo far as aa the AN NEWS aws la IS concerned as a for the present at least we have no BO inclination to take one side aide or the other in the controversy those who are directly interested should present their view of the issues involved to the governor who holds bolde the pardoning power and Is ia capable of disposing dispo eing of the cose case with out unnecessary public discussion we have full confidence that he be will do so 0 o with fairness and consideration t all concerned after a thorough in therefore to that source we reter refer the contending interests inte reato |
