Show garfield aunt y news vve a A comprehensive chronicle of important special review of happenings happening designed declined for tha tb busy worker who does not earn care to read many pages page for state and world events it few facts 0 doc r drama of gold t rush revealed reveal d presidents pardon of villao bares bakes story of strange life kansas city mo when I 1 president r es ident coolidge granted absolute freedom to tho the other day lie he ended a drama of tile gold rush which reads almost like ilc letlon lct lon tion behind bars 21 years anti and in the shadow of tile gallows spectacular battle for foi liberty was ended by the pardon lie he has dot been bitter over the misfortune fate has heaped upon film and now at forty years of if age owner of two barber shops in rochester lie he sees a happy future some bonio lay day he will visit hla his fatherland montenegro where his father was a nobleman lle Is was released from the federal prison november 0 3 1020 by judge john 0 of the kansas cansas federal court on a writ of habeas corpus ills ilia plea was unusual lie he asked freedom or death if tits his plea pica had been allowed ho would have been taken back to alaska and hanged according to a court decree there IHs 1118 argument was based on his declared innocence of a murder tor for which he ans convicted the murder was in 1001 1141 1 at that hat time he be could not english it was hla contention that death would bo be preferable to no an innocent man than a cruel irn ful judge pollock held with him ruling the president of the united santes in id 1009 william howard taft had no tight right to commute the death sentence imposed on by the alaskan court cour t without tile tho consent of tile the accused cuse d in hla his decision however judge pollock declared justice would woul d not be by to the gal lows iowa after he had served twenty one years in n jail and prison that point was not decided president tuft taft was waa asked to commute sentence after ch had been in jail four years no ho did ahlo by executive order was token taken to the federal prison at leavenworth him ann to pass tho the rest of ills his life thero ther 0 tile tho young nobleman studied american laws lawa and customs master fog both language and law lie came cama across tho the legal point which proved to bo the isamo for or tits his recent release iio applied to the court and george 3 corge mcdermott a kansas lawyer was ap pointed to represent him then came callie tho the presentation ot of facts in the case strangely time lind and shifted charn characters eters in this drama so that former president taft was now chief justice of tile the united states and was wag called upon to pass upon the legality of hla big own executive order that saved Pe roylet from tile gallows last may tile the court hold held against judge pollock and me bac dormott dermott and Il erovich shaped their application for it pardon from president coolidge early jlia life was wa one of ease few oath of the e ro romantic mantle novels ever written about imaginary principalities in europe are dotted with stranger and more unusual circumstances than have entered into hs life ills ilia father was chief justice in montenegro and a friend of icing nicholas ills hla mother was of th the eroyal royal family As a child played with tho the royal children and no expense was wag spared in ills hla education at fifteen he could speak eight slavic dialects and spanish trench and italian A few years later russia antl turkey became involved in ono one of the balkan wars and he enlisted in the russian army tho youngest officer in the army he was for bravery and com coin a lieutenant when war was OV over er lie desired to join a brother who had come to america Ile bof of gud gold in alaska also attracted film hani and final ly IY lie permission to come in III alaska lie he met fin an american prospector named sam could linly speak e a tow few words of english they found a claim from which tile they y took worth osgold of gold then went to fairbanks alaska to buy machinery so they could take out gold in greater quantities I 1 one day while vel was standing in abe door of a saloon in fairbanks its his partner came staggering tp tf ill him wounded and bleeding our claim lins ims been Jull jumped Ped sam barn in muttered uttered but said recently he hurried back to their cabin ind and found three men there ile he asked tor for fits cloth clothes 08 find and other belongings answering tho the men inen drew knives and L started to attack him im iio was waa six feet tall weighed pounds dounda and was boughe toughened ned by months of hard labor seizing a huge board he fought them oft off and finally obtained his clothes A few days later lie ha was arrested on a charge of assault he was given to understand an assault charge meant little in alaska accused of a murder while lie he was in jail pending tile the ou outcome ocomo of the assault charge he de dares clares the three men accused him of the murder of an old prospector at a wood choppers camp to which pero vich alch ind had moved after the fight these witnesses he ho declared produced clothing sald to have belonged to the ol 01 old inan roan and accused of having threatened to kill tile the old prospector tho the cabin in which the prospector lived was burned and the accusers charged Pero vieb had murdered him film and had burned tile the cabin to conceal the crime before knew what it was n all about he was charged with murder the mei member libers of the jury were quick to believe bellev etho tho accusers it was c charged barged in the prosecution that pero aichs lack of knowledge of english was only a pretense and that accusation prejudiced the tha jury against him xio ile was waa convicted then the question arosa in the minds of those who reviewed the case that the tha te testimony stimon y of the three men might have bee been n prejudiced after president taft commuted his sentence became one of tile the lost legion ln in the arann gold rush he hoard heard of tits his brother who had made a fortune in alaska alaba a and wils was returning to Alonte montenegro negro to ho 60 married refused ills fits brothers offer to forego tits his marriage and spend his fortune to obtain freedom ills brother went to europe and never returned r abandoning th 0 case as hopeless after receiving the decisions decision 8 of the courts court released Ile leased on the habeas corpus plea per went to It rochester ochester an and a bought a barber shop with a small initial payment before long lie he had paid for it and purchased another now lie he has tile the latter shop cleared and owns a motor car besides tits his brother who amassed wealth in alaska ii lind had three other brothers brot liers they were killed in the world war their widows with eight children are living in minnesota virtually all the money earned from special work while he acted as prison interpreter was sent to the widows to support the children ula ills lawyer estimated that lie he had sent them almost 2000 |