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Show CLEMENCY 15 ASKED 1 ;Nv V: I This is Edna Bond, the little mountain moun-tain girl of West Virginia, in whose behalf President Coolidge will be appealed ap-pealed to. The President Is the only person who can open the gates and allow Edna to walk out into the sunlight sun-light of freedom. She Is now In the Stark county workhouse because a whisky still wirs found a half mile from her mountain cabin. She Is serving the longest sentence ever known In the history of the world for bootlegging seven years and a fine of $6,000 which If she were forced to work It out at the rate of 60 cents a day would keep her In prison for So years. |