OCR Text |
Show REFUSES A PAROLE. Indian Woman Wants r.inne ration From Judge mill Jurr. Indianapolis, Ind., March 84. Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, who Is serving a ten-years' ten-years' sentence in tho Indiana woman's prison, has been paroled by Governor Mount nnd declines to accept her freedom. free-dom. She Is In the prison for the alleged al-leged murder of Oscar Walton, a Cass county farmer, In 1894, and says Bhe will not leavo tho Institution until the judge and jury which tried her acknowledge acknowl-edge to Governor Mount that sho Is innocent and that they wero in error when thoy passed judgment on her. Tho state oflicers say that it is one of tho very few Instances in tho criminal history of tho state where liberty has been offered and refused. |