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Show ' ' ' ' - - Foulke Engle Brandt, ex-Convict, Governor Who Pardoned Him and Senator Who Gets Job For Him, Photo cuiilr:lit, l'JIU, by American Press Association. In pardoning l'oull.e Uuglo Hi and t, tho Conner valet of Moi tinier L. SchllT, Mining u thirty ie.ir sentence for burglary bur-glary of the SclilIT home, Governor Sulzer made n historic piecedont for cilmlmil piumlilic In New York state. Tho governor made It plnln In extending clemency to tho young convict that tho net wns not one of nieicy, but ono of substantial sub-stantial Justice. Thirty ears, lie declared, wns nn excessive punishment for tl. ciline charged. Iliandt. who was only twenty jenrs old when scntenccdnnd hns served six jenrs of his term, made u full confession, ictinctlng statements state-ments made In a founer plen for pardon. Prominent In gaining the governor's Intervention w.is Mlrnbcuu L. Towns, Brandt's uttornc). Senator Kuute Nelson of Minnesota, who had never seen Hrnmlt liefoie the dny of ills release, had become intcicslcd In him and offered to get the young man n position with good people In Minnesota, where he might start life anew Brandt's release was conditional on his promise to shun nil notoriety nnd to lefinlu from i pinking any profit on the stage or otherwise from the publicity ho has had. The plume shows Ilraudt on tho extreme ex-treme left, Attorney Towns next nnd Seuntor Nelson on tho right. Reporters are In thu background. |