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Show TAFT PARDONS DANIEL JOKES WASHINGTON, May 11 Pres.dent Taft, in granting executhe clemency today to Daniel T Jones, serving a llfo sentence for murder in Leavenworth Leaven-worth penitentiary, brought to light a sordid story of a pioneer's life I along the Indian Territory frontier In the '70s Jones, after serving a two-year sentence In a Texas Jail, returned re-turned to tho then Inladn Terrltory to find his home wrecked by his cousin, William. There were reconciliations, recon-ciliations, however, and the family moved to the wilderness along the Red rlvor Ont night early in 1S79 William Jones was shot and killed in the cabin the family occupied. A woman, passing the night there, les-titled les-titled Williams' wound was not powdered, pow-dered, as it would have been If he had committed suicide, and upon that evidence Daniel Jones was sentenced commuted to life imprisonment in ! 1SS-I, and President Roosevelt In 1908 refused to pardon him. When the case came to President Taft the undertaker un-dertaker who buried William Jones appeared and made affidavit that Williams' Wil-liams' wound was badly powder burned. burn-ed. Tho attorney general recommended recom-mended clemency. The president decided de-cided there was grave doubt of Daniel Dan-iel Jones' guilt and has freed him. Jones has served twenty-seven years behind prison walls,, the equivalent of a forty-year sentence. rtrt |