Show MRS i FERGUSON ASSAILS CRITICS CRITIC Issues 27 More fore Pardons Raps Judge toy for Re- Re Releasing Releasing leasing Ee-leasing leasing Felon AUSTIN Texas J Jan n 13 13 By The Associated Press Press Branding her critics A a crowd of or howlers howler and nd challenging them to prove provi any ny of her clemency acts were wr unjustified Governor Miriam A AI has Increased her par par- pardon pardon pardon don and nd parole total tot l to the new nev newstate stale state record of o While while crim crim- criminal criminal inal courts In two counties today had postponed criminal docket until the tho expiration of her term January 18 It next Judge Whit hit Boyd of Harris county Houston yesterday con con- conformed conformed con conformed formed to the action of Bexar county jurists Jurist in- in In discontinuing sentencing of all pen pend- pend pending ing Ins the woman governors governor's retire retire- retirement retirement retirement ment Judges of both districts acted on the request of district attorneys who declared men re re c convicted had been liberated 27 7 i J With Ith counsel of friends of con con con- Ids ta besieging her office with pet petitions for clemenc clemency Governor Fer Ferguson defied her critics and andIn andin In turn made accusations accusation of Irre Irregularities In court procedure Sh She then continued signing clemency orders the days day's summary showing 27 full pardons and one condition condition- conditional al pardon This was slightly less than the th average veras maintained for several everal days das Replying to District Attorney C CM CM M f Chambers of Bexar county San Antonio Antonto who charged her pardon policy made life lite and property unsafe Governor For guson Fer- Fer Ferguson Ferguson guson declared she had the endorsement en endorsement en- en of county officials andIn and andIn andIn In most cases case all the tha jurors before granting paroles or pardons ASSAILS ASS JUDGE She then Invited Chambers and Judge McCroy of Bexar county to explain her allegation that Dan Morgan Morsan an escaped convict from Indiana had been released on bond following his arrest at San Antonio and had not been heard of since The bond has his never been paid she he charged I again asin hurl burl at this crowd of howlers a request to tell the people what pardons I have Ilave Issued that have not been founded upon jus- jus justice justice jus justice tice and good reasons she said raid Records of tho the secretary of state show that although the cov SOy SOy- governor has exceeded the record for for- formerly for formerly merly held by her husband James JamesL JamesH L 1 Ferguson prior to his Impeach impeach- impeachment Impeachment ment In 1917 ho he Issued more full pardons than hi his wife has sons son's ion sona total stood at 2440 2940 of which 1 were unconditional releases while his wife had approved but full pardons Upward of 1000 clemency papers have been approved lr by by Mrs Ferguson She was defeated by Attorney General Dan Moody In a oft arun-oft run off primary August last Re- Re Recent Re Recent cent surveys show that approximately approximately approximately persons are arc now con cor- confined tined con fined In state penal Institutions as 3 compared to when Governor Ferguson was inaugurated two years ago Meanwhile friends ot of the Fer- Fer Fergusons Fergusons were ere rallying to attack a abill abill bill Introduced when the state leg leg- ler 1 lature convened T I Tuesday day for tor the repeal of the measure passed in 1924 granting amnesty to Ferguson Ferguson Kon son following his Impeachment |