Show TAfT fOR fORA A PARDON Effort to Be Made to Get John R IL Walsh Out of or Federal Prison AGED BANKER IS FAILING FALLING IN 1 HEALTH i Wife and Sons of Former Chicago Banker File Petition With President I I WASHINGTON W ASHI Sept S pt 24 4 Y peti petition JI I thin lion to lo tho tIme president pr of the United States for the time pardon of John R n Walsh the former provident president of the I II Chicago National hank bink from the time fed federal federal eral prison at Leaven worth Kas was filed flied at it the department of justice to 10 tiny dav bv h by Attorney George T Ducking Bucking ham baum of o Chicago on Jennie of or Mary Marj 1 I Continued on Paga Throe 1 I Ir r PETITION TAFT FOR PARDON Continued from rom Page One Walsh W Walsh and amid John JohnW JohnW W Walsh respectively the wife and sons of the prisoner Accompanying tho the formal petition for a pardon were wore thousands of loiters letters of o Individuals In Chicago anti and throughout the west welt urging President raft Taft to io grant grantt the t th hl petition The Tho file of these letters comprise e bound hound volumes Besides the time letters let len from personal friends and business associates there thole wore letters from all time the officers and directors of o time the Walsh banks hanles which wore Involved In the tIme case letters from Crom the tho hanks banks stockholders stockholder and de depositors depositors and amid jurors who found guilty of misappropriating funds of or his banks bunks Violated Banking Lawa LavI Lawain Tn in 1017 I 1 Mr II r Walsh was found guilty of or a violation of tho time United States State banking laws in iii JI having mantle made e excessive ceH sive loans to railroads In which ho imo hons was ns Interested In and In 1009 1909 1 lOti ho Ito was sentenced to five years ears In iu Leaven Leavenworth Leavenworth worth prison Walsh Is 11 73 3 yeArs old and antl the main motive In the tIme appeal to the time president Is based on the thu prisoners falling health He lie Is reported suffering from rom acute cute heart disease and physicians affirm in fn the time petition that ho he Is likely like to dlo die pt rt any nn moment As set act et forth in tho the petition the grounds on which his pardon Is 18 asked aske are arc as IS follows That the crime for 01 which ho he was wait W I found guilty does not Involve moral turpitude and that none of oC tho time views lows lowson on which conviction was based cl were done none for or resulted In Lu any profit to himself Depositors D Paid in Full That ThaI the depositors in the banks with sith which he was connected were paid imald In full lull and Immediately Immo That tho the loss of nearly all nil his own large e personal fortune caused by bj the th forced liquidation of these banking Institutions Is equal to a fi financial financial fine tine many times In excess of any nn usually Imposed and Is In lit Itself a n most severe sotere punishment nt already suffered That his loss of power prestige and position together with tho humiliation of or conviction and mont ment is 15 a punishment already suf suffered greatly In imm excess of or the usual That the racking strain of oC tIme the four our years ears struggle to save his personal as well vell as to save sac loss to par partle partle tle l Interested In has hRs with his advanced age a e so seriously affected his health that a continued d Imprisonment Is likely to result fatally |