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Show OLDEST CONVICTS GRANTED PARDON Des Moines, la.. Aug. 24. Nathan and Frank Ralnsbarger, sentenced to life Imprisonment from Hardin county In the 80s for the murder of Enoch Johnson, were pardoned today by Governor Clarke. The pardon was conditional, providing that the Ralns-bargers Ralns-bargers shall remain peaceful and law-abiding citizens for a period of three years, after which the pardon Is to become absolute. Nathan and Frank Ralnsbarger, Iowa's oldest convicts, who were today to-day pardoned conditionally by Governor Gover-nor Clarke, were convicted in this county, although v they were Hardin county prisoners. Nathan Ralnsbarger, Ralnsbarg-er, who is now 62 years of age, was sentenced to life imprisonment at tho November term of the district court In 1885 and Frank, who Is now 59 years of age, was sentenced at the March term in 1886. Both men were convicted of the murder of Frank Rainsbarger's father-in-law, Enoch Johnson, of Grant township, town-ship, Hardin county. Johnson was found dead November !l3f 1884, alongside along-side a public highway, apparently the victim of a runaway accident. His skull "was fractured and his body mutilated. mu-tilated. These circumstances, with others, led to the belief on the part of Mrs. Frank Ralnsbarger that her (husband and his brother had committed com-mitted murder, and she was the chief witness for the state at their trials. The Ralnsbargera were convicted largely on circumstantial evidence. oo |