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Show INNOCENT MAN FREED AFTER 10 YEARS IN JAIL Convict Says He Confessed Killing Child to Avoid Being Mobbed I MADI80N Wis.. Feb. IT John A. i T . . . . . v l jonn'on waa i.-.i.isru nun. iu .im.v; ' prison today after serving 10 yeirsj and six months of a life sentence for I the murder In 1911 of seven-year-old j Anno Lomberger, a crime which Oo.- rrnor J. J Blalno is convinced John-I John-I son did not commit. Six months' Investigation Into the i I probable circumstance, surrounding 1 I the crime to which Johnson pleaded I guilty and for which Martin Lem-I Lem-I berfer, father of the glr). was for-i for-i mall. charged with manslaughter on January 6, 1922, brought Governor 1 Blaine to conclude that "there Is only one fact that stands out clearly, and j that Ik that Johnson did not murder ; Annie Lomberger." Ml ICIK.K IS MYSTERY. h.. difl kill the young girl and later attempt to hldo hor body in Lake Monona will probably never be! definitely established. It is said The father availed himself of thej 'statute of limitations. causing the! cu.se to be nolle pressed. lie had 1 been accused of killing his daugh- I i tor with a beer bottle during n drink-I drink-I ing party at his home, when she fail-i ! ed to obey h 1 rn as promptly as he I I Ished i It was after 10 years pent in thy state's prison that Johnson protest-i o.i his Innocence ni applied to Go -ernor Blaine f..i a pardon. He then claimed that his confession had been ! j made because of fear that he would I bo mobbed ATTIT1 DE EX PL UM.D This contradictory altitude of I Johnson In first admitting his guilt 'and later maintaining his Innocence luseo Governor Blaine to say that! "a man of ordinary strength of char- in ter and prudence does not accuse himself of crime, but Johnson's type! . might accuse himself falsely of crime j j through fear. hallucination, guilty knowledge of a crime, either as in j accessory. 01 as one who stood by, I 1 Innocent of the commission of crime, I though mentally too weak and depraved de-praved to follow any course except the course pursued by Johnson." co |