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Show HIRES MAN TO SERVE HIS TERM Harding Orders Inquiry Into Employment of Jail Substitutes WASHINGTON, Nov. is. The attention at-tention of President Harding has been I called through an appeal for clem-jeney clem-jeney to an unusual occurrence in Cleveland. Ohio the employment by a feel(ral prisoner of a substitute t servo liis sentence at the rate of ?10 a day. The appeal for clemency, first mad" to the president several weeks ag and renewed Friday, wr.s in behalf of B third man who has been convicted in Cleveland for conspiracy In connection con-nection -uith a loan made to the federal fed-eral offender by whic h he was able to hire lns substitute. BECOMI S OMMON. The story was considered by tho president when first told him as : ;irrcly believable but the one who made the request for clemency for tUp petition assured the president It was not onl true In all its details, I but that the practice of hiring substl-tutea substl-tutea by convicted prisoners was not I uncommon in several states and that the standard pay of the substitute was $10 a day. Convinced that the representations were based on facts and that some collusion Involving federal officials must exist, the president asked the department of Justice to look into the matter and is now awaiting a report v-!vs HIGHER PA1 The Cleveland occurrence as detail -cd to the president, concerned a man who was sentenced In federal court to ;0 days in a workhouse. Some time between pronouncement of the sentence sen-tence and becrinning of his term, h9 obtained a loan of $300 and with the money hired a man to sere the sentence sen-tence for him. Ihe substitute, carrying carry-ing out Ills part of the contract and fter having been refused 'a demand more pay. Informed the authorities of the matter. The result was that the. lender of the money was brought to trial on charges of conspiracy and now faces a sentence of three montaa. |