Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-08-26 | Page 8 | Asking Pardon for Jahn Walsh

I ASKING PARDON FOR JOHN WALSH Chicago, Aug. 2;. A special from Wnphington says tjie stockholders and depositors of the wrecked state banks in Chlcafro, once dominated by John R Walsh, are practically a unit in asking the pardon of the former banker bank-er from the federal penitentiary at Ieavenworth. Kun . and he probably will be liberated by President Tail In any event, the proportion of these stockholders and depositors who Join the petition for a pardon will have a good deal to do with the decision de-cision of the department of justice on the question of recommending clemency. clem-ency. The department has been advised ad-vised that attorneys for Walsh now are striving to get signatures to their petition from nil persons Interested In any way In the banks at the time of their enforced dissolution.