Show LAWYER WILL BE RELEASED albany N july 9 it became known here today that gov haggins several days ago commuted the sentence of thomas P wickes the new york lawyer who was sentenced to a years imprisonment upon of blackmail lu the writing of the no corlous lewia jarels letters in these letters he sought as it was alleged to secure advantages in legal business by writing letters about himself signing them with the name of lewis jarels gov higgans is out of town but his secretary frank E perley tonight said that wickes sentence had been commuted last week so as to effect his immediate release from prison the names of choso who recommended wickes commutation are withheld but it Is said they included men prominent in now york legal circles including the district attorney mr perley said wickes friends had secured for him a promising bustnes busl nes opening in alaska and that the governors action waa made conditional upon his going ther I 1 |