Show SHORTENS SENTENCES OF FOUR PRISONERS President Taft Grants Appeal of Eighty Eighty- Year Old Year Old Mother Moth Moth- er for Son SOil Washington Dec 26 President President Taft raft has las dispensed Christmas cheer to four lour federal prisoners through commutation of sentence The pathetic appeal of at a n prisoners prisoner's year old old car mother forthe for tor the he son she had not seen for tor twenty years ears caused the President to commute to o expire at once the sentence of or Wll- Wll H lIam lam J. J Kee who pleaded guilty In 1906 I at St St. Joseph Mo ro to co counterfeiting His Hla torm term would have expired l April 21 1 1 i The President also commuted to exire expire ex- ex pire ire at once the life sentence of ot Howell Cobb an who vho ho pleaded guilty to murder at Indian Territory In 1898 and Charles Hopkins a negro convicted convicted con- con of at murder In the District of or Columbia Co- Co lumbia In 1891 The sentence of ot Fa Fayette F. F ArmstronG Armstrong Armstrong Arm Arm- strong convicted at Fort Smith Ark of or vIolating the retail liquor license law aw scheduled to expire May 20 O was ti shortened by a a. month and a half haIr U T I |