Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — Given Pecuniary Satisfaction. [ARTICLE]

Given Pecuniary Satisfaction.

Two brothers named Habron were convicted at Manchester, England, some time ago, of murdering a policeman, and condemned to death. Doubts of their guilt having arisen they were reprieved. Before the expiration of their reprieve another man was arrested for the crime and confessed that he committed it. As a result the Habrons have been not “pardoned,” as is the American procedure in similar cases, but “released,” and, in compensation for the law’s blunder, have received SIO,OOO from the treasury.