Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1910 — President Will Be Asked by Petition to Pardon John R. Walsh. [ARTICLE]

President Will Be Asked by Petition to Pardon John R. Walsh.

At 10:46 o’clock Tuesday morning a collection of petitions, signed by more than 26,000 people will be presented to President Taft asking that Johh R. Walsh be pardoned from the government penitentiary at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He is ill and it is hoped to secure his pardon so that he will not die in the penitentiary. W. A. Callop, representative from the Second Indiana district will make the application. Among the signers are many thousands of working men who are employed in the Indiana stone quarries which Walsh helped to develop. Mr. Callop said in reference ~to the petition: “Mr. Walsh is very popular in Indians!. It would have been impossible to have found a jury that would have convicted him in the section of the state where he conducted his railroad and stone quarry operations.”