Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1910 — To Ask Pardon for Walsh. [ARTICLE]

To Ask Pardon for Walsh.

Plans are under way for the formal presentation of a petition for pardon this week to President Taft, on behalf of John R. Walsh, according to Information which leaked out Saturday. It is said that the plea will be based upon the fact that Walsh is more than 70 years old and that he is in ill health. The Chicago financier, who was convicted after a long drawn-out court fight, is serving a sentence of five years in the'federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., for misapplying funds of the Chicago National bank. Walsh is said to have loathed presenting a petition for release, but upon the urgent request of friends has agreed to make a personal plea for pardon. Relatives of the aged man, who have made frequent- visits to the penitentiary, say that he is badly broken in health.