Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1913 — QUAKE COMMUTES SENTENCE [ARTICLE]

QUAKE COMMUTES SENTENCE

Convict Gets Term Reduced When It Is Discovered That Record Was Destroyed. San Francisco.—“ Jack" Black, a California convict, was able to reduce a twenty-five-year sentence to on* year, when it was found that the erthquake and lire six years ago had destroyed the record which would pat the longer sentence into force Pending the execution of his long sentence Black escaped to Canada. When arrested his offense was found not to be extraditable and Canadian officers poshed him across the line, where he was token by United States officials. When brought before Judge Duane he was sentenced to on* year at Baa Quentin. It being stated that Black'd Incarceration In the county Jail already represented a fourteen-years’ sentence, with good behavior. Black promised the court Is straighten np and reform.