Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1913 — FREED ON MYTHICAL PAROLE [ARTICLE]

FREED ON MYTHICAL PAROLE

Sheriff Took Some One’s Word for It on Way to Prison and Turned His Man Loose.

Santa Fe, N. II. —Octaviano Telles, convicted in 1909 of complicity in the murder of a man In Valencia county, in 1890, and who has been at liberty for more than three years under the impression that he bad been granted a parole by the governor, has begun serving a sentence of three years in the state penitentiary. The fact that a parole was never granted Teles was discovered recently by Governor McDonald, and he ordered the man's arrest and incarceration. After the murder Telles left the Territory and remained away for fifteen years. Suspicion had strongly attached to him. He returned tn 1909 and was tried and convicted. In custody of the sheriff he started for the prison here. When the train reached Albuquerque the sheriff was advised by some man, whose name is not

mentioned, that be was going to the capital for a parole, in a few hours the sheriff was advised that the parole was granted and Telles was allowed to go back to his farm.