Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1913 — Offers Hair for Pardon. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Offers Hair for Pardon.

Mrs. Irvin Dodd of Boston, imploring the pardon committee of the governor's council to release her husband, serving two years for larceny, offered to sell her raven black hair, which reached to the ground, if thereby she could secure money to pay back an express ‘company the SSOO which he was convicted of stealing. Dennis D. Driscoll, assistant penal commissioner, appeared before the committee to urge that the pardon be granted. Judge Ely, who sentenced Dodd, sent a letter favoring a pardon.