Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1914 — Governor Ralston Grants Pardon to Mrs. Lawson. [ARTICLE]

Governor Ralston Grants Pardon to Mrs. Lawson.

Mns. Alice Cooper Lawson, of Lafayette, who shot and killed her .husband in that city Sept. 21st, 1906, has been granted a full pardon by Governor Ralston. She had been paroled since October, 1910. Mrs. Lawson’s husband was a saloonkeeper and the shooting wais the result of years of domestic turmoil.