Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1920 — AGED WOMAN SEEKS PARDON [ARTICLE]

AGED WOMAN SEEKS PARDON

She Had a Ufa Term In the State Penitentiary. Mrs. Ida Mercer, sixty years old and serving a life term at the Colorado State penitentiary for the alleged murder of Cari Gregerson, her son-in-law, a tramway motorman, in May. 1914, will be one of the several applicants for clemency before the state board qf pardons, it has become known. J. J. Laton, attorney for the prisoner, has obtained a letter from John A. Perry, trial judge when she was convicted in February, 1916, and is seeking letters from jurors and witnesses by which her release will be sought. Judge Perry addressed his letter to Gov. Oliver H. -Shoup as head of the pardons board. The petition submitted to the board declares Mrs. Mercer has been a model prisoner, has aged rapidly.and desires to spend her remaining years with her daughter, Mi*. Arilne Gregerson, whose husband she \ killed, and to assist In caring for her grandchildren. ~;