Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1907 — President on January’s Case. [ARTICLE]

President on January’s Case.

Washington, May I.—President Roosevelt In a note to the department of justice expressed the opinion that John William January, alias Anderson, of Missouri, should have his sentence coinmutted at once or be pardoned outright. January was convicted some years ago of robbing a postoffice in Oklahoma and served the greater portion of a five-year sentence in Leavenworth. He then escaped and after nine years of liberty was re-ar-rested In Kansas City and returned to prison. Many petitions have readied the president asking for his pardon.