Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1909 — DEPORTING FOREIGN FELONS [ARTICLE]

DEPORTING FOREIGN FELONS

Amos W. Butler, secretary of the board of state charities, is preparing to take up, at once an inquiry at the state prison to ascertain whether or not any of the foreign born inmates may be deported under the federal law which provides that any person convicted of a felony within three years after his arrival in the United States may be deported. The Inquiry is to be made at the request of Governor Marshall, who desires to relieve the state of the expense of caring for such prisoners and. to relieve the commonwealth of being inflicted with their presence after their release. Similar action taken in New York recently resulted in 319 of the 990 foreign convicts being deported.—lndianapolis News. If all of the fellows who are alleged to have committed felonies at the election in Lake county last fall had been convicted it would require a good-sized ship to carry them all: across the Atlantic.