Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1909 — PAROLE GRANTED FOUR MURDERERS [ARTICLE]

PAROLE GRANTED FOUR MURDERERS

Indiana’s Governor Pardons Quartet of Convicts. OTHERS DENIED CLEMENCY Four of the Men Allowed to Leave Prison Are Andrew Koerner Who Killed His Wife; Vincent Ginn Who Killed a Foreman at Middletown Plate Mills; Fred Ellis Who Put to Death John F. Krack, and Taylor Hughes Who Killed Man He Found St Home With His Wife. Indianapolis, July 13. Governor Marshall has paroled five convicts who are serving time for slaying men. They are Andrew Koerner of Marion county, convicted of killing his wife; Vincent Ginn of Henry county, convicted of killing Frank Giltner, foreman of the American Tin Plate mills at Middletown, Ind.; Fred Ellis, accused of killing John F. Krack in Brazil, Ind.; Lawrence Smith of Clay county, sentenced for manslaughter, and Taylor Hughes, a civil war veteran sent from Washington county for killing a man whom he found at home with his wife. The governor also pardoned four convicts and refused clemency to seven. Action in all cases was taken upon the recommendation of the state board of pardons.