Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1910 — PARDON FOP DYING CONVICT [ARTICLE]

PARDON FOP DYING CONVICT

Pleas of Aged Mother Will Free Former Bank Teller Wortman. The Pennsylvania board of pardons has recommended a pardon for William S. Wortman, former teller of the Oakland Trust company of Pittsburg, now’ suffering from cancer. " An aged mother’s plea for her son during an illness that may prove fatal touched the hearts of the directors of the trust company and they joined in the petition of physicians and many prominent persons to have the young man released, so that he may spend with his wife. babe, and aged mother the few remaining days he has to live