Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1919 — Governor Paroles Two Men. [ARTICLE]
Governor Paroles Two Men.
Indianapolis, July 11—Executive clemency was extended to two prisoners by Governor Goodrich. Jesse Thomas, convicted in the Putnam circuit court August 9, 1918, and sentenced to serve from two to five years in the state reformatory for escaping from the penal farm, was paroled, also John O’Brien of Indianapolis, convicted in the Marlon county criminal court December 26, 1918, on a charge of violating the prohibition law, was paroled.
