People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — BATTLED SEVEN YEARS FOR LIFE [ARTICLE]

BATTLED SEVEN YEARS FOR LIFE

Calif ornia's Governor Finally Commute fc.. the Sentence of a Murderer. Sacramento, CaL, Jan. 29.—The sentence of John McNulty, condemned to hang, has been commuted by Gov. Markham to imprisonment for life. Seven years ago he shot Patrick Collins. The murderer was but 19 years of age and he got much sympathy. For nearly seven years he has been in jail. Six times has the day for his death been fixed, five times a gallows has been erected from which he expected to drop to death, but each time execution of his sentence has been stayed.