People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — Attorney Halfill Pardoned. [ARTICLE]

Attorney Halfill Pardoned.

Gov. Renfrew of Oklahoma Territory has granted a pardon to William D. Halflll, a well-known attorney of Newkirk, formerly of Winfield, Kan., who was sent to the penitentiary for five years for issuing a check on a bank In which he had no account. He issued the check to'give money to a little girl who was friendless on the street enabling her to go home, and was bitterly prosecuted. He has served nearly two years of his sentence and has become almost entirely blind.