Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1889 — CLEMENCY FOR FISH. [ARTICLE]

CLEMENCY FOR FISH.

The President Commut* s His Sentence ai d He Will Soon _ Get Out. The President has commuted the sentence of James D. Fish, formerly President of the’ Marine National Bank of New York, who was convicted in April, 1885, of misapplying the funds of that bank and sentenced June 27, 1885 to ten years’ imprisonment in the State Prison at Auburn, N. Y., upon the first count of the indictment with the statement that judgment for a like punish meHt Avill be entered upon conviction had r under ten other counts of the indictment. The President commutes the ten year sentence to five years and eflx months, with the usual allowance for good conduct The petition for commution was numerously signed by men of business integrity, and with the prisoner’s failing health the President believes is sufficient reason for his taking the action he dots.