Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — Fardon Refused. [ARTICLE]

Fardon Refused.

Columbus, 0., March 6. —W. J. Elliott, the editor of the Columbus Sunday Capital, who shot and killed his city editor, A. C. Osborn, in 1891, and is now serving a life sentence for it, will have to remain in prison. The state board of pardons has rejected his application for a pardon.