Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1901 — PLEADS FOR HER SON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PLEADS FOR HER SON.

Widow of General Fremont Aaka that Mercy Be fr-hown Her Boy. “Mercy for my son,” is the plea of Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow of first

Republican presidential candidate, Gen, John C. Fremont, to President Roosevelt. The President has before him the court martial proceedings in the case of Capt. F. P. Fremont of the Second infantry in the Philippines, sentenced to be suspended from rank

for six months on half pay and to be confined, as may be directed, for assaulting an enlisted man.

MRS. FREMONT.