Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1902 — NEELY IS RELEABED. [ARTICLE]

NEELY IS RELEASED.

Cuban Prison Bars Open for the Postal Fraud Swindler, C. F. W. Neely, who March 24 was sentenced at Havana to ten years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $50,701 for complicity in the Cuban postal frauds, has been released under the bill signed by President Palma, granting amnesty to all Americans convicted of crimes in Cuba during the terra of the American occupation and those awaiting trial. The trials before the audencia court of Havana of the cases arising from the embezzlement of Cuban postal funds resulted, March 24, in the sentencing of C.. F. W. Neely as set forth above; of W. H. Reeves to ten years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $35,510, and of Estes O. Rathbone to ten years’ imprisonment and to pa/ a fine of $35,324. Reeves was pardoned and liberated April 22 by former Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood, because he was a witness for the State in the trials of Havana. Rathbone was released in SIOO,OOO ball April 21 and later President Roosevelt ordered that his case be reviewed. Joseph Pearson, a horse jockey, was Shot and instantly killed by his wife, Louise, at the latter’s home in Pittsburg, Pa. He was about to strike her on the head, when she fired at him, the bullet lodging in his brain, and he fell a corpse at her feet. Johnnie Ophan, aged 7 • years, was drowned ib Lyons creek, south of Junction City, Kan. He was attempting to cross the stream; which was rising rapidly. After the drowning the stream continued rising until it was twenty feet above its usual level.