Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1908 — An Unintentional Misrepresentation [ARTICLE]

An Unintentional Misrepresentation

In the article published in the Republican last week about the recent effort made by Tom McCoy to be paroled from the penitentiary, a very serious blunder was made and rected by all the papers that publis’e the same article, to be of permanent injury to Michael E. Foley, of Crawfordsville. The article as used by the Republican was taken from a Hammond paper, and it soon gained circulation all over the Btate and was published in almost all county seat papers. It stated that Mr. Foley was Mr. McCoy’s attorney and that he appeared before the board of parole and interceded for hia client. , The fact of the matter is that Mr. Foley is himself a member of the parole board and could not therefore represent the interests of anyone asking for a parole before the board. McCoy's attorneys at his trial we:e Haywood and McHugh, of Lafayette, and it is probable that these lawyers are now looking after his interests in whatever way they can. But it is Impossible for a law.' er representative of any prisoner to appear before the board, this being prohibited by law.

Mr. Foley was naturally gre tly p rturbed when It fras published that he appeared before a board to which he himself belonged to the attorney for McCoy, and he naturally wants to have the corrected. Mr. Foley has written the Republican a very nice letter upon the subject, and In it he states that both times McCoy has appeared lefoie the board of parole he has voted to reject the application, and the records of the penitentiary so show. Mr. Foley Is a member of the law firm of Thomas ft Foley, at Crawfordsvllle, where he has astabllslied a reputation for honesty and stability, and the Republican Is pleased to correct the unintentional error It made In common with so many other papers.