Clay County Newspaper Data
Crime News

PARDONED CRIMINALS
Something Concerning the Exercise of Executive Clemency in Illinois.
A List of Pardons Issued to Prisoners Under Sentence for Manslaughter and Murder.
Lucien Cannon; April 1871; Murder; Clay County; 14 years; pardoned June 21 1875. In this case
twenty attorneys in the court, Judge Allen, the County Attorney, the Assistant State's Attorney, several of the jurors, and several hundred citizens unite is asking pardon. All speak of him as a boy, honest, industrious, impulsive, and generous, without any clement of a criminal. [Inter-Ocean Springfield, January 17 1876, submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]

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