Newspaper Data
from Lawrence County, IL

PARDONED CRIMINALS
Something Concerning the Exercise of Executive Clemency in Illinois.
A List of Pardons Issued to Prisoners Under Sentence for Manslaughter and Murder.

Joner Coen; November 1869; murder; Lawrence County. fourteen years; pardoned February 1875. served five years; in this case the county officers, most of the attorney's, the sister, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law of the man killed, and many citizens, indorsed by Senator Henry, and certificate of good conduct from warden of the prison. [Inter-Ocean Springfield, January 17 1876, submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]

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