PARDONED CRIMINALS
Something Concerning the Exercise of Executive Clemency in Illinois.
A List of Pardons Issued to Prisoners Under Sentence for Manslaughter and Murder.
A.P. Mingea; May 1869, murder; Massac County, 20 years; pardoned May 19, 1875. The papers
in this case are very voluminous. Judge David J. Baker, who sentenced him, writes recommending his pardon.
Elmer Washburn, late Warden, the prosecuting attorneys, and almost the entire community where he resided speak highly of him, and deem his imprisonment sufficient. The convection was almost wholly on circumstantial evidence, and there seems good grounds for executive interference. Mingeas is claimed to be a talented high minded man, and there is reason to believe that he for reasons creditable to the noblest mind, voluntarily assumed the odium of the crime to save others.
[Inter-Ocean Springfield, January 17 1876, submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
JOLIET NEWS.
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
JOILET, ILL., Jan. 26-A convict named Lafayette Williams, who was sentenced from Massac County in May last to one year's imprisonment for burglary and larceny, died in his cell at the State Penitentiary, very suddenly, Wednesday evening, of suffocation, caused by the bursting of an abscess of the pharynx superinduced by inflammation of the tonsils. The prison physician, Dr. Helse, assisted by Dr. William Dougall, made a post-mortem examination and certified as to the cause of the man's death. [The Chicage Tribune. Saturday, January 27, 1877 submitted by Sharon Foe]
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