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tion.
The youth of Kelley, who is only
24 years of age, was one of the rea
sons given by Governor Brough for
commuting his sentence. Other reas
ons given were that Kelley had stood
by the authorities at the peniteniary
at a critical time and prevented se
rious trouble, and that he now seems
deeply repentant of his crime. The
governor said yesterday that as long
as he is governor there will be no fur
ther intervene >n in the case. He be
lieves that ivelley should be required
to spend the rest of his life in the
penitentiary, but he hopes that farm
life in the open will, through his clem
ency, enable Kelley to render some
service to society.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, June 25.— Governor
Brough today commuted the death
sentence of Chess Kelley to life im
prisonment in the state penitentiary.
CheSS Kelley was convicted of first
degree murder by shooting and killing
Herman Harmon in a house of immor
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al resort in Newport, on June 9th,
1917. Gov. Brough stated that he had
given this matter very careful consid
eration; that the crime was a das
tardly one; that young Harmon, who
was murdered was a member of Com
pany E, Third Arkansas Infantry,
and greatly beloved by his officers
and fellow soldiers. However, the
governor has been besieged by some
of the leading citizens of the state in
cluding a large number of representa
tive citizens of Jackson county and
ministers and social workers from all
over the state, to commute the sen
tence to life imprisonment. They
have represented that the electrocu
tion of Chess Kelley would not
strengthen the enforcement of the
law and that the commutation of the
sentence need not change the degree
of murder but only the punishment
therefor.
The governor calls attention to the
fact that the jury who tried Kelley’s
case when they found him guilty of
murder in the first degree, as
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charged in the indictment, did not fix
the penalty and that eleven of the
twelve jurors have petitioned the gov
ernor to commute the sentence to life
imprisonment. The youth of Kelley,
who is only 24 years of age; the fact
that he stood by the authorities of the
peniteniary at a critical time and p
vented serious trouble and possibly
saved the lives of the officers in
charge and others; the additional
fact that he is deeply repentant of his
crime; that he has been reading the
Bible regularly and has expressed
himself to good women who have in
terviewed him, as a changed man, are,
in the opinion of Governor Brough,
deserving of the consideration in the
question of commuting his sentence.
The governor adds, that as long as he
is governor there will be no further
intervention in the case and that he
believes that he should be required to
spend the rest of his natural life in
the state penitentiary at hard la
bor because the crime which Kelley
committed has no justification, either
in law or in the facts surrounding the
Killing. *
The governor extends this clemency
to the young man in the hope ef
giving him a chance to completely re
form and believing that farm life in
the open, under the discipline of the
penitentiary authorities will enable
him to render some service to society,
which he has greatly outraged by tak
ing the life of one of Jackson county's
young men who, at the time, had vol
unteered for the service of his coun
try. Governor Brough stated that his
office has been overwhelmed within j
the last two weeks by petitions and j
letters asking for commutation of the j
sentence and that a large number of !
representative citizens, without any
inerest either directly or indirectly i)
he case and purely as a matter of hu
maniy, have interceded in Kelley’s
behalf.
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amount of fuel on hand, the amount
you will require to April 1, 1919, and
the kind of fuel you use.
This report should be made not la
ter than July 2nd, 1918.
W. D. McLain,
Chairman U. S. Fuel Administration <
of Jackson County, Arkansas i
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