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Alfred E. Smith, Governor of New York: "Followers of law and politics have often observed that the question of pardon is one of a governor's most serious problems, as one pardon inevitably leads to a host of applications for others. Last week I was presented with 10,000 signatures urging clemency for Brooklyn Patrolman John J. Brennan, 28, condemned to the electric chair. On Jan. 2 one Samuel Krainen, shopkeeper, called at a Brooklyn police station, and identified Brennan as one who had created a disturbance in his shop when drunk. As a sergeant was thereupon removing Brennan...
Next day, Henry Hudson, faithful Negro servant to the Governor, shouldered all the blame; pleaded guilty to the ownership of the confiscated liquor. "Henry, how could you?" said the Governor; forth with announcing that he would pardon honest Henry before retiring from his office in January...
Over the week end, however, something "unforeseen" occurred, for in Monday's papers the John Lane officials begged the public's pardon: they were sorry but, entirely innocent themselves, they had fathered the hoax. The book was quite spurious, and was written by one who was ignorant of those about whom he gossiped and lacked the background necessary to such in time chatter. Would everyone who had bought the book please return it to the publishers and get their refund? If the purchasers would be so obliging all would again be serene, feelings would be soothed, and the whole matter...
...Jeremiah McAuley, son of an Irish counterfeiter, and a river thief and drunkard on his own initiative, received a pardon signed by Secretary of State [of New York] Chauncey M. Depew, after serving seven years of a fifteen-year sentence for highway robbery. Eight years later this McAuley founded a mission at No. 316 Water Street, Manhattan, where wharf life is drably vile. His slogan was "The Man No One Else Wants." Drunkards, drug addicts, broken down sports, panhandlers, sick street-creatures could get a bed, a wash, a meal. It was the first city rescue mission in New York...
...Noose. Act I: The hero refuses to tell why he killed the burly bootlegger; and the audience wonders why the wife of "The Governor of the State" pleads for a pardon on the grounds that the hero is "more sinned against than sinning." Act II: Cut back to the murder in a sprightly milieu of harlots and bootleggers like that in a prior hit, Broadway* (TIME, Sept. 27). Act III: So the bootlegger murdered by the hero was his f-th-r . . . and the Governor's wife was his m-th-r. . . . Shissh, Shussh! Off with the noose...