Statement issued by Governor Israel Pickens, granting parole to Adam Lowry of Morgan County, Alabama, who was convicted of hog and horse stealing.
Citizens of the county had asked the governor to excuse Lowry from the remaining part of his punishment: "That he is poor, appears penitent - and that...so far as example or reformation may be considered the objects of punishment, these have...had the effect so far as the kind of punishment is...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/3852 |
| Summary: | Citizens of the county had asked the governor to excuse Lowry from the remaining part of his punishment: "That he is poor, appears penitent - and that...so far as example or reformation may be considered the objects of punishment, these have...had the effect so far as the kind of punishment is calculated to afford it. Hoping sincerely that this penitence may prove a genuine one, and may end in a complete reform, and to give time to ascertain whether this may be the desirable result." The statement begins halfway down the first page. [Lowry's name is spelled inconsistently in the four documents pertaining to this case; the spelling in this statement is used here and in the subject headings listed below.] |
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