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1877.] and that he then plead guilty to murder in the second degree. Judge Sampson, (before whom McCabe had been tried,) the circuit judge, the deputy warden, Hon. Wm. H. Seevers, of Mahaska county, and the sheriff and two hundred and ninety-eight other citizens of Keokuk county, recommended the pardon.

Nov. 27. Sentenced November 22, 1876, to ten days in Johnson county jail for disorderly conduct. Pardoned at request of Henry Vanderlip, C. T. Estabrook, William Sherlock, and sixty-one other citizens of Oxford, Johnson county, on condition of paying costs.

December 6. Sentenced to the Penitentiary by Cass county district-court, on the 9th day of September, 1876, for the term of six months. Crime, burglary. Committed September 13. This pardon is granted on condition that if Snyder shall be found intoxicated within one year, pardon shall be null and void, and he may be remanded to the penitentiary by order of the governor to serve out the balance of his sentence. The pardon is recommended by the district-attorney who prosecuted him: “the ends of justice” having been “subserved.” Petition for pardon was signed by seven of the jurors who convicted him, the deputy clerk, the county treasurer, the sheriff and deputy, the city marshal and fifty-one other persons.

December 6. Clarke county. Convicted of larceny at November term, 1876, and sentenced for a term of three months in the Penitentiary. He is crippled and deformed. His moral character and reputation for honesty heretofore have been good, but his mind partakes of the imbecility of his body, making him scarcely accountable for his actions. Pardon asked for by John Chaney, M. L. Temple, S. P. Ayres, Stuart Bros., the county auditor, the county recorder, nine of the trial jury, and one hundred and sixty-two other citizens of the county, the district-attorney, and the treasurer of state.

December 22. Committed to the Additional Penitentiary May 1, 1876, from Cedar county, for the crime of forging an order of twenty-five dollars. Term, one and a half years. All the testimony in the case was the evidence taken before the grand jury. By the advice of his counsel he plead guilty, although holding out in conversation to the last that he was innocent, but was not able to prove the same, and by advice threw himself on the mercy of the court. He always bore a good character previous to this alleged crime, and his conduct during his confinement has been unexceptionable. Pardon recommended by the district judge and district-attorney, ex-sheriff