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1877.] ninety-three cents. Convicted at the November term, 1876, of the district court of Cedar county. Committed to the additional penitentiary, December 11, 1876. Sentence commuted to one year. Numerous petitions were presented requesting the pardon of McIntyre. Among the petitioners were Hon. John Shane, district judge, who tried the case, all the officers of the court, the prosecuting witness, the jurors on the trial, and about two hundred and fifty citizens of Cedar county. After an examination of the evidence, I am satisfied of McIntyre’s guilt, but I find many circumstances connected with the case that are mitigating, and that up to the time of this charge, he had uniformly borne a good character. I have no doubt that the ends of justice, under all the circumstances, will be fully satisfied by commuting one year of his sentence.

December 20. Crime, aiding and assisting prisoners to escape. Convicted at the March term of the Jefferson county district court. Sentence, three years in the penitentiary at Ft. Madison. Committed March 13, 1877. A petition requesting pardon was signed by about four hundred and fifty of the citizens of Jefferson county, including the entire bar at Fairfield, with one exception. I have also received letters from several of the prominent men of Fairfield in relation to the former good character of Cade. I am satisfied that he was guilty of a crime and ought to be punished, and therefore I could not grant him a pardon, but think his sentence somewhat severe, and have accordingly commuted it to one year.