Pingree Delivers The Pardons

Lansing, Micli., Jan. 29. - Governor Pingree added another chapter to nis dramatic career yesterday by going to Jackson prison and in person delivering pardons to August Furhman.CarlVoeirler, August Grossman and Henry Jacobs, who were eonvicted four years ago of the crime of murdering Albert Molitor at Rogers City, Presque Isle county, in 1873. Molitor was a dictator among his Germán countrymen, whom he had induced to settle in the wilderness. His reign became so despotic and cruel that a secret oath was taken by his subjects that they would take his Í Hfe. and that should any of the conspirators reveal the secret crime it should be fastenod upon him. The deed was accomplished as Molitor was working in his store one August night. No clue to the perpetrator3 was had until 1893, when one William Repke confessed to participation in it and implicated the men who were pardcned yesterday, and they were all eonvicted and sentenced to life [ ment. Subsequently Repke made affldavit that his testimony was perjuryThe case was then taken up by the state board of pardons, which after two years expressed the belief that the men were innocent, and that the real perpetrators of the crime were dead or beyond reach of law.