October 11, 1876. Eli Brown. Sentenced June 11, 1873; county, New York; crime, grand larceny; term five years; prison, Sing Sing.

Granted upon the request of the prison investigating commission. He is to be used as a witness.

October 23, 1876. Annie Walker. Sentenced February 8, 1875; county, New York; crime, robbery ; term, fifteen years; prison, New York county penitentiary.

Is a young colored girl who seems to have been severely dealt with. Her release is asked for by Mr. Bigelow.

November 20, 1876. Isaiah Miller and Thomas Gordon. Sentenced October 24, 1876; county, New York; crime, assault and battery; term, two months; prison, New York county penitentiary.

The presiding justice is convinced that the sentence is excessive. November 24, 1876. George Stevens. Sentenced November 6, 1874; county, New York; crime, forgery in the third degree; term, four years and six months; prison, Sing Sing.

Stevens was charged with uttering a forged check of thirty-eight dollars. He deposited it in a savings bank to his own credit. When arraigned he pleaded guilty. Ignorance seems to have been the cause of his difficulty.

November 24, 1876. Antoine Tredo. Sentenced June 5, 1865; county, Clinton; crime, burglary in the second degree; term, five years; prison, Clinton.

Prisoner escaped from prison November 5, 1866; he was rearrested and returned on the 18th day of March, 1875. During the greater part of the eight years and four months he was at liberty he was a resident of the town of Dannemora and engaged as a laborer for the State and known to many as an escaped convict. He was temperate and industrious, working daily to comfortably maintain a feeble wife and family of children. The ends of justice did not seem to demand, in the opinion of the public, that he should be returned, and he was treated as a reformed convict. By his rearrest and confinement his family are made paupers and are supported by the authorities of the town. The citizens feel aggrieved and condemn the action of the man who arrested and returned him for no other motive than to obtain the fifty dollars to which he was entitled by law for bringing an escaped convict back from prison. The commission to investigate the affairs of the State prisons have had a personal interview with Tredo, have carefully examined into all the facts of his case, and recommend him to clemency.

November 24, 1876. Robert Frasher. Sentenced September 7, 1876; county, Chemung; crime, petit larceny; term, six months; prison, Monroe county penitentiary.

The judge, district attorney and complainant urge the pardon, as prisoner is dying. He is but eighteen years old and this was his first offense.

November 24, 1876. Alfred Birge. Sentenced December 16, 1874 ; county, Livingston; crime, misplacing a railroad switch; term, five years; prison, Auburn.

Prisoner is a young man of good character who committed the crime while intoxicated, at the time not realizing its enormity. He is now dying of consumption and for this reason his pardon is applied for by the judge, present and former district attorneys and others.

November 27, 1876. Robert Harrington. Sentenced October 11, 1875; county, Greene; crime, assault to rob; term, two years; prison, Albany county penitentiary.

His guilt is questioned. The judge, justice of the sessions and district attorney therefore recommend his release.

November 27, 1876. Thomas McDonovan. Sentenced October 19, 1874; county, New York; crime, petit larceny from the person; term, five years; prison, Sing Sing.

The sum taken was one dollar. He is lying sick in the prison hospital and the time already served seems to have subserved the ends of justice.

November 29, 1876. Pietro Steffani. Sentenced April 2, 1874;

county, New York; crime murder in the second degree; term life; prison, Sing Sing; transferred to the Auburn Asylum for

Insane convicts.

Granted upon the condition that he be taken out of this country within thirty days after his release. He is hopelessly insane. His relatives have made proper provisions for him in his native country, Switzerland.

December 6, 1876. John J. Groat. Sentenced January 17, 1876; county, Albany; crime burglary in the third degree; term, two years; prison, Albany county penitentiary. Judge and district attorney favor his release, as there are many mitigating circumstances about the case.

December 7, 1876. Levy Arons. Sentenced December 7, 1875; county, New York; crime, receiving stolen goods; term, two years and six months; prison, Sing Sing.

This seems to be a case of mistaken identity.

December 7, 1876. John Sloan. Sentenced April 24, 1872; county, Kings; crime, robbery in the first degree; term ten years; prison, Sing Sing; transferred to Clinton.

The prisoner had saved a keeper's life, who had been attacked by

convicts.

December 16, 1876. William J. Ree. Sentenced February 7, 1876; county, New York; crime, forgery; term, five years; prison, Clinton.

Granted upon the united recommendations of the Prison Inspectors and Mr. A. Č. Niven, one of the prison investigating commission, who have carefully examined into the merits of the case and doubt his guilt.

December 16, 1876. Edwin Perry. Sentenced April 20, 1870; county, Kings; crime, murder in the second degree; term, life; prison, Sing Sing.

Granted upon the recommendation of the entire prison investigating commission.

December 16, 1876. John Savage. Sentenced January 14, 1875; county, Albany; crime, assault with intent to do bodily harm; term, three years; prison, Clinton.

The judge and district attorney recommend his pardon upon facts and circumstances which have come to their knowledge since the trial.

December 16, 1876. Sanford H. Gerry. Sentenced March 16, 1875; county, Livingston; crime, assault to kill; term, two years and six months; prison, Auburn.

This was a family row. The prisoner at the time was crazy drunk. The judge and district attorney deem him a fit subject for clemency.

December 16, 1876. Clark Nichols. Sentenced November 17, 1875; county, Livingston; crime, grand larceny ;` term, one year and six months; prison, Auburn.

The petition embraces the names of about all the leading and prominent citizens of the the town of Leicester, where the offense was committed. The offense was a boyish scrape the extent of which he did not realize.

December 16, 1876. Harry M. Tingley. Sentenced March 7, 1876; county, New York, crime, forgery in the fourth degree; term, one year and six months; prison, Sing Sing.

Governor Lippit, of Rhode Island, and others who are personally acquainted with prisoner's family, earnestly ask the pardon.

December 29, 1876. Joseph L. Alexander. Sentenced October 15, 1875; county, Oneida; crime, burglary in the third degree and larceny; term, five year; prison, Auburn.

The prisoner is well connected and his pardon is asked by many eminent citizens who believe that the interests of justice as well as of mercy will be served by his release.

December 29, 1876. Hugh Bogan. Sentenced December 14, 1872; county, New York; crime, robbery in the first degree; term, twenty years; prison, Sing Sing.

Many leading business men urge the pardon in the strongest terms. As the evidence on the part of the prosecution is shaken by the subsequent declarations of the main witness at the trial, and District Attorney Garvin seems to acquiesce in his release; all interests of justice seem to be subserved.

December 30, 1876. John McMahon. Sentenced April 13, 1876; county, Rensselaer; crime, burglary in the third degree and grand larceny; term, three years; prison, Clinton.

Both the judge and district attorney recommended his pardon, as they are satisfied that he was led into the commission of the crime by his co-defendant, who has now been released from imprisonment with very slight punishment.

December 30, 1876. Morris Higgins. Sentenced February 9, 1874; county, New York; crime, rape; term, twenty years; prison, Sing Sing.

It is evident that he is innocent of the crime. District Attorney Phelps thinks he should be pardoned.

COMMUTATIONS.

January 8, 1876. John A. Rose. Sentenced June 5, 1872; county, Erie; crime, rape; term, twenty years; prison, Anburn. Sentence commuted to five years, subject to the legal deduction for good conduct. The Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario, Canada, Judge James of Ogdensburgh, and others, have acquainted themselves with all the facts in the case, and doubt the prisoner's guilt. The mother of the complainant unites in the application. January 19, 1876. Lodicae Fredenburgh. Sentenced November 22, 1875; county, Herkimer; crime, murder; to be hanged December 31, 1875; respited until February 4, 1876; prison, county jail.

Sentence commuted to imprisonment in the Sing Sing State prison for the term of her natural life. Her extreme age, and the doubts raised as to her sanity, call for executive interference.

February 4, 1876. James Brannagan.

Sentenced December 9, 1864; county, New York; crime, manslaughter in the first degree; term, life; prison, Sing Sing.

Sentence commuted to eighteen years, subject to the legal deduction for good conduct. The prosecuting officer is in favor of treating the case as one of manslaughter in the third degree, for he thinks that such would have been the verdict had there been a trial.

March 3, 1876. Nelson H. Cool. Sentenced October, 1875; county, Cattaraugus; crime, murder; to be hanged November 26, 1875; respited until March 3, 1876; respited again until March 31, 1876; prison, county jail.

Sentence commuted to imprisonment in the Auburn State prison for the term of his natural life. Cool is twenty-two years old. The wife of the deceased was his accomplice. After his conviction the woman, who, from the evidence, was the instigator of the crime, was found guilty of murder in the second degree only.

March 7, 1876. Waldo E. Fuller and Edgar C. Fuller.

Sentenced

November 10, 1875; county, New York; crime, assault and battery; term, six months; prison, New York county penitentiary.

Both sentences commuted to four months actual service. The district attorney recommends it. They were innocent of any criminal intent, being badly advised as to their rights.

March 14, 1876. Israel Jemison. Sentenced December 16, 1874; county, Cattaraugus; crime, grand larceny; term, two years and six months; prison, Auburn.

Sentence commuted to one year and six months, subject to the legal deduction for good conduct. Is an Indian, and while drunk ran away with a peddler's pack, which had been left standing at the door of a village grocery. The district attorney asks his release.

March 14, 1876. Richard Murphy. Sentenced January 21, 1873; county, Ontario; crime, assault to kill; term, five years and three months; prison, Auburn.

Sentence cominuted to four years and three months subject to the legal deduction for good conduct. Judge Mason recommends clemency. The term of service of the prisoner's brother, guilty of the same offense, expired several days ago.

March 16, 1876. John Cullen. Sentenced November 19, 1875; county, Erie; crime, petit larceny; term, one year; prison, Erie county penitentiary.

Sentence commuted to four months actual service. He is becoming insane.

March 21, 1876. Michael Murphy. Sentenced October 16, 1874; county, Rockland; crime, murder; to be hanged December 4, 1874; stay of proceedings granted and resentenced to be hanged April 7, 1876; prison, county jail.

Sentence commuted to imprisonment in the Sing Sing state prison for the term of his natural life. Recommended by justices of the Supreme Court, J. F. Barnard, C. E. Pratt and J. W. Gilbert, who heard the case at the General Term and doubt whether the prisoner was guilty of the crime of which he was convicted.