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The Guthrie Daily Leader
Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahoma
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Assistant Attorney General Smith C. Matson opines that justices of the peace cannot pardon or parole boys committed to Oklahoma's Pauls Valley training school for delinquent white boys, which faces criticism for failing as a reform institution.
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Oklahoma City, Sept. 11. Justices of the peace who have committed boys to the state training school at Pauls Valley have no power after commitment of sentence to pardon or parole such boys. This is the gist of an opinion by Smith C. Matson, assistant attorney general, rendered for A. K. Gibson, superintendent of that school in answer to an inquiry.
The school at Paul's Valley is for delinquent and incorrigible white boys. It has been censured by the state board of education and others and is alleged to be falling short of what it was intended to be in the way of reform institution.
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Pauls Valley
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Sept. 11
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justices of the peace have no power to pardon or parole boys after commitment to the state training school.
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Justices of the peace who have committed boys to the state training school at Pauls Valley have no power after commitment of sentence to pardon or parole such boys. This is the gist of an opinion by Smith C. Matson, assistant attorney general, rendered for A. K. Gibson, superintendent of that school in answer to an inquiry. The school at Paul's Valley is for delinquent and incorrigible white boys. It has been censured by the state board of education and others and is alleged to be falling short of what it was intended to be in the way of reform institution.