East Oregonian : E.O

TAFT GIVES PARDON
TO H. H. HENDRICKS
Portland, Ore., Jan. 2.—Another smashing blow to the land fraud convictions secured seven years ago by Francis J. Heney and William J. Burns was delivered in Washington when President Taft granted an absolute pardon to Hamilton H. Hendricks of Fossil, Ore., one of the men convicted by the famous convicting jury, now alleged to have been hand picked and carefully packed by Heney and Burns. News of the pardon was telegraphed by Hendricks to a friend in Portland, he having received a message from Washington saying the pardon was signed Tuesday night. It arrived in time to make New Year's day an especially happy one for Hendricks. Details are lacking as to the grounds upon which the pardon is extended, but it is supposed the reasons are the same as in the cases of Franklin Pierce Mays, William N. Jones and John H. Hall, all of whom were tried by men chosen from the same jury panel. In addition, the petition for pardon in Hendricks' case was supported by an affidavit from William Hawk, upon whose testimony the conviction of the Fossil man on a charge of subornation of perjury was obtained.