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The Evening Statesman
Walla Walla, Walla Walla County, Washington
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State penitentiary reaches record 701 prisoners with eight new arrivals today from Thurston and King counties, including death sentence for murder and terms for assault, burglary, larceny, sodomy attempt, and robbery.
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Over Seven Hundred Prisoners at the
Penitentiary.
By the arrival of eight new prisoners
at the penitentiary today the highest
notch in the
number enrolled
was
reached. The total number of convicts now serving at the state institution
is 701. Those who were received
today were the following:
From
Thurston
county
Charles
Clark, under sentence of death for
murder of his mistress at Olympia.
From King county—E. A. Yates. assault to commit murder. two years;
George Williams, assault with deadly
weapon, one year; Arthur Clegg, burglary one and one-half years; Thomas
Gray. burglary.
one
and
one-half
years;
Charles Riley,
larceny
from
person, two years; W. L. McKermon.
assault with attempt to commit sodomy, one year; J. B. Allison, robbery,
twenty years.
Allison is a negro, who was recently
released from the penitentiary, and
who attempted to saw his way out of
the King county jail several days ago.
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State Penitentiary
Event Date
Today
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Outcome
total number of convicts now 701, highest ever; sentences include death for murder, two years for assault to commit murder, one year for assault with deadly weapon, one and one-half years for burglary, two years for larceny from person, one year for assault with attempt to commit sodomy, twenty years for robbery
Event Details
Arrival of eight new prisoners at the penitentiary reaches highest number enrolled at 701. New prisoners from Thurston county: Charles Clark, under sentence of death for murder of his mistress at Olympia. From King county: E. A. Yates, assault to commit murder, two years; George Williams, assault with deadly weapon, one year; Arthur Clegg, burglary one and one-half years; Thomas Gray, burglary one and one-half years; Charles Riley, larceny from person, two years; W. L. McKermon, assault with attempt to commit sodomy, one year; J. B. Allison, robbery, twenty years. Allison is a negro recently released from the penitentiary who attempted to saw his way out of the King county jail several days ago.