LIFE SENTENCE ON WRONG MAN.
Five months ago Clarence McKinney Entered the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus ' to serve. a life sentence for murdering a. policeman. !. On March £i the warden sent for McKlnacy. i N ■ "You are free,' he told him. Oh, am tv was the cool reply. "It' 3 Just as well they didn't hang mc, Isn't It?" j "Yes" assented the warden, "for the ': chap who aid the job for which you were ; »cnt up here has pleaded guilty to burglary and manslaughter and confessed he com- , / 'niitted the crime the police fixed on you." Mrs. Mclfinney had been working as n IWaitress by day and ne laundress by night to earn money in an effort to establish her c Juisband's innocence. They had been tnar- ' *i»d only two months when he was sent to firlson. , She fainted with joy when told the good news.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 10 May 1923, Page 8
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