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Daily Northwestern
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
17 August 1891

May Be Pardoned

New York, Aug. 17.
The movement looking to the securing of a pardon for Ameer Ben Ali, better known as "Frenchy", who was recently convicted of the murder of a woman in the slums, and sentenced to imprisonment for life, has gained strength since the latest ripper crime in London, and which demonstrated that "Frenchy" is not, as is often claimed, the criminal Jack the Ripper. "Frenchy" is now employed in the ? making department of Auburn Penitentiary. He has found it pretty hard to learn the trade, but is very attentive to his work. The prison officials have had no trouble with him, and Warden Durston says that he is as quiet as a kitten. The keepers who are brought into contact with him every day say that they believe he is entirely innocent of the crime of which he was convicted.


Related pages:
  Ameer Ben Ali
       Dissertations: The New York Affair, Part II 
       Press Reports: Daily Gazette and Bulletin - 11 July 1891 
       Press Reports: Daily Northwestern - 10 July 1891 
       Press Reports: Daily Northwestern - 29 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Daily Northwestern - 6 July 1891 
       Press Reports: Decatur Daily Republican - 15 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Decatur Daily Republican - 2 July 1891 
       Press Reports: Indiana County Gazette - 20 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Middletown Daily Times - 24 June 1891 
       Press Reports: Ogden Standard - 3 July 1891 
       Press Reports: Qu'Appelle Vidette - 28 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Trenton Times - 12 September 1894 
  Frenchy
       Dissertations: The Ripper in America 
       Press Reports: Arizona Republican - 1 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Arizona Republican - 19 August 1891 
       Press Reports: Arizona Republican - 26 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Bangor Daily Whig and Courier - 23 June 1891 
       Press Reports: Decatur Daily Republican - 1 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Decatur Daily Republican - 25 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Manitoba Daily Free Press - 27 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Middletown Daily Times - 30 April 1891 
       Press Reports: Ogden Standard - 1 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Trenton Times - 2 May 1891 
       Press Reports: Trenton Times - 27 April 1891