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of Page County and sentenced to two years imprisonment in the Penitentiary for larceny of less than one dollars worth of candy, all of which the court magnified into a felony, because the children entered the premises in absence of the owners, They should never have been made criminals, but what more could the county expect from a disloyal bench and jury.  The youngest of the boys on hearing that the Governor would in all probability pardon him, innocently asked if the pardon would hurt him?  A board of officers ought to be convened to take these cases under consideration and give the prisoners referred to the benefit of a rehearing; such a course I firmly believe would result in the honorable acquittal of some while the sentences of others might be mitigated.  The deep seated prejudice of these men in whose power it is particularly unfortunate for a union man to be leaves an unbiased mind to consider the utter impracticability of believing that these prisoners were arraigned before an impartial tribunal,  About thirty female prisoners (all colored) have recently

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