Montgomery County GaArchives News.....CHANNELL WANTS PARDON February 6, 1903
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Savannah Morning  News February 6, 1903
                          CHANNELL WANTS PARDON
                          Savannah Morning News
                             6 February 1903
     W. T. Channell, former depot agent at Elmwood, in Montgomery county, who in
March, 1899, shot and killed W. H. Thompson, postmaster of that town, and who is
now serving a life sentence in the penitentiary of the state, has filed an
application for a pardon. The case will be considered by the Board of Pardons.
Channell, it will be remembered, killed Thompson alleging as an excuse for doing
so that the postmaster had been circulating reports detrimental to the character
of Mrs. Channell. The jury that tried the case found Channell guilty of murder.
He was sentenced to be hung, and the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the
lower court. Later Gov. Chandler, upon recommendation of the Board of Pardons
commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. The action of the Governor was kept
under cover from the people of Montgomery county until Mr. Pierson, called at
the Montgomery county jail and assumed control of Channell. 

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