Bluefield Daily Telegraph
McDowell Co. WV
1915


Charleston Mail
March ``18, 1915

                                                                  
GOVERNOR EXTENDS   PARDON

                                 
Frank  Rodona, McDowell Man, Gets Executive Clemency


     
Up at the convict road camp at Snow Hill a surprise was given Frank 
Radona yesterday afternoon when he was informed that the governor 
had pardoned him.  

Radona had served almost 4 years of his five-year sentence.  
He is of Thomas,  but he was sent to the penitentiary for 
manslaughter from McDowell County.  His good behavior both at 
the penitentiary and since he has been such as to recommend 
him for clemency, and, furthermore,  he has had charge of all the
important masonry done on the new road.
     
He has never shirked a moment since he began serving his 
sentence, and the good he has accomplished about Snow Hill will 
remain as lasting evidence of his handiwork.  He built the heavy 
bridge work of concrete and shaped all the arches.  In fact, he 
has been an invaluable hand ever since the work on the roads was 
started by convict labor almost one year ago.