Max Mason. Application No. 5702. 1922-1924.
Type of event: Incarcerations
Location: Minnesota; United States
Document date:
Document type: Gov't Record(s)
Document subtype: Pardon Application
Documents: Max Mason. Application No. 5702. 1922-1924.
Citation:
Minnesota. Board of Pardons.
Max Mason: Application No. 5702.
Pardon Application.
File no. 5702, 1922-1924.
Application.
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No. 5702_
Name Max
Mason__
PRISON
STATE OF MINNESOTA
BOARD OF PARDONS
APPLICATION
To the Board of Pardons
OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA
1. The
application of Max
Mason No.6785
for
a pardon or commutation of sentence
2.
Pleaded guilty on the
30th day of
July 1921 in the
District
Convictedü
court in and for
the County of St. Louis
of the crime
of Rape
and imprisoned in
the State Prison
on Aug.
8, 1921 for the term of Ind.-Max 30 yrs.
; and who is
now imprisoned
pursuant to such sentence.
3. The name and postoffice
address of the trial judge is Hon. L. S. Nelson ,
Duluth, Minn.
and the prosecuting attorney
is Mason M. Forbes, Esq.,
Duluth,
Minn.
4. Applicant’s full and true name is
Walter Max Mason
His age is 22
years and his birth-place was
Alabama
Father’s name
Deceased Nationality Afro
Amer.
Mother’s name
Deceased Nationality Afro
Amer.
5. I have never been known by any alias
except Sonnyboy.
6. I was never arrested, indicted or
convicted of any other offences except 30 day on work-farm –
Louisville,
Ky. – Fined $10.00 at Pinesville Ky. Alabama
State Prison for Larceny
7. Applicant’s
occupation and residence during the five years next before conviction of the
offense for which his is now
serving were as
follows: Employed as laborer and was with circus etc. Home at
Decatur, Ala.
8. Attach hereto either a transcript of the evidence
introduced at the trial or give a brief statement of the facts leading to
conviction of the crime for which you are
now serving.
Implicated with others (who were lynched in
Duluth) in ravishing a young woman in Duluth. Alleged to have held a gun on her
young man escort while the girl was
ravished.
9. Your petitioner asks that a Pardon or Comm.
be granted upon the grounds and for the reasons
following:
(Pardon or
Commutation)
That I am not guilty and know nothing about the
crime which is alleged to have been
committed.
Respectfully submitted,
Max Mason
Dated at
Stillwater this
18th day of
December , 1922
No. 5702
APPLICATION
For the of
Max Mason __
Filed on the 19th day of
December
, A. D. 1922
Bertha Wolff __
Clerk.