Governor Hoey,
Turning Down Agitator’s Request Now, Expected to Act Before 1941
Raleigh, Aug. 8—(AP)—It was understood here today that
Governor Hoey either would parole Fred Erwin Beal or shorten his sentence
before January, 1941, when the governor will go out of office.
He declined today to pardon or parole Beal, a former
Communist labor organizer who is serving 17 to 20 years in prison for
conspiracy in the fatal shooting of a police chief at Gastonia during the 1929
textile strike. Beal has served 1 year, 10 months and 25 days of the
sentence.
The governor, then a practicing attorney, aided in the
prosecution at the trial, after which Beal posted bond and fled to Russia. He
returned to this country and was put in prison Feb. 16, 1938. A hearing on his clemency petition was held June 8.
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