Raleigh, May 15—His father dying and as the minutes ticked away, the bars of the state prison staring him in the face! Must he return to the cold, steel walls before his father breathed his last?
This was the question confronting J.L. Daniel of Guilford county, who received a 30-day parole on April 13th to visit his father, who was at the point of death. It expired at midnight Thursday and his father was breathing his last!
But yesterday Gov. A.W McLean extended the parole for 20 days more so that the sun might not suffer the more poignant pain of being forced to return to prison while his father breathed his last. Justice is tempered with mercy.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, May 15, 1926
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