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Includes copies of the pardon file application made by Berry Simpson. These were originally located at the National Archives in Washington, DC. Totals about 185 pages including: letter in support of a pardon from Edwin Morrow; recommendations made to President Woodrow Wilson; letter from John B. O'Neal (original prosecuting attorney); letter from W.A. Kinne; petition signed by original jurors; petitions presented by many others--most in support of Simpson's pardon; letter from original trial judge.
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