Killer Pardoned

WESTON, HOOVER

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 11/11/2012 at 19:59:29

Iowa State Bystander, February 12, 1897

Anamosa

Governor Drake has pardoned Henry Weston from the Anamosa Penitentiary. Weston was City Marshal of Bellevue and in arresting Hiram Hoover he shot and killed him. He got 18 months and has served about half the time.

Hiram Hoover grave
 

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