INDIAN IS PARDONED AFTER SERVING FIFTEEN YEARS.
Washington, D.C., July 15.-William Phillips, a Cherokee indian serving a life sentence for killing a fellow tribesman, has been given his freedom by president Wilson. Phillips, convicted October 14, 1902, at what was then Tahlequah, Indian territory, has served the equivalent of a 15 year sentence.
The president decided that the deed, committed at a dance at which liquor was said to have been freely dispensed, was done in self defence, or was at most second degree murder.
Source: El Paso Herald, El Paso, Texas, Tuesday, July 15, 1913; Pg. 4, Column 5
