Wrongly convicted inmate is free today
LANSING (UPI)—An aged inmate wrongly convicted 30 years ago faced one more night behind prison bars Wednesday.
Frank Sawyer, 70, will be released today on a full pardon from Gov. Robert B, Docking.
An affidavit from Alvin Karpis, notorious gangster of the 1930's, set off an investigation that ultimately resulted in freedom for Sawyer.
Sawyer, a native of Durant, Okla., is serving a 20-100 year sentence for a bank holdup in Fort Scott, Kan., in 1932. Karpis, now living in Montreal, signed a sworn statement that he participated in the robbery but Sawyer did not.
Docking granted the pardon Wednesday on the recommendation of State Pardon Atty. Robert D. Ochs and the State Board of Probation and Parole.
The governor issued a statement that "based on the two recommendations, testimony gathered from eyewitnesses of the robbery, and an in depth investigation, Frank Sawyer is innocent of the crime he was convicted of in Kansas."
Formal papers calling for his release were sent to the State
Penitentiary. His release was scheduled for Thursday following a news conference in the warden's office.
Sawyer, who has a long criminal record, was convicted of the June 17, 1932, holdup at the Citizens National Bank at Fort Scott. Soon afterward he escaped and fled to Oklahoma, where he was
Lunar specimens delayed
A delay in the distribution of the lunar dust samples may push the receiving date for Edward Zeller, professor in geology to Sept. 22.
Zeller, who should have received his sample of lunar material by the end of this week, received word Wednesday that distribution has been halted. Forty of the 140 selected scientists have received their samples in the handout which began Sept 15.
Zeller said Washington did not specify reasons for the halt in distribution.
He said he "was pushing" because all sample recipients in the program must have their findings ready by Oct. 6 for the beginning of the Apollo 12 flight readiness program.
His planned experiments for radiation damage effects, as might be caused by the launch's retrorockets, will take two weeks.
Student appeals provision sought
A provision for student appeals to the Board of Regents was submitted to the Board by Chancellor Laurence E. Chalmers Jr. Wednesday.
The provision had been approved by the University Senate Committee on Tenure and Related Problems and the Student Senate Executive Committee.
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The provision, if accepted by the Board, would open the way for direct contact with the Board in cases involving academic freedom and tenure of instructors.
In other action at the Board meeting, Raymond Nichols, University executive secretary, said $389,000 that remains to be paid on a 1950 Kansas Union building bond is now available.
arrested and held to serve out a murder sentence. He was returned to Kansas in 1962.
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Ochs said Oklahoma still has Sawyer on parole for a murder conviction but Oklahoma officials indicated they would not take him back into custody.
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