PAROLED SIX
MONTHS, FACT
KEPT SECRET
Rev. J. T. Terry, Serving Life
Term For Murder, Practical
ly Free Despite No Action
By State Pardon Board
EXTENSIONS OF LIBERTY
GIVEN UPON EXPIRATION
Investigation Of Reports To
Montgomery From Outside
Leads To Discovery Of How
Minister Escaping Penalty
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU J
i THF AGE-HERAL1) i
Montgomery, AlaM Jan. 11 J
Rev. J. T. Terry. Methodist minister
of Grove Oak, sentenced to life im
prisonment for first degree murder
from Franklin county in 1918 has been
at liberty since July 30, 1923, on a
parole granted by Governor William
W. Brandon, it was learned for the
first time today. Terry has secured
his liberty through the medium of
"temporary” paroles, granted by the
governor for from 30 to 60 dayB, and
repeatedly extended, so that a total
of more than five months already has
been granted to Rev. Terry, who still
is at liberty. By the granting ot
temporary paroles in this manner, the
case was not brought tefore the par
don board for consideration, and no
publicity was given to it. This was
in accordance with the usuaI custom,
as the p^ess has in the past not been
interested in temporary paroles, usu
ally granted for from ten days up
to allow convicts to visit their rela
tives in case of sickness, at holidays,
or for other causes. Consequently,
it was not until today, inVAfttt*
gstion of a report from outside source,
that it was learned the Rev. Terry
had been on parole since midsummer
of 1923.
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Letters Urge (leniency.
A number of letters were found in
the record urging clemency for Rev.
