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December 1920, pardoned thirty convicted criminals, most notably:

Johnson, as Acting Governor on behalf of Governor Hobby, on December 14, 1920, issued a conditional pardon to Agnes Örner

(née Seastone – Swedish: Sjösten
(née Seabrook – Swedish: Sjöbäck
(née Seabury – Swedish: Sjösten

April 10, 1901: Death of Agnes's first husband, Frank Watrous (1875–1901) in San Francisco, 10 months, 1 week, and 2 days after the birth of their first daughter, Lillian Cordovia Watrous (1900–1911).
December 9, 1904: Mysterious death of her baby girl, Ethel C. Orner (1904–1904), – at 11 months and 2 days.
August 12, 1906: Mysterious death of her baby girl (1906–1906), – at 1 month, 3 weeks, and 3 days – while living in Globe, Arizona.
July 27, 1909: Mysterious death of her second husband, Alfred Ferdinand Orner (1875–1909) in El Paso.
March 26, 1910: Unexplained marriage in Los Angeles to Thomas Andrew Logan (1870–1952) while stay at the rooming house of Samatha Kelly (née Samatha Mullen; 1828–1922). They were married Kelly's rooming house at 417 S. Central Avenue, Los Angeles. Agnes had the marriage annulled July 10, 1910, in Denver.
August 13, 1910: Sudden unexpected death of Gustaf Albin Carlson (1873–1910) at the Carlson home near Bridgeport, Kansas, while Agnes was visiting.
February 18, 1911: Sudden unexpected death of her daughter, Lillian Orner (née Watrous), in El Paso.

born abt. 1876 Sweden), of El Paso, who was sentenced to prison for life February 4, 1916, for fatally poisoning her child, Lillie Cordovia Orner.^[1] Agnes was serving her sentence at the Goree State Farm for Women in Huntsville. Members of the Pardon Board included:^[2]

W.H. Knight, did not support the pardon
Fritz R. Smith, Chairman, supported the pardon

As a precedent for pardoning mothers convicted of killing their child, Ten years earlier, on August 20, 1910, in Oklahoma, Governor Haskell pardoned Lydia Howland who, with her mother, Mary Conery, as co-conspirator, had serving a 99-year sentence for 1st Degree Murder in Lincoln County. Howland and Conery were convicted April 1902 of poisoning an Howlands 18-month-old girl at a hotel in Stroud. The poison – according to the testimony of Chemistry Prof. Edwin De Barr, PhD (1859–1950), of Norman – "enough carbolic acid to kill twelve people." Howland always had maintained that the poisoning was accidental. Howell was paroled October 1909.^[3]

Incidentally, recently, in December 2017, the Norman City Council unanimously voted to rename DeBarr Avenue to Deans Row Avenue. The city manager said the street had its name for more than 100 years and honored Edwin DeBarr, a KKK grand wizard and former University of Oklahoma professor.^[4] His first of three wives, Harriet Amanda Bray (maiden; 1859–1896), died of poisoning, initially described as peritonitis. Edwin DeBarr died in an apparent suicide from carbon monoxide poisoning. However, the Robert Stieg Rose (1907–1962) was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering DeBarr. At the time of the murder, Rose was the ex-husband of one of Debarr's grandaughters, Frieda Ann Runge (maiden; born 1922).

De Barr

Bachelor of Science degree, Michigan Agricultural College, '91
Master of Science degree, Michigan Agricultural College, '93
Bachelor of Pedagogy degree, Michigan State Normal School, '91
Bachelor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, '92
taught, Almont, ·86-'90
professor of chemistry and physics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, '92-'95.

Notes and references

Notes

^ El Paso Morning Times, December 8, 1920, p. 5, col. 3.
^ Palestine Daily Herald, December 28, 1920, p. 2.
^ Fort Worth Record and Register, August 21, 1920, p. 6, col. 3 (bottom).
^ KOCO-TV News, January 4, 2018.

References

News media

"El Paso Mother Who Killed Child Receives Pardon". El Paso Morning Times. Vol. 41, no. 102. December 8, 1920. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |lay-date=, |lay-source=, |registration=, |lay-url=, and |nopp= (help)
"Woman is Pardoned". Fort Worth Record and Register. Vol. 14, no. 309. August 21, 1910 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |lay-date=, |lay-source=, |registration=, |lay-url=, and |nopp= (help)
"Controversial 'Debarr Avenue' Signs Replaced With New Ones in Norman". KOCO-TV News. Oklahoma City. January 4, 2018. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |lay-date=, |lay-source=, |registration=, |lay-url=, and |nopp= (help)
"Johnson Granted Pardons". Palestine Daily Herald. Vol. 19, no. 160. Palestine, Texas. December 28, 1920 – via Portal to Texas History. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |lay-date=, |lay-source=, |registration=, |lay-url=, and |nopp= (help)

[FOOTNOTE''El_Paso_Morning_Times,''_December_8,19205,_col._3-1] El Paso Morning Times, December 8, 1920, p. 5, col. 3.

[FOOTNOTE''Palestine_Daily_Herald,''_December_28,19202-2] Palestine Daily Herald, December 28, 1920, p. 2.

[FOOTNOTE''Fort_Worth_Record_and_Register,''_August_21,19206,_col._3_(bottom)-3] Fort Worth Record and Register, August 21, 1920, p. 6, col. 3 (bottom).

[FOOTNOTE''KOCO-TV_News,''_January_4,2018-4] KOCO-TV News, January 4, 2018.

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