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"Parole for Gallo," Kingston Whig-Standard. May 22, 1976. Page 3. --- OTTAWA (CP) - Habitual criminal Luigi Gallo, 74, was granted another parole Friday by the national parole board on grounds of ill health.

Gallo, in and out of jail since the early 1940s, was declared a habitual criminal in 1953, meaning a mandatory life sentence.

But he was granted parole in 1965 and then sent back in 1967 on grounds of association with criminals. Parole again in 1968, he was returned to prison in 1974.

A parole board spokesman said the Friday decision was taken after considering Gallo's ill health including numbness in both legs and partial blindness.

The parole is contingent upon his leaving the Kingston area, where he has been serving time in a minimum security prison, and not associating with criminals.

In Toronto, lawyer Clayton Ruby, who began campaigning in 1975 for Gallo's release, said that "it's been a long struggle and it's a tribute to the inmates of Joyceville penitentiary and Collins Bay penitentiary, who almost to a man signed petitions to Warren Allmand asking that Mr. Gallo be given priority over them for parole."

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"Two Communists Being Released," Ottawa Journal. June 29, 1934. Page 2. --- Carr and Popovitch Are Coming Out of Prison on Parole. ---- Two of the seven Communists remaining in Kingston Penitentiary will be allowed their freedom on ticket-of-leave, Hon. Hugh Guthrie, Minister of Justice, announced today. They are Sam Carr and Matthew Popovich, both of whom have served half their original sentence with behaviour meriting their release. They will be allowed to serve the remainder of their sentences outside the penitentiary, re- porting to the authorities at regular intervals.

The remaining five will be considered for ticket-of-leave on the same basis as other prisoners of a similar status, the minister said. Rev. A. E. Smith, general secretary of the Canadian Labor Defence League, with a number of wives of the convicted Communists, waited upon the minister today and learned of his intention of releasing the two men.

Mr. Smith said he believed the two would accept their freedom as they were in bad health. Ordinarily, however, it would be the desire of the entire party to hold out for complete pardon.

Those remaining in the penitentiary are Tim Buck, John Boychuk, Tom Hill, Malcolm Bruce and Tom Ewing. They started their sentences in Feb., 1932, and will be eligible for parole in August, after serving half their sentences.

There were eight in the party when the convictions were secured in Nov., 1931. of charges of belonging to an illegal assembly. Sam Behan died suddenly of a heart attack last May.

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"One can hardly realize what it meant to Peter Derose to be paroled from Kingston penitentiary this week. He had been behind prison walls for 27 years and had never seen an electric car nor an automobile until released. Derose had been serving a life sentence for murder. It was commuted to 40 years. The governor-general only consented to liberate Derose on condition that some responsible party could give him a home and shelter. The only one that responded was the Salvation Army, which sent Major Fraser to take charge of the prisoner, who is 75 years old and must make parole reports for the unexpired term of the commuted sentence." - from the Windsor Record. December 3, 1913. Page 4.

[Derose had been in prison since the 1880s, and was convict #X-137. There was, according to a report of the Kingston Penitentiary warden in February 1912, "a pile of correspondence" about this man's case, and he wrote a letter asking for release that month. The warden felt that, as the prisoner had "been faithful to every trust placed in him" and in good spirits despite his term, he should be paroled provided care could be found for the elderly man.]

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"RELEASED ON PAROLE," Edmonton Bulletin. April 1, 1910. Page 3. ---- Jack Otto, the young Jap convict at the Edmonton penitentiary, who gave the alarm to the guards when Guard Dharty was attacked by another convict some weeks ago, has been rewarded for his faithfulness by being released on parole. Otto was sent up from Calgary to serve a two years term for theft and had put in about a year of his sentence. He has been a model prisoner and would in all probability, in any case, have been let out before the expiration of his term.

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"Labatt Kidnapper Paroled at Kingston," Ottawa Journal. December 23, 1942. Page 12. ---- KINGSTON, Ont., Dec. 23 - (CP) -Jack Bannon, convicted in 1935 in connection with the kidnapping of John Labatt, London, brewery president, was released from Kingston penitentiary yesterday with a group of other prisoners, it was learned here today. Labatt was kidnapped Aug. 14. 1934, and the following year Bannon was sentenced to 15 years in penitentiary following his conviction. Two other men were convicted and sentenced in connection with the kidnapping, Michael McCardell to 12 years, and Russell Knowles, of Detroit, to 15. Another man, Albert Pegram. was sought by police in connection with the case, but never was arrested.

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"RELEASED AND ENLISTS," Toronto Globe. May 27, 1918. Page 7. ---- Ex-Chief Malone of Simcoe Freed; Is Boer War Veteran. --- (Special Despatch to The Globe.) Simcoe, May 20.--A. W. Malone, ex-Chief of Police, was in December, 1908, arrested charged with shooting with intent to kill his night officer, and In February, 1909, after due trial, was sentenced to imprisonment for life, was, on the 23rd instant, released from Portsmouth Penitentiary. He at once enlisted for service overseas. He owes his freedom largely to the single-handed efforts and representations of his former Solicitor, W. E. Kelly, K.C., at Simcoe. Malone served under General French in the Boer War.

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“TWO BROKERS ARE NOW FREE,” Kingston Whig-Standard. June 9, 1932. Page 1. --- Shutt and Hepplestone Released From Collins Bay Penitentiary ----- TORONTO June 9 — W. T. A. Shutt and James Hepplestone, members of the former brokerage firm of W. A. Moysey and Company here, are no longer in custody at Collins Bay penitentiary, according to the Financial Post.

Shutt and Hepplestone were sentenced to two and a half years and three years  respectively in penitentiary in October 1930, when they pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charges brought against a number of prominent brokers at that time. They were the only brokers who did not fight the case through the courts and had thus served four or five months when the others lost their appeals. 

Release of the men was discovered by litigants who are suing the Moysev Company, Shutt and Hepplestone in the civil courts and were anxious to have them produced to give evidence. They applied to prison authorities, who are said to have announced the release.

OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION OTTAWA, June 9 — Official confirmation was made here today of the report that W. T. A. Shutt and James Hepplestone, members of the former brokerage firm of W. A. Moysey and Company, have been released from penitentiary.

The two brokers had served more than half their terms of incarceration. An application for clemency was made and granted. The official practice is not to make any statement on the release of men who are released from custody following the serving of time in custody.

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“Parole Violator Goes Back to Jail” Border Cities Star. April 30, 1932. Page 9. ---- Alex Burgoine. 29, giving his address as 875 Dufferin Place, was arrested late yesterday afternoon by Detectives Maxwell and Campbell as a parole violator. He had been released from Burwash recently and failed to report as stipulated. He is to be returned to the reformatory to serve his unexpired term.