NORGAR SEEKS PARDON: Fred Norgar, 36 years old, of 525 Surf street, Chicago, who was recently convicted in the St. Joseph county court at South Bend of involuntary manslaughter in the killing of an 8 year old girl when she was struck by his car in Mishawaka, asked the board for a pardon. As his commitment papers had not yet reached the prison, the board suggested that Norgar appeal to Gov. Harry G. Neslie. Norgar, accompanied by the president of the O'Connel & Co. municipal bonding house of Chicago, said that they would go to the capital Monday.
"I am intimately acquainted with eleven governors, know Gov. Emmerson of Illinois, and in my business of meeting state and city executives, can't afford to be an ex-convict," Mr. Norgar told the board members. He said he had settled with the family of the dead girl for $1,000, which he borrowed from his employer.
PRESENTS RECOMENDATIONS. Norgar had a sheaf of recommendations to present to the board, including one from Father John Cavanaugh of Notre Dame university, and others from Indiana and Illinois bankers and government officials in Washington, D.C. He said he had gone to Paris with Newton D. Baker.
"I'm broke," he said. "This accident has cost be (sic) $2000, and now my attorney, Floyd O. Jellison of South Bend, demands $500 cash before he files a bill of exceptions in my case."
[Chicago Tribune, April 26, 1930. -Sub by source #6]

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