H-600 Kingston Penitentiary Ackn’d. November 7th, 1929 Date: October 30, 1929 [stamp of the KINGSTON PENITENTIARY-CENSOR No. 1 - NOV. 5, 1929] [stamp of the DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE-REMISSION BRANCH-NOV. 6, 1929] Honourable Minister of Justice Dear Sir, I come to appeel to your kindness in order to request a pardon At present, I have served nine years and one month since my sentence was changed but I wil have been locked up ten years next February I promise you that I will appreciate the pardon I wil receive even if it be for the rest of my life. If I am released soon, there are two or three diffrent places here in Kingston where I can go I can do any kind of work and I wil do it willingly because I want to make monney for the future. Since I have been here no reports have been made against me and I have always done everything that it has been my duty to do Dear Sir with the good reccomendation of Mademoiselle Robinson, and also of our Warden, and considering my good behaviour during such long yeers, may I be pardoned. And with a great thank you once again, I will appreciate it. I am Your humble M.-A. Houde Source: ANC, , RG 13, Box 1507, File Houde Marie-Anne, vol. 1, part. 1, Marie-Anne Houde, Lettre de Marie-Anne Houde au Ministre de la Justice, October 30, 1929, 1.
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