The Crowley Case -----Patrick Crowley serving a life sentence in the penitentiary for the murder of one Nichols in Virginia City many years ago was again denied a pardon by the Board of Pardons last week. There is hardly a schoolboy in Nevada who it not familiar with the facts of this case. Probably the most interesting part of the case it the fact that the Crowley case has out a great deal of material in politics. For the past ten or twelve years the vote of the Crowley faction has been held over the heads of the politicians; no one party escaped but the nominees of the different parties where they came in any connection with the case were considered and several defeats have been recorded on account of this peculiar case. Fortunately this sentiment is fast dying out and the time has passed when the Crowley case will be dragged into the political arena. Crowley seems to have more friends than any man who ever suffered the penalties of the law. His friends stayed by him for twelve years, and there has hardly passed a session of the Board of Pardons but that his case has not been before them Standing out in bold relief is a figure whose appearance before the Board is as regular as the tick of the clock that announces the time of the hearing of the case. She, for such it the figure, is a diminutive, frail little lady decked in mourning of the deepest black, the widow of the man whose body was thrown down a shaft to death, and who in her young motherhood was robbed of her only support and left with a family to battle with the world. She lived, it seemed, to revere the memory of the man whose name she bears, to haunt the living slayer of her husband and to see to it than Crowley dies in the garb of a felon. And so shall it be until the curtain falls on the last act this drama and a low mound indicates that Crowley is no more. The Lincoln Record Friday January 29, 1904