FORD HENRY Typed Letter Signed to Vice President John Marsha

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ASKING THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR A PARDON FORD, HENRY. Typed Letter Signed, to Vice President John Marshall, asking for a pardon for one of his employees, who was employed during his parole and whose vindictive mother-in-law wanted him rearrested for breaking parole. 1 1/2 pages, small 4to, "Henry Ford Detroit" stationery; scattered minor soiling, horizontal folds. Detroit, 11 February 1915

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". . . Believing that his parole had expired, he left Indiana to better himself in Ohio and from there he came to Detroit to join our forces. . . . He has risen rapidly in our organization and we think a great deal of him. . . . Thru [sic] the instrumentality of his mother-in-law who is of a vindictive nature, the State of Indiana recently asked for his arrest on the technical charge of breaking parole. . . . He returns to us today, on parole, and I am sorry to say that the treatment accorded him was not that which we understood he would receive at the time he left us. . . ."