Young Taylor Paroled

The Pardon Board grants parole to W. L. Taylor, the son of True Reformer Reverend Dr. Wm. L. Taylor, shortening his sentence for “feloniously assaulting” a train conductor.

The Pardon Board has paroled young W. L. Taylor, son of Rev. Dr. Wm. L. Taylor of the True Reformers. He was sentenced to two years in the Virginia Penitentiary for feloniously assaulting a conductor on the N. & W. R. R. The distressing part of the affair was that young Taylor had been recently married.

“Young Taylor Paroled,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed May 17, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/348.