Petition for Naturalization of Ferro

JOHN W. MURPHY, Chief Judge.

Patsy Ferro seeks naturalization under § 311 of the Nationality Act of 1940, 54 Stat. 1145, 8 U.S.C.A. § 711 (1940 ed.), now 8 U.S.C.A. § 1430(a). 1 As Patsy Fierra he was on August 27, 1924, while a fugitive from justice, indicted in a Pennsylvania state court for murder. Later apprehended he was on September 13, 1928, found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to “separate and solitary confinement at labor” for not less than ten nor more than twenty years. He was paroled after seven years and finally discharged from parole on September 18, 1948,…