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Show Gov. Bamberger Issues Respite Pardoning Men Haddock Drothers Released From County Jail This Morning. Provo, Dor Sl.-Followlng whnt Is presumed b Sheriff J. T. Williams to .i!M rT'U r " ',lwi on ho Part of Kelr mother. Hen and Leo Hnddock. brothers, sentenced December 24 to servo a term or 90 days In tho county Jail for liaMiig Intoxicating liquor In their possesion, wore roleased from custody thiM morning by tho sheriff on nn order from Governor Unm-bergor. Unm-bergor. It wlll ho remomborod Hint tho two young men wcro arrested In Lehl last week at which trmo tho sheriff nnd IiIh doputios raided n distillery dis-tillery and confiscated tho contents thoreof, said to have been oporntcd by those .two mon. it Is further stated by tho ollicnrs to hnvo - been tho largest plant of Its kind yet nolzed by tho olllcers of this county. Wlion the two men wero taken boforo moB U. Tucker's court thoy guilty to tho chnrgo of having ..jxicutlng liquor In their possession, posses-sion, nnd wero sentenced to pay a flno of $200 or servo 90 days In tho county Jail, which amount they woro unnblo to furnish. It is undorstod bytlioso fnmlllnr with tho situation that tho Haddock bow oro at ono time employed by Govornor Uamborger, who appears to bo a close frlond of tho Haddock family. It Is stated, too, that both aro young married men of families and that their wives aro solely dependent de-pendent upon tholr enrnlngs for support It Is also stated that Mrs. Haddock, tho mothor of tho young mon. was under tho Impression thnt thoy wero hunting nnd trapping In tho hills west of Lehl during tho period that, they wero engaged In tho Illicit liquor traffic. Following is a copy of tho com-munlcntlon com-munlcntlon addressed to Shorlff J T. Wllllums, slgnod by the governor "You aro hereby notlllod that Ills Kxcellency, Simon Ilnmbcrger, gov ernor of tho stnto of Utah, lu exorcise exor-cise of his power to grant respites or reprieves In nil convictions or 1m-penchmciits 1m-penchmciits nccordlng to section 12, artlcld tf, of tho constitution of Utnh, does hereby respite nnd grant a resplto In tho enso of Don Haddock and Loo Hnddock, now confined In tho county Jnll of Utah couny, Provo, Utnh, and under your custody; cus-tody; said prisonors having boon sontonced to servo for 90 dnyH by Judgo Jnmos II. Tucker on Frldnv, Docombor 24, 1920, upon conviction of tho chnrgo of having liquor In their possession. "You nro notified that tho lenience len-ience of said prisonors Is suspondod until tho noxt sosslon of tho board of pardons, to-wlt: tho third Saturday Satur-day In January, 1921." Provo Post. |