Show ARE ABE MAJORS IS GIVEN PAROLE Gains Freedom After 19 Years Years' Imprisonment for Iu i Murder iuler A 4 mothers mother's pleas prevailed ye yesterday with the state bO board lCd of pardons and brahan R R. Majors serving I a life term In the state penitentiary for fOl murder murder mur mur- der was as given ghen his freedom on parole On May 13 12 12 1809 1899 Majors Major was ordered I to o be shot for COl the murder o of Capt William Imam A. A Brown of ot the Ogden police the previous April 30 The supreme court ordered a new trial lie He was convicted convicted con con- on- on of second second degree murder and 1111 sentenced to life liCe Imprisonment Majors was wa 18 years rear old at the tho time Efforts in the tho past to secure the parole or pardon of at Majors have ha stirred up ip bitter blUer controversy ers Majors had backers In his plea of at Innocence but on the other hand there are many who still maintain that he murdered Brown Drown Brownn BrownIn In n cold blood Majors will be released this morn morning In For a month past Majors has been p permitted permitted per per- r- r to make freQuent visits to his mother Mrs Irs Lucinda Wagner 1 of oC Church street in company with Warden Warden Warden War War- den George A. A Storrs on account of his mothers mother's serious Illness Before she was as Uk taken n III ill she visited her eon son at athe atthe atthe the he penitentiary every month Her Tier pleadings s were largely instrumental In securing his parole He lie will be required to to report to the penitentiary rr at stated Intervals Inter By B Bythe the he terms of or the parole he will receive a pardon when his hlA good conduct In civil life liCe warrants It The past ten years he has hag been an nn exemplary prisoner records show Prior Prioro to o th that t. t time prison records show he was as one of the most moat unruly at tho the prison He is Ie now 36 years old His mother i Is 18 67 On April 30 30 1899 a peddler passed long along the road near Ogden Hot lIot Springs Cache Tacho count county Two boys stole f some ome Ice Ico co cream fruit and a pair of or shoes from rom the wagon agon while the pe peddler lIer was WiS engaged with a 0 customer A police posse headed b by b Captain Brown started att after r them They followed them Into the foothills foothills foot- foot hills and as the posse approached Brown held up hi his hand as a caution to 0 o the men following him A shot rang out and Brown crumpled up in the dust Just dustin JustIn In n the roadway The Tho two boys who proved to be the Majors brothers fled tied and md the posse gave Jave chase The elder Majors was Vas short hort and his brother Abe was found concealed behind a rock Majors always alwa's placed the responsibility responsibility responsibility for shooting Captain Brown with his brother |