Show FATHER OF 8 IS MADE FREE BY PARDONS BOARD Henry Davies Davics Serving Life Term fernl Sent Home HOlne to Children Eight motherless children will be mado made ha happy py this week when their I father Henry Davies sentenced on I May 21 n 1915 1916 to life Imprisonment willbo will willbo bo be released from the tho state Davies Davies' sentence was commuted ed b by tho board of pardons yesterday following a review of tho the Incidents which led lcd up to the death of or Arthur Davis a n former of of Davlos Davies shot and nd killed by the latter Davies les at tho the time timo of or tho the crime was proprietor of a plumbing establish establish- ment mont Entering his shop one afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon ho he walked up to Davis drew a revolver and shot the I him him instantly No 1 explanation for or the tho crimo crime was given A short time before tho the shooting Davies Davies' wife had died and h-er h husband hus hus- band banel became a It victim ot of the tho liquor habit lIea Heavy drinking soon resulted in in Il delirium and und the tho slaying followed He lie was declared to be bo mentally Irresponsible irresponsible Irre Irre- his Itis mind being deranged ed from grief over his wife's death Tho rho board of pardons acted on sixteen six six- teen tech other applications yesterday ten pt petitions for clemency clemenc were denied others others oth oth- one gt sentence was terminated two ers rs commuted one ono man paroled and andone one jonc case iise continued continue until the July mootIng mootIng moot moot- Ing of or the board Mike lIko Davich convicted con of second tle degree murder and sentenced to t l tr tl five years cars applied for tor commutation tion Uon an and received cd a reduced sentence of fifteen years Richard Merrill I sentenced son len to twenty years years' imprisonment for foz second degree burglary was denied donle do- do nied l p parole role It was vas shown that on May 24 I. 2 1917 ho escaped from tho tIm convict convict con- con vict t vamp tamp in Washington county and amI was re recaptured on tho the same day |