Show I MAY HAVE LANDED IN LAKE OR FOREST Relief Expeditions to Search for Pilots and Aides of the Missing Balloons B loons St Et t Louis Louie Oct 21 Relief expeditions expeditions to search selCh for the pilots plots and aides of ot the four missing balloons Azurea Azure Dusseldorf IT n Germania and America II n which started In the in international international international race Nee here hare Monday Monda will willbe willbe willbe be started from Toronto Sunday Sunda If It no news Is ts received from the aero aeronauts aeronauts aeronauts before that time This announcement an announcement was made tonight by b officials officials of the Aero club of St Sto Louis The situation In reference to the 1 unreported balloons assumed umed a most I serious aspect aspe t tonight It Is la believed here herc that the men mon have landed some somewhere somewhere where In the wilds of Canada where they hey the may maO be the victims of ot starvation before succor can reach them The Aero club tonight called upon General J James mes Allen chief of the United States signal corps at Washington Wash Vash Washington ington IX D 1 C to have the revenue cutters the great lakes look for wreckage in Lake Huron Steam Steamship St Steamship am ship shin companies which have vessels plying p Lake Huron n and andu Georgian bay jay have been requested reque ted to Join inthe in inthe Inthe the search Canada Cult Will The Ontario government through its lieutenant governor J M Gibson tonight notified the club that it would assist in the search for tor the missing men Tien The Hudson Bay company also has replied favorably to a request for assistance sent from here today toda It was wag announced tonight that a representative of the Aero club woud be sent to Toronto to organize organise the re relief relief J lief expeditions The Germania H is I considered among the missing ml bal balloons balloons loons loone despite the fact that it has been reported from Pontiac county Quebec an and l other othel points It was so 80 reported Wednesday from Po Ontario but it afterwards developed that Alfred Le Blancs bal balloon balloon loon Isle de France was meant In the dispatches et etAll I All the balloons should have been down and reported by Wednesday edne day night according to the Aero club of I and the Ute fact that more than a hundred hours have elapsed since the I start of the race and the fact tact that neither Pilots Gericke Hawley Haw Hawley I ley or or their aids have I reported has given rise to grave grate ap apprehension apprehensIon apprehension for their safety af It was pointed out that the great greatest greatest greatest est danger is anticipated in the case ease of ot a balloon having hating descended de In I Georgian bay This stretch of water I contains more more than 3 islands inlands of I all sizes where the aeronauts might perish before relief could arrive I Quebec c Oct SI Word was Vas re received calved here tonight tont ht from one of the aeronauts of ot the balloon Germania that a landing was waa made at cash miles north of here Wed Wednesday Wednesday ed morning The crew of the Germania will lve l lt ave ve the nearest t point of transportation for Montreal tomorrow some were commuted n because of or ex fX exemplary exemplary h In the I latter class of cas cases s commutation was granted to stimulate other prisoners to reform and to hold out to them the hope of ot future clemency eem ney should their conduct merit m It t In still other cases the sentences were commuted because the ends of justice had hal been fully fUll sub served and the prisoners had fully atoned for the thi offenses s committed by them particular reasons why wh clemency was extended in any case are on file with the secretary of state and the documentary evidence submitted to the board is on file with the attorney general Both the reasons aforesaid and the evidence referred to may be inspected by any interested int relit d person p In Inthis Inthis Inthis this connection It should not be over oer overlooked overlooked looked that the newspapers published the action of the board of pardons at atthe atthe atthe the time that action was had In each case and It apparently did not occur to those who are conducting the news newspapers newspapers newspapers papers and who had full fult knowledge knowledg of the boards action that the action I taken in any particular case was not justified or that It il might be detrimental tal to the best interests of the people of the state of Utah Further of the whole number whose cases caJes were favorably acted act d upon thirty were recommended for clemency by the trial judges or by the district attorneys attorneys attorneys or by both In many maR Instances the county count attorney and the county of officials recommended clemency cl to say sa nothing of the numerous petitions that were submitted to the board boord by bO the leading citizens of the communities from whence the prisoners were sen sentenced sentenced sentenced Doubts of Guilt Gunt GuntIn In seven cases eases there were serious doubts of ot the guilt of the prisoner be because because cause the true facts were not known at the time of sentence Four cases were misdemeanors only on I and the be miti mitigating mitigating mitigating gating circumstances were very strong In four others the youth of the prison prisoners ers and their good character had a large it not a controlling influence upon the board Finally in n no case calie where clem clemency clemency clemency ency has bas been extended so far as known has the safety and been exposed by b rea reason reason reason son of the commutations or the pardons granted As a general rule where a commutation commutation commutation tation or pardon is s granted the board bOan can influence the prisoner to enter I some useful employment and in most instances this is done Where here how however however however ever the prisoner is discharged because I of ot the of his term the board has bas absolute absolutely no Influence over him and if such expiration happens in the winter the thc convict too often drifts right back to the criminal ranks There are a number now no in the state prison of the latter class while not one instance is recalled where those tholf of the first class mentioned were again sen sentenced sentenced sentenced to Imprisonment A copy COP of or this statement has been bren furnished to each of the dally daily dan papers of this city with request that the statement state statement statement ment be published A It R BARNES BAn ES Secretary State Slate Board of ot Pardons Salt Lake City it Utah October 21 I 1 1910 |