Show NO j PARDON FR HIM t Grace Chesleys Mother Prevents Robert Boardmans Pardon t HER PLEA WAS DRAMATIC t PARDONING BOARD LISTENS AND IS CONTD Jk Dennison Implicated in the Saltair Burglar Secures Bern encyMercy Show to David Macky Who ltay Rave Been IocentFive Denis I But for the appearance and touching appeal of Mrs William Chesle the mother of Grace Chesler who was seduced se-duced by Robert Boardman jr there Is good reason to believe the board of pardons would yesterday have been In dined to liberate him from the state prison Grace is but little over 15 years of age and Boardman was convicted of the crime charged against him and sentenced on Feb I 188 to sere eighteen months in the penitentiary Several hundred citizens of Provo and other Utah county towns petitioned the board for a pardon claiming he had been sufficiently punished for the offense of-fense JUdge Dusenberr and County Attorney King recommended clemency II the latter urging that some mitigating I circumstances had arisen and new evl I dence favorable to the defendant had been discovered This evidence according ac-cording to the affidavits of Grace Fuller I and others onJfe tended toshow that one William Bailey was the author of Miss Chesleys ruin I was also alleged al-leged that the Fuller girl had been paid 50 for refraining from testifying at i the trial as to the admissions of Miss I Chesley who was said to have admitted I to Piles Fuller that BaIley was the man who had destroyed her Mrs Chesley waited until all this evidence had been presented and then arising asKed Have I the permission of the board to make a statement This being granted she continued Gentlemen of the board I am the mother of the unfortunate girl and am here to add an earnest protest to Boardman being shown any leniency He ruined my daughter as has been shown in a court of justice has been convicted and sentenced For destroying destroy-ing her entire life he has receive a sentence of eighteen months and now before the term has scarcely hal expired ex-pired a plea for mercy is made supplemented sup-plemented by a statement that the elds of justce have been satisfied made by the county attorney He can never pay the penalty for the wrong he has done LIy daughter gentlemen was scarcely 15 years of age when this man wronged her and placed upon her the brand of shame which will go with her until the end of her life He will come out of prison and be received among men as one who has done no real wrong while she will shrink from the finger of scorn through all the years I which are to come While there will be I those who will take him by the hand i and make him welcome those same people will avoid my poor little girl because he seduced her and blighted her life No act of his can restore to I her her honor nothing he can do will give her back her good name through life she will be compelled to listen to I the whisperings of scandal and the tongues of the malicious For her there is no board of pardons no clemency I the full measure of her punishment must be meted out and the years of I her term of miser are measured only I by the hours which are marked on the I dial of time until the moment comes when she shall pass from earth to another I an-other land Shall the author of this infamy the seducer of an innocent girl be turned loose before he has suffered I the punishment the law provides I trust not I hope he will be compelled to endure the full measure In order ai if rair I that when released he will retain the I recollection of the crime he has com mittl and be thus prevented from Invading in-vading the sanctity of other homes and accomplishing the destruction of other innocents Pirs Chesley spoke as though she had received inspiratIon On arising she intended making only a simple protest fearing that language would fail her but words failed her not The mothers plea at once became eloquent and her every manner was Intensely dramatic Governor Wells Chief Jus tce Zane Judge Miner Attorney General Gen-eral Bishop and nil who were in the audience were visibly affected The poor girl bowed down with the weight of woe was there too The scene was heartrending and nothing approaching it has ever before been witnessed at the pardon boards meetings The justice jus-tice of the mothers plea found impression I impres-sion on the board and Boardmans pe tton for clemency was denied TWO PARDONS GRANTED Because of newfound facts tending to show his innocence and because of hiS previous good character David lacla who was convicted of the crime of embezzlement and sentenced by Judge Hart to serve five years Imprisonment Im-prisonment from Dec 21 189 was granted a full and complete pardon Jack Dennison was made happy in securing a pardon Dennison was im plcated with Golden Brown in the burglar of Charles Auers saloon at Salair on Aug 6 and sentenced on Sept 9 to serve four months In the county jail on a charge of petit lar pony Brown was convicted of burg mary and Is serving three rears in the state prIson Clemency was extended to Dennison on account of the recommendation recom-mendation of Judge Norrel and the county attorney in consideration of his youth and previous good character and for the further reason that it was wa believed the ends of just e in his case had been sub served Denials of pardons were entered in the following case Harry Leslie sentenced by Judge Norrel on Feb 10 iSIS to two and one half years imprisonment for house I breaking Al Shaver convicted before Judge Norrel of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to one yeas service in the county jai on April 20 last Peter D Woolsey now serving two years from Dec 12891 on a conviction convIcton of adultery before JUdge DusenbeITY Brigham Spencer doing time in the state prison for two yea on a con Jcton In Judge McCartys court in I Garfield county of grand larceny com mitted prIor to Aug 28 1896 I A denial was also recorded agaInst the petition of Joseph Davis who was on Oct 17 sent by JUdge Timmony to the county jaIl for four months for petty larceny On their own request the hearings on the applications for pardons of William McCoy convicted of procuring an abortion and E A Bgley a forgery convict were postponed until next months meeting of the board |