Show nOR Mi oy PARDONE t Physician Who Was Sent Up For Eight Years NEW EVIDENCE FOUND ADMISSIONS MADE BY THE PRINCIPAL WITNESS Sal4 He Did Not Believe McCoy Had Anything to Do4 With the Criminal Operation George Corry of Paro wan Also PardonedEd Daltona Peculiar Case Dr William McCoy was pardoned yesterday by the state board of pardons par-dons Dr McCoys case created a great deal of interest in the city at the time of the trial nearly three years ago He was found guilty of performing perform-ing n criminal operation upon a Miss Bonnett of Provo in February 1896 anxl in November o that year was sentenced tenced to eight years imprisonment In the penitentiary Miss Bonnett was a Provo woman and came nere from that place for the purpose of having an operation performed per-formed The evidence that Dr McCoy was convicted on was largely that of a man named Jesse Collins and at the sitting of the board of pardons yesterday yester-day affidavits were presented showing that Collins before the trial had stated his belief that McCoy had had nothing to do with the case On the trial he swore against McCoy Petitions signed by several hundred residents of Piute county where Dr McCoy lived prior to his removal to this city were also presented and on the showing made the board ordered his release W R Hutchlnson was Dr McCoys attorney GEORGE CORRY PARDONED The only other pardon granted was to George Corry convicted of burglary at Parowan Iron county and sentenced by Judge Hietrfus on Sept 20 1898 to one years imprisonment A letter from Judge Higgins expressing his belief that Car had not intended to commit a criminal act was presented and militated largely in Corrys favorED favor-ED DALTONS CASE A somewhat peculiar case was that of Wallace McNeil alias Ed Dalton McNeil was convicted of robbery at Provo in 1889 and sent to the penitentiary peniten-tiary for seven ears While he was in the penitentiary he was taken out and ned at Ogden on two charges of robbery and assaujt with a deadly weapon On the second charge he received re-ceived a two years sentence and on the first a eight years sentence The question before the board was whether the sentences did not run concurrently and the board decided that McNeils remedy lay by habeas corpus proceedings i proceed-ings so Ills application for pardon was withdrawn I Fourteen applications of prisoners whose cases depended upon the decision of the court on the copper act question ques-tion were withdrawn the matter havIng hav-ing been settled In the case of the state vs King recently decided A fine of 100 imposed upon John Jennings Jen-nings a prisoner In the Weber county jail for passln forged checks was re ipltted by the board The applcaton of J H Gill an embezzler em-bezzler and Harry Leslie a housebreaker I house-breaker were postponed for one month |