| Show PARDON OF MURDERERS 4 Hope Long Deferred Rewards Two Prison Convicts + HARRY lA YES INNQCEN i + I AILA A 3IUBDOCX AlD CHAS CIm l FORTUAT ONS t NwlyDiscbvredridence of Jut icton God Conduct In Prison and Weight Rtcom endaton I Prompt the oa of Pardons t Grant Clemency to Life Convicts I + Two life convicts were made hropy beyond eXDresslon yesterday by the ord ponderous prIson gates swJuging outward out-ward for their freedom and to commence com-mence life anew The tvo men who fe cured their liberty through te clemency clem-ency of the state d of prirdons were Ama A Murdock tpe young halfbreAd India who was reared in Heber City and Charles r Clfon otherwise known as Davenport a former resident of Moab The latet is nov in his fifty sixth year In both these cases it was made to appear to the sat f ction of the pardoning board that newly discovered discov-ered evidence te dM to show that the convicts committed the murders for which they were sentenced under extreme reme prvocaton and in selfdefense The crime for which Alma A Mur dock was sentenced to lf imarson rnentwasthe killing of rnest Olds at I ManU in July hill At the trial it WS claimed by the nAcured that the shooting I shoot-ing wab done in selfdeLense the deceased de-ceased having reocatedjy threatened his life New evidence teHIed to strongly corroborate ths plea I was shown also to the bard of pardons that Olds was of aquarrelsome disposition whIle Murdocks roniiiet was beyond reproach re-proach prior tc the tragedy and hat his behavior in rison was that of an bbedient a1d exemplary convict For these reasons and because of the fact that his applctol for release was endorsed en-dorsed by the pros tuting officials ana I the jury and prayed for by leading citizens ofSanpet and Vaatch counties I coun-ties the board granted Mu dock s pardon Recently develpd testimony in CUt tons case showed that John Woods whom he shot and lied at 1oab on Jan 9 1894 was n dangerous charc ter and that the killing wasin the nature na-ture of justifiable homicide Clifton Idl d anotherm durins the time the I RioGradeWester raiway was building build-ing westward from Grand Junction but the victim in this case vas also a desperado des-perado At the time of the tragedy in 1foab Clifton was over II yearsof age and had he been compelled to serve out his full sentence of thirty years he would have approached the age of fourscore four-score years before pRying the penalty Clfons conduct In prison has been eX em DIar and beC3me of this and the newfound facts and the belie that l1e has been sufficiently punished his welt recommended nettm for a complete pardon was granted HARRY HAYES ASKS A PARDO The Detton of Harry Hay s for a pardOn was set down tr hearing on April 15 Hayes was cOlviated of the murder of three boys at Peflcan Point on Apri 1 three yeas ago and sentenced sen-tenced to death but afterwards the sentence was commuted to life imuris I onment Proof will be ofered at the hearing to substantiate the allegation thatone George H Wright now a flg tire from justice and whom Sherff Strrs is pursuin committed the crime Hayes declare in all solemnity that h is innocent of the crim for which he was convicted crme Hearing on the petion of William McCoy serving a sentence of light years from Nov 21 1896 for rocuring a fatalabortion upon a Provo girl was postponed until the next meeting of the board Acton was als deferred on the application for a pardon for larrie Leslie who wa convicted of baum breaking on Oct 21 1897 and sentence to imprisonment for two and a half year Leslie expects to secure employment employ-ment at the Tro launry as soon as lie is liberated from the penietary Denials were entered against the 1e ttons for pardons of Robert A Atwood At-wood and John Missoula Atwold was sentenced on April 1 Jrist to Fix years servitude for grad larceny committed in Uintah county and 1Issoula was sent UD for a like period on Nov 1 1895 for robbery committed in this city |
