Show THE BOARD OF PARDONS 1 r It Was an Unlucky Day For Convicts I NOT A SINGLE APPLICATION FOR CLEMENCY GRANTED Attorney M Mar ellus Nelson Makes an Ingenious PleaApplications For Sehearings Denied J 4 I It was a bad day for penitentiary convicts Every application for executive exec-utive clemency under consideration by the board of pardons was denied and I the applications for rehearing shared no better A few were postponed until the next meeting of the board ATTORNEY NELSON M Marcellus Nelson the erstwhile attorney who was convicted in this city for stealing a ladys watch and sentenced sen-tenced to serve a term of four years in the penitentiary sent in a lengthy application ap-plication for an absolute pardon Nelson Nel-son has been confined in the prison hospital hos-pital for some time suffering from a chronic stomach trouble He believes he has undergone sufficient mental and physical suffering and only desires to be given a chance to atone to wife and child for the sorrows caused and endeavor en-deavor honestly to build upon the shattered ruins of the past a better and happier future He closes his petition in the following words Mercy is the same thing as justice only it is more just Justice sees only the sin mercy sees the sinner To justice jus-tice the sin appears in a sort of inexorable inex-orable isolation to mercy the sinner appears surrounded by innocent beings he has a father mother a wife or a child who are condemned with him who undergo his penalty For him is imprisonment for them want and mir mi-r Have they merited punishment No Do they endure it Yes Mercy then finds justice injustice It interposes inter-poses and it pardons Forgiveness is the sublime rectification which the justice jus-tice of heaven makes of the justice of earth Nelsons eloquence was all in vain I i The petition was denied particularly as Judge Howat stated Nelson had been indicted time and again and that there was little hope of his leading a better life ORSON DALTON I Orson Dalton convicted of grand larceny lar-ceny at Loa November 10 1S9G and sentenced to a term of one iear applied I ap-plied for a pardon on the ground of previous good reputation Prosecuting Attorney Varf however in a letter I said Dalton was making a business of cattle stealing and belonged to an organized I or-ganized band of thieves The applica Ilion I-lion was therefore denied I 1 LAID OVER The application of George W Wilson s convicted in this city November 19 1895 and sent up for four years for an assault as-sault with intent to commit rape was laid over until the next regular meet meet I CONSIDERATION POSTPONED Charles Davenport whose true name I is Clinton C Clifton and who is serving serv-ing a CO years term for murder in the I second degree had an application in but a letter accompanied it asking that I action be postponed until the next meeting of the hoard This was done Davenport was convicted at PrO o a March 29 1S94 A W Griffing convicted at Ogden February 21 1S96 and sentenced to serve four years for forgery had his application postponed Action was also deferred on Albert Swigarts application for executive clemency Swigart is serving a 30 months sentence for burglary committed commit-ted in this city and was only convicted con-victed last September Swigarts pe cition is supplemented by a large num I ber of recommendations for a pardon I including a letter from Attorney Nye I who prosecuted the case stating that there had always been a doubt in his mind as to the convicted mans guilt I PROMPTLY DENIED William B Kennedy of Nephi serving i serv-ing a years term for adultery asked for a pardon on the plea that he wanted to go home and help support his family fam-ily Judge Higgins in a letter did not think a pardon would be in furtherance further-ance of justice and it was accordingly denied FOR REHEARINGS There were several applications for a rehearing but all were denied The I following is a list Frank De Camp sentenced at Ogden October 13 1894 to 12 years for attempted murder Samuel Sam-uel W Mulberry convicted at Provo February 25 1891 of murder in the second sec-ond degree and sentenced to 20 years George Hartley sent up from Provo March 1 1895 to serve three years for an attempt to commit rape Robert Thomas Adams convicted at Ogden October 25 1893 and serving a term of ten years for rape Charles Gen I row sentenced November 13 189G at Nephi to six months for fornication The latter thinks he is not only entitled en-titled to a rehearing but thinks he is entitled to a pardon on the grounds that he has at all times stood ready to marry the injured girl |