Salt Lake Herald | 1908-01-19 | Page 30 | Innocent Man Granted Pardon

INNOCENT MAN PARDON Joso Basich Released From i Penitentiary Where He Has Served 29 Months I RESULT OF BINGHAM RIOT SHOWN THAT PRISONER WAS NOT GUILTY GUlL TV After having served nearly twenty twentynine nine thio months mouths in the penitentiary for a crime of ot which he h was not Joao JOSG was yesterday pardoned by hy the state board of ot pardons In company with several other Austrian was convicted of ot being Implicated ca i In a riot at In which I Deput Sheriff Lafayette Chidister was wa seriously 19 wounded He was sentenced to years in the penitentiary on Sapt pt 1 1905 19 5 The story which was substantiated yesterday was 39 that when the riot oc occurred Occurred Basich was not In the neighbor neighborhood hood but hearing bearing the Ule shooting went to toa toa toa a mine superintendent and reported it Then meeting another Austrian he was warned varned that he ho would better get out of town as he would be bo suspected He went to Kaysville where he was arrest arrested arrested ed td Parley P Christensen the county at attorney attorney attorney torney who prosecuted Basich appeared for him at the session lon of ot the board The Austrian was released last even evening ins ing and went to Garfield where he has secured employment John Toab a Do Ute Indian sent up for forone forone forone one year from Washington county last September was also pardoned Toab was convicted of ot horse stealing He is over SO 80 years of ot age The case of ot Samuel E Doman charged ed with a 0 statutory offense was con continued continued continued He was sentenced sentence j from Davis county in July 1906 to fifteen years The petition of Henry M Hawley sentenced for burglary and grand lar larceny larceny ceny cony from tram Salt Lake county In October 1906 2906 to six nix si years was denied James K It Castle alias Morris Dan Daniel iel lel sentenced to the county jail for six st months for obtaining money under false tolse pretenses had his case con continued continued continued thirty days The board denied a parole to James Larson convicted of perjury Sept 13 1907 in the Seventh district and sen sea sentenced ten ed to three years The case of ot James Iames Overson sent up for five years for grand larceny was continued one month