Show HURS fOR Board Paroles One Prisoner and Commutes Sentence of Another THREE REQUESTS DENIED REMAINDER OF CASES POST POSTPONED POSTPONED ONE MONTH The slate ate board of pardon met at the tho penitentiary and paroled one prisoner and commuted ono one sentence Most of ot the cases casee considered were con continued continued until the next meeting Charles Lade was the man paroled He Was vas convicted and sentenced Dec 18 l J in Salt Lake county to ten years ears for tor robbery With good time allowance his Ills will expire in the fall fail and he was paroled until that thet time Hirsch was the man who had las hii hi sentence commuted He was waa given fifteen months by b Judge Booth of the Fourth district for embezzlement was Va sentenced Sept SeIt 16 1907 The board reduced his sentence to one year which will give ghe him his hia freedom in July with good time allowance Played Too Much Poker Hirsch comes from froni county and Lad hid been blEn playing poker extensively pre pm previous ious to his arrest Ho was out 3 30 and andIn In n order to pay the debt helped himself to the money mone in his employers till Judge Booth favored a pardon but District At Attorney Attorney torney Houtz opposed it and the board finally decided to compromise by commuting commutIng ing the sentence One of the cases which came lame before the board and was continued was that of or Mary 1 a r Jane Jam Smith colored who In 1903 was convicted of poisoning a man in a resort on Victoria alley and was given twenty y years ars for manslaughter The dis district district district attorney is favorable to a parole Cases Continued Other cases continued were George W y V Long Ions sentenced to twenty years ears eam In 1 1902 H from Sevier Se ler county count fort foras for as al assault sault Hault with Intent to commit murder Samuel Grice Griec sentenced Aug 8 1905 1906 by b Judges Judge Armstrong to twelve years ears for burglary burglar George Peterson sentenced in the Mil Mi Millard Millard Milard lard county jail on April 10 for a statutory offense Willard O 0 Gentry sentenced ced April 6 to thirty years ears on two counts for robbery Convicted in Salt Lake county James Larson convicted in Sanpete county and sentenced Sept 13 1 1607 1001 to three years ears for perjury perjur Application Denied The following applications application for pardon were denied Frank Greig sentenced June 12 I 1 1607 1007 by Judge Armstrong to eighteen months for burglary In the second degree Dis District District Attorney Loofbourow opposed the application P j M 1 Robertson convicted in Salt Lake count and sentenced to six months rn in inIC tio 11 IC county jail on Dee Dec 6 1307 1007 bv by b Judge Jude Armstrong for petit larceny laroen The Th dis district attorney also opposed this application tion for clemency clemenc C H convicted of forgery in Weber eber county and sentenced by Judge Howell on Nov No 6 1907 to one year ear Judge Ho Howell well favored a pardon in this case but I the board did not see it that way wa |