Show MANY PARDONS ARE DENIED State Board Turns Down a Number Numbe r of Requests for Libera Liberation Liberation tion of Prisoners The state board of or pardons held Its Us It s monthly meeting yesterday and turned turne d down several applications for pardon parole and commutation Applications Application s for pardon were denied In the follow following followIng following ing cases eases J 3 W Gibson convicted of grand lar jar larceny larceny ceny In Salt Lake one year ago Chester A Bouton robbery convict convicted ed in Salt Lake one year ago this thi s month James H Clark convicted In Salt Sal t Lake of ot grand larceny In 1903 and sen sentenced sentenced sentenced to four years imprisonment Mrs Nellie Neme Smith convicted last las t February of 01 obtaining money money under unde r false pretenses The following applications ns for parole parol e were denied James T Daly convicted of felony felon y In Kane Xane county In May last year John H Hollman convicted of ot arson arso n In Utah county in 1903 Albert Keethler convicted of involuntary Involuntary involuntary manslaughter In Salt Lake last December The board commuted the sentence of Jesse F P McMillan who was convicted of murder In Salt Lake county In June 1898 1398 and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment Under the commutation commutation commutation tion McMillan will be he released April 29 1908 He will then have served a little less than ten years The following applications for com corn commutation commutation mutation were denied August A convicted of ot simple assault in Salt Lake county last No November November November vember Charles V V Watkins convicted ted of ot grand larceny In Carbon county last October The board paroled William L Sparks convicted of burglary In Salt Lake one year ago last January and stipulated stipulated stipulated that he should be under the care of a physician |