| Show MAY SECURE PARDON friends of bacon believe he will succeed HE IS STILL IN washington f comptroller ds said to have elf expressed himself in A lo manner ranner favorable I 1 to bacon and other prominent I 1 M denare re assisting ill him at salt I 1 lake people will also render him valuable ald aid it if ho ha rails fails ho he will return to silt salt lake aake and B begin gin his terra term of 0 imprisonment I 1 fronds friends of 0 james 11 II bacon the ex banker who Is in under conviction for a violation loll of the nalin national nat banking laws while president of the american Ameil Amet can ican rational national bank in this city are quite confident I 1 trial lie will ai ill succeed in the efforts fo arta which he is ia putting forth to t 0 secure sefo a pardon p a adon mr bir bacon Is now in washington and 1 ft t il 14 said that some of the tot foi emort men 1 tn n the country nrc are rendering him every cat ry possible assistance one of the mot moat prominent Is charles char I 1 18 G dawes comptroller of the currency and member of the executive committee 0 of tin the national N republican I 1 committee it 1 is rot not claimed that sir mr dames will on ill sign bacans bacons petition for a baidon pa d 0 but lie he looked over the record in ill th case before the circuit court of appeals passed upon it ond and his hia declaration Is said to hive live been that it if the con i lettun stood alm almoite t every national banker would be to prosecution on similar grounds in addition to tho the influence that comptroller dawes rilay may beld nield bacon also lias has the support of several sevc ril united states senators aud a number of oc achl cago men mell vw vho aho are arc prominent in b business ne a political and finan clat circles iti N not a few prominent salt lake men will 1 1 Ilke iise ise be found in bacons bacans corner when th e ir assistance IH 14 needed the charges upon which billich tile the ax x banker waa convicted consisted in fit the main nf le porting notes for overdrafts oveid rafts among the assets which Is in in violation of the national banking liw law but which Is said to be bc frequently dune 1 me by ila ti nal hinks banks it t will by be contended contend pd by friends of dacon bere that the of the tle bank nf salt lake suc successor celsor to the american national bank wag lea the reil real cause if of his conviction and that chit the falc fal c atel n made of cie le COndi condidou doz of 11 the na nj U nat caused no iju injury to anybody should mr mor bacon fail in ill 1113 efforts 0 o bucure A pardon hla his friends say lie will n return tr fi utah litah aud abl enter upon his hl service rf or his seven beven year 1 penitentiary cn tence as imposed by judge mar blar haia the mandate of the court of appeals Ap pila Is s expected down within the th next two II 11 weeks riot as ao bonn IL as it is received the ox banker will aill be bard c led t to a aurien lei der himself to tile the united states filar blar ireal ahal |
