Show PABDON BOARD BUSY I J 1 i Record Broken With Eight i f eeh l Cases Considered I i t MTARLAND AND GEORGE OUT i I < Two Life Prisoners Given Parole i t Pa-role by Board I Math Noted Prisoners Ono Being Iin I ti plicated in 1 Caughlau Cose I o Bothas Csc Continued I r L J J The 1 Stale Coarc or Pardons did tho j 1 I 1iggcst dnxq business yesterday that U has trnrznctcd since the luaug urfiloi or the board Out oC eighteen oagew > which It considered six pardons were srnntcti and sx denied two paroles were granted nnd four cases 1 continued 1111 the next meeting of theM the-M board ftlrlchwJll be on Saturday the 17th of January Chief Justice Minor took hI place on the board for the llrst time lrt muuy u i day 110 Two whowore paroled were Par Ian MclTaland and Fred George both lifers I > convicted of murdCl In the second degree r MFARLANDS CASE iIcFarlnril vns EoiUcriced on April 2i 1S90 He wis Convicted oC having shot to depth two mon called Goldlnr and fnnsC1 In a saloon fight l in Mantf Snnpetc county His petition for a parole pa-role was presented to the board yester day by Attorney Ray Van Ci > tt who t endeavored to show that at the time McFarland did the killing he was In Imminent danger and J > great bodily Tear JTc also laid emphasis on the fact that prior and up to that time Mc Ifnrlnnrt had been In the hablr of drink i i inn as much ns a pint and a half of alCohol al-Cohol < a day and that as a coriHequencc hev could not be held responsible for his notion FORMER PHYSICIAN He drew attention to the splendid record that Parian McFarland had borne ns a physician and the many lives that he hrd saved principally oases of diphtheria and also that the prisoner had < 1 testified that he wns under such a severe strain that he was compelled com-pelled to drink the alcohol to keen I him up One of the Juros who had convicted con-victed MeFirlam the only one who l could be found alo testified before tho board that there had always been an element of doubt an to the Intention of McFarland Apostle John Henry Smith also said that lit had been requested to make an appeal to the board on be half of the convicted man who he con sidered had already been amply pun ished and who on account I of the pre vious good record he had borne ws a tit subject for the clemency of the board STRONG PLEA He had already sorted almost thirteen thir-teen years and the judge who sen tonccl him the district attorney who prosecuted him and he best citizens oC the suite In which he had lived and of adjoining coimticn had alined petition pe-tition In which they claimed that tho hilling of GolcInsj and IIan < en wan done In selfdefense All the Jurors who hud convicted him had alo signed n petition asking for the pardon of tho convicted J con man t VrAS WITH COUGH U Fred Caorpi the other nan who was paroled by the board ycsterdawas j afro serving a life sentence for murder mur-der In the second decree Ho was sentenced sen-tenced t on November 2 IKK from Tooele county He and coughlnn wcr < i cpn Meltod 1 1 of the killing of Slnsg Cough = Ian suffered the den M penalty for his part In the transaction GIVEN PAPONS Of those who received their freedom 1 at the hurls of the board yoslcrd J R Hlckmnn was sentenced on July loth to a year I for burglar E IL Schultz was sentenced to live ninths In the county pall for assault and had served three i George A Bevies was doing n year from July 17th for grand larceny I there was grave doubt as to his I I rrult I Carl Adomson had already scrvrtl nine months for petit larceny he was only sentenced to six Indian Joe was clolnjr five years for manslaughter having hav-ing commenced his term on October 1100 The judge whosentenced him rcconinicrdn hs pardon also a large number of citizens who sly fed a petition peti-tion It Is I also I shown that there was a defect in the complaint in that It was I signed by the district attorney which Is contrary to law under the ruling in the redo case The last pardon granted grant-ed was to Thomas P Str tham convicted con-victed of assault The jurlsc and district dis-trict attorney rcconnicmed the pardon Stratham having served the greater portion of his time UNLUCKY ONES Pardons wore l dented Jn the following canes Joseph Williams burglary three years John De France grand larceny lar-ceny two yearsJohn P Allred crand larceny two years Thomas J Williams Wil-liams branding a horse not his own George Beck obtaining money under false pretenses one year Walter Gccr assault and battery 5130 at the rate orS or-S 2 a day commutation dejlcd BOTH AS CASE CONTINUED The following cases were continued for one month C L Maxwell rob bery Clifton Draper assault with in lent to commit rape on u 10yearold girl James J Marks housebreaking Charles Botha murder In the first degree de-gree |