Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-02-20 | Page 32 | Reduce Sentences of Three Convicts

REDUCE SENTENCES OF THREEGONVICTS State Board of Pardons Grants Only Few Appeals for Clemency. DONALDSON WITHDRAWS REQUEST FOR COMMUTATION Many Applications Denied, and Others Continued to Fn-turc Fn-turc Meetings. The members of the stale hoard of pardons woro evidently in no merciful mood at the regular, nicotine of that body, held at, thn state prison Saturday. Satur-day. Of nineteen applications for official of-ficial clemency. Hie board granted only throe prisoners commutation of sentence. sen-tence. Several other applications woro continued. 2so pardons were granted. S. E. Daley, convicted of burglary in the third district court and sentenced November I J. 1007. to five years in the sl.ilo's prison, received a commutation commuta-tion of sentence, to lake place September Septem-ber 1, 1010, George .Parry, convicted of a slal.it-lory slal.it-lory offense in the third district court of Salt Lake county. and senleuced December De-cember 7, 1001, to ion years in the state's prison, received a commutation of sen I on co, to take effect iSeplember 1, 1010. The sentence of Xick Pruossiug, convicted con-victed of forgery in the third district court of Salt Lake county, was commuted, com-muted, lo take effect June I. .1010. lift was spntencod May 20. 1003; to Ihreo years in the fit ate prison. Applications and Disposition, Tho other applications acted upou by the hoard Saturday follows: For pardon J. "12. Dav. serving ono year for burglary in tho second degree, de-gree, denied; Charles Brown, six months in county jail for petit larceny, lar-ceny, denied; Alexander Bockstead, fine of if'50 for violating pure food law, deuicd; James Jcuseu, ono year for statutory offense, continued till Juno meeting; Robert Turner, four months in the county jail for petit larceny, denied; de-nied; George. Uubbell. ono .year for felon v, denied; Thomas Kreomnu, two years for forger', denied; Frank Iiall, ono year for attempted burglary, denied; de-nied; C. M. Seybolr, two years for forgery, continued to May meeting; Charles tDeakin. night oen months for grand larceny, denied. Donaldson Withdraws Request. For commutation of sentence Henry Watson, ten 3'ears for burglary, continued con-tinued two months; "Waller Jones, three vcars for obstructing railway property, denied; TJarvcy Bas and William Reese, thirty and forty years, respective, respec-tive, for murder in tho second degree, de-gree, continued to tho April meeting. Tho petitions for pardon of J. TL Winslow, serving time for a statutory offense, and Oharles Murdoch, serving ono year for forgery, were denied. J antes Donaldson, convicted of grand larceny in tho third district courl of Salt Lahn county for complicity in the MeWhirler robbery and sentenced January Jan-uary 29, 1009, to ten 3'ears in tho slate's prison, Saturday withdrew his application for commutation, of sentence.