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Show School needed p DEFECTIVES Jgl-atc of Idaho Requires Home Siffor Feeble-Minded and Other Unfortunates.. lOARD OF PARDONS 11 DISCUSSES MATTER 11 glen in Penitentiary Who 3iShould Not Be Confined in mm Such Institution. I Seclal to The Tribune. HBbOISE. Ida.. .April. .SUr-The llvud of HE state of Idaho of a school for fceble-Eided. fceble-Eided. the growing -demand for pardons iljE life termers nnd iho tragic In life powine the btrnleh" dfteti " falls heaviest fcwP' those who are related to the person IfBncerned, were all brought Into promi-llBhcc promi-llBhcc during the meeting of the board of JBrdons last week. There were many dis-rjKoIniments dis-rjKoIniments when the board refused to rilBnt Pa"dons but others were ,'Iven a iHafen of pleasure through pardon, parole KsWhope of favorable action on their eases BlMer. PiBrhe board made the somewhat startling VKpscovery that Herbcr DeLong, IS years laWfage, had been confined for four years Starving sentence for a statutory offense, aiBtnmlttcd when he was a minor and fcaBrdlv eligible to sen-ice in a criminal afctlt"utIonr His case was made the more ulBthetic through the fact Mint, until short time ago the prisoner had IKit from his mother tho fact ho was In Hson and she supposed he was employed HB&the southern part of the state as a 3Btm hand. DuLong was sent up from -jflpelley. The board cut his sentence down SflRelgiit years N Place for Feeble-Minded. pi-KvillIam Calvert, committed for horse ;?Beallng, was discovered by the board to DiiB feeble-mlnded. Idaho has no fceble"-SBjnded fceble"-SBjnded Institution and It was therefore toUBEcessary to send Iho young man to the iBnltentlary regardless of the fact that : VlMjvaH proven' he was Irresponsible. While '5Be board deplored the condition th-U (nf routed it thero appears no remedy I'xIBtUl the recent law passed by the leg-,0 leg-,0 Mature is curried inlo effect and the Vffcble-mindcd school locatetl at some VC'lBBnt twenty miles from Uolse. rouns '-Iverl served a term In the Oregon pen-IllBntlary pen-IllBntlary foi burglary His -case-was la--tti under advisement. '6Wrhe application of Julius C D. Pratt, ..IMhorse thief sent up from ilailey, for ' yPBjrdon waK (UnlmJ. The samo aotlon wos Hken with reference to the application "AjwClyde Shafer sent up from Suz Porte 'Ifltanty for murder. Harry Jiurger. surv-t surv-t sentence for grand larceny, was de-I de-I npd a Parole. mIBiNo less than three life termers asked yKipardons but their cases wcro contlu-jriBd. contlu-jriBd. Joseph Sorrow, at one time a pros--fous blacksmith of Grangevllle, Idaho $uty. was one of these men. He killed y nBohu table Williams and when sent to ?flson left a wife to support four chil-tjSJteu chil-tjSJteu by taking In washing. Tho ooard idded to cut his sentence to fifteen mfSt' Levy Case Postponed. Georgo Levy, a Frenchman, serving 9fKntencp for the brutal murder of David Yy In 1001, v.ajj 'before the board for rynaidcration but his case was postponed btgfhtil April 2-1. Thero Is strenuous opposition oppo-sition to his pardon duo to the fa'.t the .fflfcintc Is still fresh In the memory of Hliany He was tonvivtcd on olrciinisluu-i olrciinisluu-i M til evidence after one of the mjst sun-B sun-B ktional trials In the history of r;oisc. '9 'John McDowell, the traveling sales-B sales-B en wlio was convicted anl sentenced to 'B irvc the balance of his natural life In 5Tu ie penal Institution, after a noted trial i-6 sld at Cocur d'Alenc recently, was relived re-lived In silence at the penitentiary a w days ago. He protested bin Innocence ;ti declare.! later he expected to bo tali ta-li north for a new trial. The prisoner is photographed and taken to a cell iore he will be kept for several weoks f order that he may become accus-med accus-med tu a 1 If- of solitude, lie will be -.. it to work after that. |