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Show GIVEN FULL PARDON AS CHRISTMAS PRESENT PORTLAND, Ore.. Dct 25. J. Thor-burn Thor-burn Rons, president, of the Title Guarantee Guar-antee Trust company, which failed In Portland In 1007, who was convicted In the state courts in 100S of misappropriating misappro-priating state funds deposited In his bank and sentenced to the penitentiary. peniten-tiary. wn.j today given a. full pardon by Governor West. Ross was tried on a change of venue in Salem and In addition addi-tion to his prison sentence was given a lino double the amount of tho state funds Involved. This part of the sentence sen-tence was set aside bv tho supromo courL on appeal. - Ho then appealed to the supreme court of tho United States, but that tribunal refused to consider the case, no constitutional question bolng involved. Last June, Judge Keliev of the circuit court paroled rtoss on a. showing that all moneys lost in the bank failure had been made good to depositors. depos-itors. Ross lives In Portland. |