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Show COLEMAN'S TERM TO EXPIRE IN FEBRUARY Idaho Board of Pardons Reconsiders A pplication for Leniency of Former For-mer Defaulting State Treasurer. Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 22. The state board of pardons today reconsidered the application of Fred M. Coleman, former defaulting deputy state treasurer, treas-urer, who confessed to the embezzlement embezzle-ment of $22,000 for which he is serving serv-ing time in the state penitentiary, and will release him in February. This was accomplished by fixing bis sentence at two and a half years. Coleman Cole-man was sentenced December 2ti, 1014, to from two and a half to ten years. By fixing his sentence to expire after serving the minimum be will serve but another month. Good time accounts for the minimum expiring then. The entire board refused to pardon either Coleman or Allen, defaulting treasurer, yesterday. Today it denied Allen a parole. Secretary of State Barker asked for a reconsideration of the Coleman case on the ground that he thought Coleman Cole-man was entitled to leniency for helping help-ing the state trace the falsified treasury treas-ury .book records so that it could recover re-cover the losses. He moved to fix the sentence and with Attorney General Peterson voted to do so. Governor Alexander voted against it. The Coleman confession two years ago created a state-wide sensation, as did that of Allen. The' board .also granted a pardon to Joseph Siciliano, sentenced from Ban- nock county for second degree murder to serve from thirty-five years to life. He started' service of sentence January Janu-ary 14, 1014. Siciliano murdered a fellow fel-low countryman in a restaurant at Pocatello. |