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Show FRED M. COLEMAN NOW AT LIBERTY Confessed Embezzler Is Released After Aft-er Having Served More Than Two Years In Prison. Special to The Tribune. BOISE. Idaho, Feb. 22. Fred M. Coleman is free. After having served a term of two years and two months in the Idaho penitentiary under a sentence of from two and a half to ten years for self-confessed embezzlement or $22,000 from the state treasury while he ffas deputy state treasurer, Coleman today left the prison walls behind him. The gates of the penitentiary swung outward to him by virtue of a decree of Judge McCarthy of tho district court, acting upon a writ of habeas corpus obtained on the ground that Coleman was being illegally detained because the former state pardon board had commuted his sentence to expire about ten days ago, notwithstanding the revocation of the order by the present pres-ent board. Coleman was deputy under former State Treasurer O. V. Allen, who confessed con-fessed to embezzlement and is still serving a sentence of five to ten years. Allen endeavored to obtain clemency from the former board, but foiled. When Allen was arrested Coleman was iu Portland, but returned at once to Boise. He was arrested at the railroad rail-road station here. On December 1, 1014, he entered the district court and, when first arraigned, entered a. plea of not guiltv. Later in the day he pleaded guiltv and asked to be sentenced at once, ilis actual commitment com-mitment was made on December 2(3, 1914, the delay being caused by the 1 pending treasury investigations, and he has served two years and two months of a sentence of from two and one-half . to ten years. |