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Show BOARD OF PARDONS HEUIS 104 CMS 30 Prisoners Receive Favorable Fa-vorable Action; Murder Pleas Are Denied. Thirty prisoners at the state penitentiary peni-tentiary were the recipients yesterday of Christmas gifts at the hands of the state board of pardons. Of these, seven were given paroles, one sentence was commuted commut-ed and twenty-two had their sentences terminated at once or in the immediate future. A total of 104 cases were considered con-sidered by the board, the largest number num-ber ever submitted in the history of the board. Several cases which have attracted at-tracted considerable attention were denied, de-nied, and that of Abdul Ali, serving a sentence for murder, and for whose crime another man is said to have confessed, was continued until the January meeting meet-ing of the board. Similar action was taken in the case of A. A. (Abe) Majors. The cases of Jeremiah Woodward, involuntary in-voluntary manslaughter; Mike Morris, voluntary manslaughter; I. M. Bye, murder; mur-der; James M. Shcckley, murder; A. T. Bay, murder, anl H. Mewhinney, murder, were among the more important applications applica-tions which were denied. Paroles were granted to M. C. Mav-field, Mav-field, John Golatz. Bert Christie. A. V. Smith, Kamel Zeker, I. E. Blackwell and Takegelo Ozako. The sentence of J. D. Bouglas was commuted. Sentences were brdered terminated for the following: James H. Preston, Walter Butler, A. P. Chester, Facundo Gonzales. Robert C. May, Robert Knurr, Joseph Anderson, E. B. Brown, Gust Bokos, John Bawhorn, William Bosanko, C. Alexander, Ed Clark. James Harris, Joseph 'F. Burns, Joseph Eslari, Camelo Planero. James Burke. Aaron Hower, F. E. Walters, Jack Smith and Earl Nelson. |