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Show LIFE TERMER GIVEN flEWSTMULO Henry Davies, Convicted of Murder in First Degree, Granted Liberty. Thu tcntcni'e of Hnnry Davies, sentenced sen-tenced t.u life, imprisonment by-JuJ'e 0. LoiiI'liouroiv iu the district court of .Salt T.al'.e county on May 21, 1015, for nitiriler in tin; first decree, waj commuted conditionally at the meeting of tbc state board of pardons yesterday. yester-day. fJavies v.ill nave ii is liberty, it ndin rjood behuior, according to the decision of the board. Dnviee, said to have been drinking heavily at tho time, Miot and kilted a youn;,' man named Davis who had been working for hint when tho two ,'ot nilo a heated argument iu a Second South street rooming bouse, where Davies had summoned sum-moned his ietim. Three other feutences were terminated, termin-ated, another commuted and one cou-viet. cou-viet. was paroled at. the meeting yesterday, yes-terday, and one cae was continued until tho July meeting of the .board. The se.nleneu of Mike Davich, convb-ted and sentenced to years iu tbe state penitent iary for murder in the second degreo in the district court iu Jnab county on March 1, 11)17, was commuted com-muted to 1.) years by the board. The sentence of V. C. Anderson, convicted con-victed in October of last year in Morgan Mor-gan county of forgery and given an indeterminate in-determinate sentence in the state prison, was terminated at once. The tormina lion was given on recommendation recommenda-tion of the presiding judge and tho prosecuting attorney of Morgan conntv. The sentenco of J. F. Estes,' convicte'd in Carbon county of robbery and sentenced sen-tenced indeterminately on February 23, 1917, was terminated, effective May 19. The sentence of G. T. Arnett, convicted con-victed in Weber county of burglary in the second degree on November 13, 1917, -was also terminated effective Slay 19. The court had recommended two years in this case. R. V. Clark, convicted in Salt Lake county and given an indeterminate sentence sen-tence iu August of last year for burglary bur-glary in the third degree, was paroled. The caso of Frank DcLauev, convicted con-victed iu Weber county in July, 1917, fit" grand larceny, was continued to tho July mooting. AH other applications were denied by the board. |