Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-03 | Page 13 | Ringling Seeks Prison Release

RINGLING SEEKS PRISON RELEASE Slayer Asks Board of Pardons Pardons Pardons Par Par- dons for Clemency Pugh Petitions Al Ringling ng the man who would rather be shot in Utah than return to the Idaho state prison is asking the Utah state board of pardons for clemency clem clem- ency His case will be heard at the regular meeting on June 18 Ringling is serving a life sentence for the murder of or John Bartholemy a sheepherder Bartholemy was killed in n 1913 The exact time of his death was not known for his body was picked up on the range several weeks after he was last seen in Price His skull was fractured About ten years ago Ringling was arrested in Idaho for a crime he allegedly allegedly al- al committed in that state He immediately confessed the murder of Bartholemy and was released to Utah for trial His defense in Utah was w that he was in the Colorado reformatory re- re at Buena Vista when Bartholemy Bartholemy Bartholemy Bar Bar- was killed and that he had confessed to the murder to get awa away front from the horrors of the Idaho prison Ringling came into prominence some years ears cars ago by communicating with an eastern man over the sale of some circus animals In the correspondence correspondence corre corre- Ringling who is no relative rela- rela live ive to the circus man gave an address on East Twenty-first Twenty South street The buyer came to Salt Lake before finding inding that the address was that of the he state prison David J. J Pugh who Is serving for having laving looted the state treasury is asking for parole Pughs Pugh's application for or parole made last December was granted ranted effective January 3 1933 Apparently Mr l Pu Pugh h wants an earlier dismissal Ernest Trujillo serving life e for his part in the murder of Thomas Rhodes aged Uintah basin recluse is asking commutation Gilbert Brighton serving ng ing a year 20 term for tor the murder of Charles L L. Faus Salt Lake druggist is also asking parole Brighton was given a life liCe term in 1922 but in 1 1931 31 Ithe he the board of pardons commuted the sentence to 20 years