Show Leavenworth Prisoner From Utah Asks Release Apparently dissatisfied with the accommodations accommodations ac ac- ac offered at the federal prison on at L Leavenworth Kan H. H G G. Whitney Whiney sentenced by Federal Judge Tillman D. D Johnson Johson May 16 10 1931 on ani charge Is 1 now seeking seeking seek seek- ing his freedom according to E. E C C. Jens Jensen n. n assistant United stat States district dis attorney After Atter having havig served more than half hal of his year three sentence for obtainIng obtaining obtain obtains ing funds fund from Salt Sail Lake merchants merchant while representing himself to be secretary secretary sec see of the federal farm tarm loan board Whitney Whiney has ha filed ed habeas corpus proceedings proceedings pro pro- pro against the warden of ot the prison Mr Jensen said aid In n his petition petton he charges that he did not have a a. fair fir trial in the local federal court He sets set out that the jury was WI already empanelled when he was wa taken into court and that he wax was never given an opportunity to tomake tomake tomake make a plea Whitney Whiney after b being arrested in Los Ls Angeles late in 1930 for Salt Lake officers was waa removed to the Nevada mental hospital from from- which he Is I reported reported re reo ported to have bave escaped Following hI his hs r recapture capture a few weeks later he hewa was wa returned here for tor trial Hearing on the habeas corpus pet peti petition pet lion tion ton will wi be conducted before the United Unit Uni ed States circuit court of ot a appeals a nt at Oklahoma City Okla Okla January 9 Mr J Jensen ns n reports report 5 |