Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-26 | Page 11 | Lifer to Plead Again for Commutation of Sentence in Murder

Lifer to Plead Again For Commutation of Sentence in Murder Slayer Who Vho 1 Twice vice Escaped State Prison Will Seek Clemency for Eleventh Time at Pardons Board Meet l A convicted murderer who twice escaped from the state stat prison will wil make his tenth appeal to the pardons board for clemency clemency clem ency when he seeks commutation of his life sentence at th the boards board's meeting January 11 Robert H. H McCoy convicted of ot murder in connection with a Bountiful Bountiful Boun Boun- bank robbery in 1924 1024 heads the list of 11 others seeking termination termination termination nation of indeterminate sentences and three cases continued from the tho boards board's December hearing McCo McCoy escaped March 3 1935 by simply walking away from the tho farm where he was a trusty Prison officials expressed surprise because despite his hiJ escape in 1929 he had shown no signs of restlessness and was made a a. trusty He was captured in May at StPaul St St. Paul Minn after a confidante had told police McCoy planned to rob roba a refrigerator plant He was then discovered to be the Utah fugitive His first escape was staged Mar March Marh h 5 1929 1920 while working as an nn automobile automobile auto auto- mobile mechanic in the tho prison yard He pretended he wanted to test test the brakes of a car owned o by Prison Pris Pus on Guard William Villiam Greer Green started the motor and sped out the prison gates That freedom ended a month later in Butte Mont when police arrested him as a suspect in a gasoline gasoline gasoline gaso gaso gaso- line theft case ease Since 1927 McCoy has filed lied nine applications with the pardons board seeking pardon parole termination or commutation of his life sentence In 1934 the board terminated his indefinite sentence on a robbery charge but McCoy went right on ser serving ing his life sentence On December 5 1924 after robbing robbing robbing rob rob- bing the Bountiful State hank bank McCoy M Mc Wc Coy and Archie Wilcox fled to Val ValVerda ValVerda ValVerda Verda in an automobile A machine driven by Roy Heath Salt Lake City business man approached Acc According According Ac Ac- c cording to the evidence e McCoy thinking the tho ear car ar contained police fired tired and killed Heath Salt Lake City police captured McCoy who insisted the cops in inthe inthe inthe the car that was following us ua shot hot Heath Among the three continued cases Is that of Lambert Egli sentenced in Third district court October 6 1935 to four months in jail on a reckless driving charge He asked parole at the t December meeting The other two to whose cases were continued arc Edward W. W Colket and Robert Ear Earle la Colket is serving an indeterminate sentence on a grand larceny charge convicted in Salt Lake county last June Earle Earlo was sentenced to one oneto oneto oneto to 10 years after conviction in Salt SnIt Lake county September 27 1935 on ona on ona ona a grand larceny charge charce Those seeking termination of in indeterminate indeterminate in- in determinate sentences the charges sentences and date and place of convictions are arc James Archer robber robbery five years to life March 1 1932 Salt Lake county Dick Boatman assault aSsaul oneto one oneto oneto to five 4 1934 Salt Lake county Lee Diamenti assault with witha a deadly weapon indeterminate January 26 1932 Price Harry T. T Edwards automobile theft one to five years July 21 1932 1032 Ogden peldon Celdon Evensen grand larceny one ono oneto oneto onoto to 10 years November 2 1935 Richfield Richfield Rich Rich- field Pete Humphries grand larceny larceny larceny lar lar- ceny and burglary one to 20 years on and one to 10 years on burglary September 27 1932 Salt Lake county