Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-01-11 | Page 11 | Utah Killer Loses Eleventh Appeal to Paroles Board

Utah Killer Loses Eleventh Appeal to Paroles Board For the 11 th time the board of pardons Saturday turned a deaf dea ear to the pleas of clemency of a convicted murderer who twice escaped from the state states pris prison n. n Without comment by the board members commutation n of hi hilife his life sentence was denied Robert H. H McCoy convicted of murder murde in connection with a Bountiful bank robbery in 1924 McCoy cCoy first escaped March 5 1929 by driving a a. car from the prison yard after he pretended he wanted to test the brakes He was captured a month later in Butte Mont McCo McCoy escaped again March 3 1935 b by walking away from the farm where he was a trusty He was captured in May at St. St Paul Minn when implicated in a plot to rob a refrigerator plant Since 1927 McCoy has filed 11 applications applications applications ap ap- ap- ap with the pardons board seeking pardon parole termination or commutation of ot sentence McCoy was convicted co of slaying Roy Heath Salt Lake City business businessman businessman man man whom McCoy and a fellow bank robber thought to be an officer officer officer when Heaths Heath's car followed the pair after the e robbery Other cases Eases disposed of were Ten other cases were disposed of by the state board of pardons as it began consideration of a calendar of 20 cases one of the lightest in seven se months Two prisoners were granted paroles paroles paroles pa pa- roles three were denied clemency three cases were continued and two sentences were terminated Parole effective April 4 1936 w was ws s granted to James Archer serving a year five-year to life sentence on a robbery robbery robbery rob rob- bery charge on condition that he go to Colorado He was convicted I of obtaining by robbery a few years ago James Sutter a friend appeared for Archer to contend the whole affair was a case of mistaken identity Parole effective May 5 5 1936 was granted to Richard Boatman serving serving serving ing a one to year five-year sentence for assault with a deadly weapon He had pleaded guilty to forcing a motorist motorist mo mo- to drive him to Salt Lake City from Helper and robbing the driver of 5 5 and a watch He must mustS leave the state when paroled Termination of sentence was granted Edward V W. W Colket serving serving serving ing one to ten years ears for Cor grand larceny larceny larceny lar lar- lar- lar ceny for tor the theft of oC a truck in 1934 His parole is effective immediately immediately immediately im im- im- im mediately if he leaves the state Colket Colket Col- Col ket indicated he could get needed medical attention in Pennsylvania at his mothers mother's expense A parole was denied Frank Devenish Devenish Dev- Dev enish of Helper serving a year five-year to life sentence for a statutory of of- Lense Robert Earle was as denied termination termination termination tion of a one to year 10 sentence for grand larceny comm committed ted late in 1933 Convicted of participating Inthe in inthe inthe the robbery of the Western Vester States Grocery company in S Salt lt Lake City Earle escaped from the prison Armistice Armistice Armistice Ar Ar- da day in 1933 and was captured captured captured cap cap- nearly a year later and given givena a three to 20 year 20 ear sentence His record of 10 previous arrests and four convictions on felony elony charges prevented Harry T. T Edwards Edwards Edwards Ed Ed- wards getting a parole He is servIng serving serving ing a sentence not to exceed five years for depriving an owner of an automobile obi le Granted a termination of oC a one oneto oneto oneto to year 20 sentence for second degree degree degree de de- de- de gree burglary Peter Hum Humphries be began began began be- be gan serving a one to year 10 sentence sentence sen sen- tence for theft of ot a fur coat His first sentence was as for the burglary of a Salt Lake City fur store