Show INDIAN CHIEF ASKS PARDON FOR HIS SON Tribal L Leader Lader ader Mak Makes sl Mer Mercy y Pl Il Plea a to St State te Board By JOHN U. U TERRELL An Indian chieftain Mose Nee Nee- man dc decked k d out in full tull tribal cf galla galia of oC feathered uniform and warbonnet war var warbonnet bonnet unable to speak the white whiteman's whiteman's whiteman's mans man's language appeared before the state pardons board Saturday to plead for tor his son son Lingard Nee Nee- man man nian who the white men say stole a horse Lingard entered the state prison April 14 last year ear to serve serve one to 10 years years and and his father head of oC the Washakie tribe pleaded through an interpreter for tor termination termination termination tion of sentence A giant of oC a man man Chief Mose was prepared to voice the eloquence of his tribe but when he laid eyes upon his his' friend Attorney General Joseph Chez he went vent mute For all his strength he ho could barely talk Tears streaked down hi his face and tell fell upon upon his feathered garment garments gar gar- ments ment He had known Joe Chez 20 years They had worked out legal matters together had drafted treaties H Here re in his friend stood the means of his sons son's deliverance Power Lacking But among the white men Joe Chez did not wield the power his tribal admirer had hoped A score of other natives joined their chief chiet from Washakie Utah in believing they had been sent a savior They could not understand the whiteman's whiteman's white whiteman's mans man's explanation that the pardons board must study the case before rendering a decision So convinced was Chief Mose that his son would be freed immediately immediately im im- im- im mediately that when he was al allowed allowed allowed al- al lowed t to visit the youth in the prison cell he refused to leave until the young oung Indian was released d. d Now that Joe Chez had appeared he expected his son Jon to walk right out Laboriously through the Interpreter Interpreter interpreter inter Inter- preter James Chief Mose tried to explain that his son did not steal the horse When the horse was stolen in Box Elder county county county coun coun- ty his son was sas in Pocatello Idaho The Indian chief was among those making perso personal al app appearances in 26 cases His His' father and three three brothers brothers broth rs appeared appeared ap to ask termination of Ernest Trujillos Trujillo's life lite fo for the first first- degree murder of a Uintah basin rancher He entered prison when 17 years ears old and has served nearly 12 years His father and brother brought letters from Uintah basin citizens to support their plea Pleads Fiends For Mother WInnifred Evans of Farmington appeared in behalf of oC her mother Mrs Alfred T. T 1 77 77 who has served four years and 17 days on ona ona ona a second-degree second murder charge harge growing out of f the death of a woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man upon upon whom an illegal operation operation operation opera opera- tion was performed The younger woman pleaded that pleaded that her mother not be allowed to die in prison She would care for the aged woman she told the board Paul Von Bode also is in prison in connection connection connection con con- with the same case case James Devinc Devine attorney appeared for tor the oldest man in the prison Frank Smith year old lumberjack lumberjack lumber lumber- jack who has served three and one- one half years cars of a year five to life sentence sentence sentence sen sen- tence for robbing a bank in Hyrum to which he pleaded guilty Smiths Smith's relatives in Plainfield N. N H. H are eager to care for the aged man if it he is released the attorney told the board t tL Aids L S Son r I 7 3 41 6 i S 'S i i Mose Wants His HisSon HisSon Son Released |