Show TWO WO INNOCENT INNO NT I MEN ARE UTh TREED FRD fRE D Indian 80 Years Old Was Wrongfully Sent Sent to to Penitentiary Penitentiary Peni Peni- Austrian Is in inI I Prison 29 Months As s a n result of the action of the board 1 of pardons Saturday y afternoon l two o innocent men walked from frolD tho the state tate prison On free One ne was John Toab n a Uto Indian over o SO years carR old who was sentenced from Washington September 14 H 1907 to one ono for b ro stealing At tho the time 0 of his bis conviction on Toab protested his inno mao inno- ne ce-ne-c. Toab had ad been in prison less than two months mouths when a movement was started to rAle release so him bim Friends of tho the a aged agod ell Indian declared I i that his every en action while in in pos possession posses es sion ion of the IJ horse r c was a against the idea ide that thit he thought tho the animal had bad been stolen He lEe was seen on the principal streets of St. St George e a number of times with the tho hor horse c in his hiA possession A petition was started which was signed by practically tho the entire adult population population tion hon of Washington ton county asking for forthe forthe forthe the release of Toab The Tho matter was presented to tho board Saturday and a promptly granted w This mornin morning the tho old oM man was furnished with transportation and placed aboard a southbound train on his hia way to his his' former i homo home Toab can speak and understand un very little English yet et when he was made to understand Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- afternoon that ho was a free freo man manthe manthe manthe the guards had bad no difficulty iu in in understanding under standing that ho he was happy Tho The other man to receive clemency was wn Jose Toso ll an Austrian who served l twenty nine months of a n five five- year car sentence o on the he charge e of in having t taken part in a riot at Bingham ham three years e r ago in which Deputy Sheriff Chidister l was shot hot It II was proven to the tho sal satisfaction of tho board hoard that BaBich had no part in the riot an and that bat his conviction was a mistake The following cases were al also o considered considered con con- by tho the board The Tho case caso of S Samuel muel E. E charged with a statutory offense was continued Ho TIo was 1 b sentenced from Da Davis 3 county in July 1906 1900 to fifteen years ra The petition of Henry M. M hawley Han sentenced for burglary and grand rand larceny lar lar- ceny from Salt SaIt Lake county in October 1906 to six years was denied James K Castle alias ulias Morris Danid Daniel Dan Dan- S id iel iet sentenced d to the county jail for pis flix six months for obtaining mone money under false faleo pretenses had bad ad his biB case co continued con con- t thirty days Tho board denied a parole to James Larson convicted con of perjury September Septem S ber beT 13 1907 in tho Seventh district and sentenced to three years Tho The case of James Overson erson sent up for five 11 years rears for grand larcen larceny was continued ono one month |