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Show SEVEN PAROLES GET OKEH FROM TfflDOJWD Killer's Appeal Put on 'Continued' Calendar Amid a Christmas atmoaphera at tha atata priaoa Saturday, in which relatives and friends of prisoners appaarad bearing presents, tha atata board of pardons granted paroles to seven man. danlcd four petitions and continued, hearings on two ; others. i Among cases continued was that I of Mendon Draper, sentenced for life In 1933 for killing an 84-year-! old banker, Andrew H. Bjerregaard at Ephralm. Mrs. Minnie Simmonson, daughter daugh-ter of Mr. Bjerregaard, appeared to protest tha granting of clemency to Draper. She and other relatives of the murdered man said Draper had knocked the aged banker Insensible In-sensible In his home, poured kerosene kero-sene on him and about the home, then set fire to the place. Draper had previously asked the board to continue his case until the Marea parole board ei Ion. Lata Saturday the board began hearing the case of John E. Mc-Naughton, Mc-Naughton, former Vernal school superintendent, su-perintendent, who has served only three days of a one to ten-year sentence sen-tence on a charge of stealing sheep. Only prisoner paroled In time for Christmas waa Tony Christodulis, who had served a year aad six months of a one-to-ten-year sentence sen-tence for voluntary manslaughter Escapee Returns To Cell in Prison "Home again after a pursuit te California, Eugene T. Baeaett, f L Utah state nrleoa escapee, eras bark la a sell Saturday. Baeaett arrived lata Friday In custody of Robert Harries, guard captain, following his capture la Sacramento. With Richard !otti, eonvlctrd robber, Baeaett fled the prison farm October a. Cotti waa captured cap-tured next day at American Fork. in connection with a dance hall row at Mill Creek last ysar. Hs will be freed Monday. Christodulis' attorney, H. H. Hal-llday, Hal-llday, told the board that a plea of guilty had been entered In ths case to avoid the complications of a long murder trial, but that actually Christodulis hsd acted in self defense de-fense In fatally shooting one Richard Rich-ard Jardins. Other prisoners who received paroles, pa-roles, snd the dates the paroles become be-come effective, are: Ferrel William Abplanalp, 11, who had served two months and 12 days of a one-to-20-year sentence for forgery; April , 1938. Larkin Connelly, who had served a year and nine months of a one-to-ten-year sentence for grand larceny; lar-ceny; March 21, 1931. Wallace F. Gam, 20, who hsd served one year and four days of a one-to-twenty-year sentence for second sec-ond degree burglary; February 14, 1938. -Garn's father,' Frank Garn. a metallurgist, said he would send the youth back to school.. Millard & Golfan, 19, who had served four months on an attempted rape conviction; March 20, 1938. Bert Hansen, who had served 11 years and nine days altogether on a one-to-twenty-year aentence for second degree burglary and has been paroled before; effective April 18. 1938. Warden Owen Neoeker told the board Hansen's prison rsc-ord rsc-ord hsd been exemplary. Frank E. Jackson, who had served three months and 28 days of a ons-to-twenty-yesr sentence for burglary; January 20, 1938. Tha board released Johnny Mark-ham Mark-ham from parole after Markham had pleaded that, until the stigms of parols hsd been lifted from his life, he could not be remarried in the L. D. S. temple in accordance with his wife's wishes. Markham had been convicted of second degree de-gree burglary. The termination will be effective September 1, 1938. The board denied paroles to Robert Rob-ert A. Clsyton,- Nicholas Dies, George C Layton and Alfonso Rsmos. |