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Show PARDONS BOARD STILL DEBATES TEACHER'S PLEA- Fate of Utahn Held Rustler of Sheep Studied Hours John E. McNaughtan, Uintah county acholmaater, who several years ago turned aheo pmaa with . unhappy results, spent hia fifth day in tha atata priaon Monday whila tha atata board of pardona struggled unsuccessfully to determine deter-mine whether ha ia guilty of altering alter-ing brands. After houra of dlacuulon In tha of flcea of Governor Henry H. Blood, chairman, tha board reported report-ed that it had arrived at no agreement agree-ment on McNaughtan'a appeal for termination of hia aentence of from one to tan years. In midafternoon tha board receaaed to 4:90 p. m, whan executive session consideration considera-tion of tha application was ached-uled ached-uled to resume. McNaughtan entered tha priaon last Thursday after contesting hia conviction in three appeals to tha atata aupreme court Ha waa eon vteeoa' in Ivit as Vernal, whara formerly ha waa principal of tha Central high achool, and where he had been a teacher for many year. At tha pardon board hearing of tha case Saturday at the atato priaon, McNaughtan'a attorney, H. L. Mullluer, charged that prejudice preju-dice entered Into tha trial of tha caaa at VernaL Tha district attorney attor-ney at tha time, Dallas Young, now district Judge there, denied tha assertion. |