| Show JAMES H BACON I PARDONED TODAY Atton Attorney y General enea of the United States Says HIs Conviction Was Unwarranted 1 t tand I and Decidedly Erroneous j c Comptrollers of Currency Say Mr Bacon is the First Bank Om cial Ever Interfered With and Convicted OH Account of the Methods tie He Assert that Bank OffiCials All AllOver Over the United States Stales Do the th Same Thing and Are NeVer ever i Bacon Upon Conviction Said H Ho Woul it 1 Never Go to Have Conic Come af i fort He Has Made for of the Case I I will never neer gO to prison primal I will die I though I commit I Such were the exclamations which fell reI from Ih time drawn lips of at J II H Bacon when hue ho was convIcted after aCtor the failure ot of the batik bank ot of which he was president Whether the utterance were ere a 3 prophetic tic on one or not It has come to a truthful realization for Mr Bacon was pardoned b by President this morning RECEIVED SPECIAL TO THE NEWS Washington U D C Dec McKinley today Granted a pardon to James II Dacon who was convicted In Utah In mc ot of making fraudulent re returns turns to the controller ot of the currency and was sentenced to seven years ears In prIson None ot of the sentence has been served however as Bacon has been on ball bail pending court proceedings The case calle Is one of oC general Interest as time the former amid present controller tIme the attorney general all think the UtI accuser accused man ras ns Innocent ot of Intentional fraud the last named officer concluding his to the President as follows follos It would be most unjust to visit up upon upon on the petitioner the severe secre penalty by the statute upon upun ot of offenders fenders against the national banking la ws for a mere failure to tallow follow strict strictly ly Iy a purely purel technical detail such as this vas 1 advIse that tile the hO be bera hOPy ra 4 Py Press n Dec bee President has hns granted a full pardon to James n H Bacon Dacon who was convIcted In 1590 1110 and sentenced f to t Imprisonment for tor seven seen years ears In the Utah Jor musk muk big Ing a fah false e reP comptroller ot of the currency ot of the condition ot of the National flank nank ot of Salt Balt Lake utah or of which lie he was president The method ot of making his report It b by the comptroller ot of the currency Dawes and his predecessor was well universal among banks and was well understood b by the department und and until this time hail not been the subject of corn com complaint plaint They both tate state that In their Judgment Bacon Dacon was Innocent of at any moral wrong and that he ought not notto to have hae been convicted Attorney Gen Gels In reviewing the case says the evidence did not a finding ot of g guilty It PRIVATE TELEGRAM A telegram was as received lucre here prey pre bus lous to the arrival of the Associated Press dispatch from Crom J I II Bacon Dacon at D C which announced that Mr r Bacon had been grante granted a tUI full fulland and free lardon b by President McKinley OF CASE CASEI Mr tr Bacon was Indicted trie tried and cn con I In the Unie United States district court of Utah for making false report to 10 the comptroller of oC the currency as asto asto to the condition ot of the American Na National bank on December 21 S 1193 at which time he was ot of the In 1 lie was a sentenced to n a term ot of seven years In the Utah penitentiary His attorney appealed to 10 the cIrcuit Hs court ot of appeals al alleging errOr emr In the trial The orl Indictment against Mr tr Bacon a found b by the gt grand jury ury November Th The cu case came to 0 trial early earl In December De of oC that ear earIL er erI I IL was as prosecuted b by United States John W V Judd and his W S 14 I McGinnis while Colonel Ellis o of Dickson Els EllIs Els Ellis was al coun counsel el for Mr Ir Bacon Dacon The trial jury Jur was a composed ot at II H S Deatle fo foreman man Robrt Robert Sherwood U n S Wright 11 I a 0 WhItney p C Christen ChristenSn Christenson Sn son LwIs Lewis M t Cannon John fluid Jott S Clark Edward Edard Morgan or an E B Ruth Thomas Se Sevy and Richard Ou December the jury return d Is its verdict In these words We e the jury JUT In the case ot of the Unit United ed Cd States or of America against J H Ba Bacon Bacon con say the defendant is 19 gm 08 charged In the third and earth counts of time the indictment On the following daD Mr Bacon appeared In court for f r sen n tenee tence le lie was greaty greatly agitated over oer the verdict of the jury and was Wan pall patti and hO haggard gon at tM th outcome ot of the case Judge Marshall was very ery brief In time he of at lug his painful dut duty Corn Com said lr Bacon Dacon to stand up ho You hare been convicted of 0 a very ery serIous antI and thO tm court coUtt now sen tenses lences you OU to seven years confinement In the Utah State prison Col Col Ellis Els made a brief bt earnest and eloquent appeal for Cor I a suspension l or oc sentence In order to I a bi bIll or at exceptions to make n a motion tot for n a new anew molon new ew trial I If time present bend ot of 00 were consider considered they woUld gle give one Irs In an any amount that th the court would desire Tl Time finding lt f guilty re e elated lale solely lel to the overdraft tuiti n I It wa was monstrous to send the II to prison on on an eror error or of ping The verdict he thought shoUld be Bt eel IStO aside Attorney resented counsels characterization o of time the verdic verdict and tie de declared dared that the finding was 9 whity hII justifiable It was OS only one ot of a series ot of grave offenses lie He WS was Oi J i Jany any suspension ot of sentence enten As s to bal bail that was a very ef thil thing In such sucha sucha a a case as 8 tle the one oue at bar barThe The rhe court said sald he be sow saw no r ln Cor for d delay l y Sentence could be i d dant N d I ant be The court ho v r r would stay ta the ot of the sena sen which WIS was done after sentence c wa was Imposed Th The stay was al for forty days and pending that time Uma the defend defond defendant I ant was permitted to Co have hae his lbert liberty on furnishing n a bond Conviction was vas had u upon on the thIrd and fourth count The third charged Bacon Dacon wih with enterinG entering In his report to the comptroller ot of the currency 5 ns as overdrafts when the amount should have been beems stated n as und anti wih with doing this wih with the Intent ot of deceiving nn an agent to be appointed by tM the con Time he fourth charred him wih with entering an overdraft upon his report to the com comptroller of the currency whereas the amount should haw have been much greater and with so doln doing with the tho Intent of deceiving an agent Jent b by law Mrs Irs Susan Ti D Emery a wealthy Sai Salt Lake woman was on Mr Bacons Dacons first bond of 20 The instrument how hov however ever eer was not approved by the court on account ot of some legal technicality and Mr Ir Bacon Dacon gave sae a new bond In the same sum which was dul duly accepted wih with the suretes sureties Jeremiah W V E Hubbard J W buston bus Hous ton Ion I L W Dittman p F J Leonard and F W S Ross floss The bond simply recited that the do de defendant fondant abide the order of the circuit court of at appeals When the ease case went to this court Ir Bacon hind had a new attorney at attore tore torney In the person of at lon lion George Georgo Sutherland who prepared the brief and argue argued the case at St Paul on the 2nd n or May tay last before Judges Thayer Caldwel and Sanborn Attorney George Sutherland when apprised of the courts decision promptly appealed to time the Supreme Court of the United States s on the tho re receipt ot of the remittitur and pro pre presented rented time the case In the form fonn or of an ap for or a 11 writ ot of certiorari The Supreme Court upheld tIle form former er decisions and then a vas gotten UJ up asking President MeKin 1 Ie ley to pardon Mr r Bacon This petton petition was signed by some member members ot of tIme tho jUt Jury nearl nearly all the banker bankers ot of Salt Sal I I ke and many prominent cItizens For or lome some Mr Ir ean has been In Washington pressing his case and so far ns as end and pluck are aro concerned thoroughly deserved the to re his stilt family which brinia joy jo to himself and |
