Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-05-20 | Page 32 | My Hill, Slayer of Attorney, Pardoned

MY HILL, SLAYER OF - ATTORNEY, PARDONED ' f DEE 111AII AT OIICE, ORDERS BOARD; SIX PAROLED 75 Applications. for ' Free- dom; 35 Denied; Tbos. Vance and Harvey G. Bass Gain Their Freedom AMY HELKN HILL, the c4f-confessed c4f-confessed slayer of Ross M. Bonny, attorney, in his office in . the Kearus building, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter man-slaughter March it and sentenced to nine month' Imprisonment, wsa pardoned par-doned by the atate board of pardons yesterday. The pardon waa ordered to take effect immediately. Mrs. Hill left her husliand and children chil-dren to be the associate of Bonny. At the time of her arrest. Immediately following fol-lowing the murder last full, she said she shot Bonny because he had changed his mind about marrying her. Keeling that ahe had been deeply wronged, she entered Honny'e office and tearfully pleaded that the attorney keep bis word. Bhe said that he would not listen lo her and that she then drew a revol- . . ver from her muff and with two shots killed him. The bosrd also granted a parole to Harvey U. Rasa, sentenced May 0. 1S03, to thirty yeare" Imprlaonment for the laylng of a man named McCabe at Ogden. The rehearing of an application In behalf of Abe Majors for a pardon wos I continued until the June meeting of tha board. Majors , was found guilty eighteen years so of the slaying of Police Captain Rrown of the Og'lcn force. An aggressive agitation to have . . Majors pardoned hss been waged for a ... . considerable time, the contention being be-ing that it was not a shot from Majors' revolver that killed the officer, but one fired by his brother, who was sluln In a running fight with the police. 8EVENTY-FIVE APPLICATIONS. The Oitae of Hi P. Armstrong, sentenced sen-tenced May .7. lll. lo' life Imprison-ment Imprison-ment for murder, waa also continued to the June meeting. 'ommuiatlon of senlewe to take ef-I ef-I feet May li was ordered In the case of i Thomas Vsncc. senfmred to twenty years on Novemler 19, l0. after hav- Ing been found guilty of assault with Intent to commit murder. The application for a commutation i l sentence by William McVey. convicted . of murder In the second degree. Keh-ruary Keh-ruary 4. 1st, and sentenced to Ufa Imprisonment, was denied. C. Hlanerlon. eoneVted of second de-gree de-gree murder In Carbon county In 1IS. asked through his attorney that his application for clemency be postpon-d, the request being granted. Plane-ton was sentenced lo fifteen years' Imprisonment. There were seventy-five applications before the board. Paroles were granted grant-ed In six esses. Three applications were continued lo the June meeting and two lo the July meeting of the txwril. Pardon was grained In one . while sentences were ordered to terminate termi-nate tomorrow In six cases. Kcntences were ordered to terminate in seven rases June 7. nine eases July 1. and one rase August 1. Rehearing wsa grant-ed grant-ed for the June meeting In one case. Thirty-five applications were denied. HERE ARE CASES: Those cases In which parole was granted or commutation of sentences j msde are as follows: i Harvey tt. Bass, murder, paroled: i L'hurles H. Brandt, osriault and battery, . rommutation granted: Joseph ll'im-nond, ll'im-nond, petit larceny. commutation trained: Amy Helen Hill, Involuntary manslaughter, pardoned; J. H. Jten-iler-,,f., hurgiury third degree, sen-ji7nintnin sen-ji7nintnin pnge AMY HILL (Continued from page 1.) tence terminated; K. L. Boulden. burglary bur-glary third degree, eenience terminated; terminat-ed; Thomaa Vance, aaaault with Intent to commit murder, commutation granted: grant-ed: William' Swasey. grand larceny, aentenre terminated; J. D. Smith, attempted at-tempted grand larceny, commuted: I Lewis Stewart, burglary aecond degree, sentence to terminate July 1; CJeorce Collins, burglary second degree. en-teme en-teme to terminate June 1; Harry KU llott, robbery, paroled: J. H. Abbott, passing fictitious checks, sentence terminated: Louis Vance, grand larceny, lar-ceny, continued to July meeting: Frank Martell, attempted burglary aecond degree, de-gree, sentence terminated; M. A. Graham, Gra-ham, embesxlement. sentence to terminate termi-nate July I; J. Borrelli. grand larceny, sentence to terminate July I; Alfred Florea, grand larceny, aentence to terminate ter-minate August 1: George Kent, burglary bur-glary second degree, sentence to terminate ter-minate June 1; William Marks, forgery, sentence to terminate July 1: II. C Holnmonsoii. adultery, aentence lo terminate ter-minate July 1 : Sam Green, assault with a deadly weaHn, aentence to terminate-July 1; Frank Kunlx, burglary third degree, sentence to terminate June I; J. K. Jensen, extortion, parole granted;. Harry Holden, forgery, parole granted: James F. F.ck, grand larceny, sentenced to terminate June I; Nick I'aputsakis. assault with a deally weapon, application continued to June meeting; Robert Wilson, robbery, paroled: pa-roled: A. H. Hobart, a reheard application, appli-cation, sentence to terminate July 1; R. M. Dealing's application continued for rehearing at June meeting; Louis Vampa, reheard application, denied: rl. R. Green, reheard application, denied; I Therkelson. Indecency, paroled: Archie Ar-chie Willlama. Immorality, sentence terminated: Abe Majors, murder, continued con-tinued lo June meeting: J. A. Archibald, Archi-bald, assault with a deadly weapon, continued to July meeting: Harry Theron. adultery, sentenced to terminate termi-nate June t: Peter r'errsrt. forgery. sentence to terminate July I; Ralph! Walters. Indecency, sentence to tcrml- nate .Inly I.