Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-04-10 | Page 2 | $500 Payment to Release $3000 Bond

Payment to Release Bond At a special meeting of ot the state board of pardons held held- Friday in inthe the office of of- Governor George H. H Dern the application of William H H. H Emms to be released release from the pay payment payment ment of a civil judgment r rendered against him as bondsman for Ben Smith amounting to wa was granted conditionally I Ben Smith alleg alleged sl confidence man man was arrested in Ogden and when brought before the court Emms and another man became hid hii bondsmen Then Smith disappeared and the bond was declared forfeited and Judgment in civil action was rendered against the sureties 4 At a n later date Smith was apprehended in Montreal and returned to Utah where he was tried and convicted convicted con con- and given an indeterminate indeterminate- sentence in the state prison Meanwhile Mean Meanwhile while efforts were made to collect the judgment against Emms Emma He pleaded po poverty erty and appealed to the pardon board to have nave the judgment set aside At the special meeting held Fri i Ila day John P. P Tobin appeared fo foe Emms and the board decided thaIn that tha In lu view that the state had be been n put putto to the expense of ot between an anil l 1000 that the Judgment for OO be released upon the payment bEmma bYI by b Emms Emma of the same Sante to be paid I within six months