Show CONNORS STILL FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM FROM PEN another effort is to be made to free frank connors the only man know known n in any penal who is is solving a life sentence and ten beart more last friday dale 11 I 1 parke attorney for connors filed I 1 on an app for a writ of habeas I 1 corpus asking the supreme court for a review of the circumstances leading up to tho arrest and conviction of connors for the murder of william strong a policeman at provo on june 27 1899 on july alth the application was denied by the supreme court on technical grounds ow owing ing to legal errors and the second application is made with the correction pointed out by the highest tribunal of the state through a decision of the supreme court in december 1900 in which james jarnes W beddo serving five years for conviction on a statutory charge I 1 in provo was released from custody because ot 0 the failure of the legislature of 1899 to legalize its actions in regard to the establishment of the office of district attorneys it was feared that connors too would le allow allowed ed to go free therefore the authorities again haled the lifar lift r into court on a charge of burglary and he was given an additional ten years making his sentence for life and bert ye tart an attempt atten pt is now being alde muje to rove the illegality of the life sentence tins this is the object of filing of the habeas corpus proceedings in the supreme court aa As has been previously stated in the great moral and religious connors received the ten years sentence referred to before ex judge jacob johnson at price some ten years ago for burg S 11 II store at scofield connors was wag brought here from the state penitentiary where he was being held for safekeeping for the murder of policeman strong and was guarded in the old wooden jail which used to be east of the new court house but since bought by price trading company and now used aa as a warehouse ar chouse councilman martin of salt lake city was then a guard at the penitentiary and accompanied connors to price as a special guard |