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Show FRANK DEPRATTO'S SENTENCE REDUCED TO 25 YEARS FOR BINGHAM MURDER , SUytr- of Eugene Allen of. Highland 5J!rojTrni Commuted to UV' ' ' - . - vars jn Pen. - ..v Instead of serving a life term in the stato prison, Frank De Pratto will have to serve only twenty-ffve years longer for the murder of Eugene Allen at the Highland Boy store, Bingham Canyon, according to the decision of the state board of pardons Saturday. . This is the second time the board has meted out clemency to De Pratto. On April 12, 1916, he was sentenced to death by Judge M. L. Ritchie. Four weeks later the board communted that sentence to life imprisonment The prison authorities made favorable reports re-ports on his conduct in the prison at the meeting Saturday. De Pratto's was the only commutation commuta-tion allowed by the board of pardons at its regular meeting. The sentences of two other prisoners, sent up for indeterminate in-determinate sentences, were terminated. termi-nated. Five paroles were allowed. Petitions of thirteen convicts for clemency clem-ency were denied, and those of seven others were continued, two subject to call, three to the April and two to the May meetings of the board. .-Other homicides cases up included the petition for pardon of William Mc-Vey, Mc-Vey, convicted of the murder of a Garfield Gar-field storekeeper in 1911, and sentenced sen-tenced to life imprisonment fThis bearing was continued to the May meeting. |
