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Show PARDON WILL BE GRANTED. Provo, March 16, Nothing has been dono since the present city officers took hold of the administration, under un-der tho commission form of government, govern-ment, that has so stirred the pooplo of Provo as the sentencing of Jack Moody, a hack driver, to servo seven-ty-flvo days In the city jail for selling sell-ing one bottle of whisky to a hack passenger. In view of tho fact that other offenders were lot off with a fine only Criticism has been so per- 4 slstent that the mayor and commls- t W sloners have taken cognizance of tho a case, and rumor was rife on tho streets S this afternoon that Moodv was to be ,, freed from Jail today. When seen by r t a newspaper man Mayor Charles F "1i Decker made the following statement: is "I do not think the sentence of Jack Moody was excessive, but he is not i. looked upon by the officers as a reg- i ular 'bootlegger;' he was probably f E accommodating a hack customer, or J j he so considered It, when he procured J a drink for Itlloy, The commission- t ors hae had the matter under con- ? slderatlon and a proposition was made $ to Moody that If he would pay the fine : imposed, $50, a pardon on the jail sen- ; ' tence would be granted." |