Show PARDON BOARD MEETS four granted and seven other cases considered and denied for the first time on record the governor gov arnof has used the power granted him hirn by the constitution to melease a prisoner r between meetings of tho tile board of pardons pending the tile determination mi nation of the case by the board at its next meeting this was done in the case of A A gerke and the fact developed saturday at the tile meeting of the buard board when gerke was granted a full pardon wi another iother roan man who was pardoned wis 1 s charles 11 II chapman he was sentenced tan bcd by judge armstrong january 16 15 to three years in the penitentiary tent iary lary for the crime ot of breaking into a chicken coop and appropriating three chickens chicken rs and ono rooster lie he will be released july 1 den T rasche sentenced to five years in the tile penitentiary april 5 1906 by judge armstrong for burglary burglar v was ordered released july 15 W T lewis of logan was also pardoned d boned ho lie IS N a young man of good family connections but on or september 12 1906 he was convicted of adultery in tho the cache county district court and sentenced to one year A petition from a large number of citizens of logan and vicinity was war received by the board asking for the pardon which was granted and lewis returned to his homo last night seven other cases were wore considered and pardons denied ono of these was waz that of walter whiter E burrill Burrl ll sentenced by judge arm stong to eighteen years in the penitentiary tent iary lary on january 25 1905 for robbery no one appeared in his behalf and the pardon was doomed without further consideration percy C cosmor cosmot jr sentenced cea by i judge u ge armstrong rin strong to toone one yea year r for bur I 1 glary glare on december 11 1006 was also denied a pardon p irdon without consideration john woo 1 l sentenced to ten years from weber county bounty september JS 1903 1901 0 I 1 was also denied his freedom it m appears p that wood was discovered departing by the ladder route from a second story window of a resort in ogden loaded with spoils his discoverer was one tom Top lian husband of the woman who conducted the place in order to make good his getaway get away wood shot at and as the weber county district attorney in a communication to the board said his intent was good but his aim poor charles lode colored ored sentenced from salt lake county december IG 1905 for ton ten years for robbery must alpo remain in prison a while longer he was accused of assaulting a mau in tho the corridors of the atlas block one night and holding a razor at the victims throat compelling him to give up 40 john reed Ma masters sentenced from salt lake take county november 14 1905 for three years for burglary taylor sentenced in the local city court march for six months in the county jail for petit larceny and albert miller sentenced from salt lake c county for five years for taking liberties with a female child april 26 1900 1906 were ware all denied pardons the last case was ans made noteworthy at tho the time it happened by the fact that miller was first arrested on a minor charge and sentenced to six months in n the county jail he ile was ie leased shortly afterwards afterward 8 a writ of habeas corpus and immediately imme rearrested and sent to the penitentiary for five years washington june 16 baron kaneko whom the tokio torio hochi asserts will probably succeed viscount ao kl as ambassador from japan at this country Is a former minister of justice in the tokio cabinet he wag wa sent to the united states during the i russian n japanese war on a confidential nils mission sion from the japanese government during the portsmouth peace conference he Is credited with having urged japans japan ta agreement to the terms as anally signed |