Show A CRIME OF FORTY YEARS AGO Forty years ago J W Peterson a burglary near After ACter the lapse ol of time which should have allowed him to forget I Ithe the man writes Governor Mabey asking asUng what he might be called on onto onto onto to do In ext expiation lation of the crime From burglar Peterson turned to minister of ot be the gospel He was conscience stricken His soul had bad been perturbed and his mind made disorderly and so EO he sought to end the anguish Ho lIe offered himself as a victim of ot the law jaw Governor Mabey did the proper thing in notifying the offender of oC long ago that he be was not dISposed to institute criminal proceedings as asan asan asan an attempt to invoke oko oke the law would only work unwarranted injury Then the governor wrote So far as I have any authority you are arc cd and I 1 trust Imst your conscience will be relieved by thIs message The people ot of Utah will silt approve of this merciful act A man who ho hohas has carried curled his misdeed over a pe pe- period period nod of nearly half ball a century and has been so harassed by his own sense ot of right and wrong as finally to divulge his crime when all trace of oC him had been burled buried In the ob oblivion of ot forty years must ha hate e enough of o virtue to far fag overbalance overbalance ance his faults The law does not aim at yen ven vengeance The fhe highest purpose Is to toI I redeem and restore to useful citi citizenship citizenship those who hive hwe fallen Due regard of oC course js s given to the administering ad administering ministering of oC rebuke as a source of discouragement to tho those o who might be tempted to violate the law if IC there was no chastisement ement The Re Rev Peterson in his forty years of ot self abnegation and mental atonement has hag paid the full fall price of his crime |