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Show OGDEN El IS DENIED PAROLE Walter Hampton's Plea Turned Down by Pardons Board Walter M. Hampton, former bookkeeper book-keeper for the Golden Rule store, who enlered the state prison yester day morning to serve sentence from one to twenty years after having been convicted of forgery in the district dis-trict court hero, has been denitd parole by the state board of pardons Hampton appeared before the board yesterday afternoon but a few hours after being taken to the prison from the county Jail here, according to Mayor ank Francis, who attended the pardons board meeting yesterday upon invitation of Governor Simon Bamberger. The board members listened to I Hampton's plea for liberty, but emphatically em-phatically denied him parole. Mayor Francis said. Hampton was convicted of having filled In two checks of the Golden Rule store for $1500. Mayor Francis, upon Invitation, listened to the pleas of other convicts con-victs for parole and declared upon his arrival homo last night that the state board is accomplishing much in guiding prisoners toward living better bet-ter lives through the honor system nsed at the prison, and the system used in releasing them. no |