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Show Abe Majors Denied ' Complete Pardon i Abe Majors, who began sentence in the Utah state penitentiary for lb? murder of Captain William Brown of the Ogden police department in 1901,1 and who has ber-n out under commutation commu-tation of sentence since January 18, 1!19. appealed to the state board of: pardons for a full pardon Saturday. The appeal was denied. The board also (ion led Hie i.psinw tion for pardon of A.Y B. Parsons who was sent to the prison frm Ogden last February after conviction on a forgery! charge The application of S. S Mun son from Weber county, serving sen tence on a statutory offense, met similar simi-lar fate Governor-elect Mabey, who will be 4 member of the board for the next four years, attended the session yesterday, to faniill?.rl7e himself with ihe work and with Ihe points of view of the present members, nil but two of whom Will remain for at least two years Commutation of sentence was grant-1 ed to Frank DePretto lo the extent that he will he released from ihe state prison November 2, 1925. the coinmu tation being tor five years, "flat time." DePretto was one ot two men implicated impli-cated in the robbery oi the Highland Boy store in Bingham In 1914, the rob bery resulting In the murder of Eugene Eu-gene Allen, who was sleeping in the store DePretto claims it was his partner, part-ner, Harry Brewer, also in l ho prison, who did tho actual shooting. DePretto. according to Warden George A Storrs. has made a good record rec-ord in prison, where he is employed hs a cook. He proved his trustwortbi-ne&s trustwortbi-ne&s to the BStiafaction of some of Hie state officials when he accompanied the governor and others on a trip through the Uintah basin. 1 became necessary at times io leave him in charge of the equipment of the pcrly PePretfo and Brewer wore pen fenced to bo shot in 1JH4. They ap pealed the case and finally, after the appeal had been denied, the sentence of DePretto was commuted, in December, Decem-ber, TH6. b the board of pardons under un-der Governor Sprv lo life Imprison ment This was further commuted to. twenty-five years last March l'nles3 tho present arrangement la altered DePretto De-Pretto will bp about 55 years old on leaving the state prison. The other commutation wns that of George Shelton. w"o. with another man. was sentenced to one year in the countv Jail on a charge of burglary in the third degree Tho sentence would have expired next April Countv officials offi-cials are confident that Shelton, who is a young man yet, will make good. oo |