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Show BOARD PAROLES J05EPHJURTIN Ogden Man. Sent to Prison For Life. Gets Con ditional Freedom Liberty was given Joseph Henry Martin as a Chit-Unas fiili yesterd:i by the slate board ot panlons when h" ws granted a parole iiont i he- I'lali stale penitentiary. Mart in, who seven years ago created a reign of terror in Ogden with ins blackmailing activities against prominent people of the citv, v as met at the- prison doors bv his wife and two small children and es-corted es-corted to his Ogden home in an automobile au-tomobile where he will spend the holi days. Marlin s ease was one of fifty-lllTCfl considered at the regular session Of the pardon board. Me was Convicted in Ihe district court here on charge assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced sen-tenced April 23. 1011. to serve a term of five years in I lie state prison. Later, on charges growing out of the samo Bentea of offenses on which he was first arrested, Martin was found guilt of robbet and sentenced in Ihe satin court to spend the rest of his life be hind the prison walls. On July 8, 1910. Martin, who war acting in the capacity of a fri'sty. es caped and was not again heard from Until October 1, 1920, when he olun tarily returned and gave himself up lo Warden Siorrs. There was a ri ward of JloUO offered for his capture during the fourteen months that h was away, b'r he evaded his pur.Mi rs When he finally decided to give him self up. he wrote to Warden Stuns and a.-Utd the warden to meet him. which he did. so that the reward W8 not paid. Martin's wife and two small children who have wailed during the last sey--n years for his release, were ;it Ihf. prison :md were made happy in being tflowed to take their husband and aihcr home with them. While Mar in has been in prison his wife bat worked in railroad offiee in Ogden. |