Show r ALLRED AND billington ar 0 r governor thomas ft it appears hag has decided A that young ailred allred one ot of the robbers of the nephi bank baa has received all the punishment that justice demands for his crime if the conditions I 1 are as described we should have no lio hesitancy ia III endorsing be lie pardon I 1 I 1 there is no revenue in a the law I 1 I 1 I 1 the true purpose of punishing I 1 any person or class 1 I 1 ia not because people are angry with I 1 hem them and nd are seeking satisfaction satis fiction for their perturb al i spirits punishment is tor for a protection against violators of I 1 human rights and it the young man in question has his been impressed with F the and likewise the of the bank robbing I 1 business to the extent of not wanting 11 to repeat the just closed the public have bal all ill it wants of him in the role of a convict and will be I 1 glad to see him make of himself an honest cautious and conscientious citizen in any case he is to be commended to 10 a generous Re nerous community whose duty in the case should make them kind as well olt w 84 forgiving forg ivine 11 at the tile pardon of li illington convicted along with and all rett red TUB Tits standard DARD availed itself of the occasion to make a it saw low pointed comments com menta on reckless verdicts under the presumption that the lite governors findings in the case justified the granting of the pardon ills this paper took the liberty to hpak with more or less lesi plainness of the nn unwarrantable warrantable action of the trial jury in boding 5 verdict upon evidence which did not fully establish ota blish the guilt of the prisoner no 11 za 1 Y sw p I 1 I 1 I 1 mai on tun tim standard DARD staff knew I 1 1111 ington or his people what was abid id or inferred interred as tj to hie his character or I 1 were incidental to the report of the governa Gover nir nr in support of bi bis action which gave ample grounds for all that was end and more baida besides yet as we have aye since learned a number of gcoy people in sandee San pee where the tile three men wide reside took offense at our rem re irks and arid de ired aired i to surjeet euba tt the whole question 0 to a mien new trial in the i newspapers ewa T THE SfA framak Sr AMAK LIDARD declined to embark in any buch such enterprise for plenty of good reasons if mr wr billington was indeed the tile horrid lir ril person which some of obeta tried to describe him we are truly sorry it it wai true that be participated in the robbery for which he was iru im primo ned we are more sorry still that he ie was not made tj t buffer suffer the full penalty the therele relm but these were not be the matters in controversy when TUB titz STANDARD first treated the question and they would not affect in the least the tile force of our remarks in la the judgment of 0 more persons than the governor there was no warrant tor for the verdict in the evidence the fullest report of the acme available ta to us confirmed that theory and for a jury to convict under inch kuch conditions waa was an outrage up in the design and obligations of a court of cf junie justice it would be the same and under any circumstances cum stances to punish a man not proven to be guilty is s trifling linx with the forms of law in a manner which cannot be other ylse than menacing to personal righta rights |