Show Pardoned the Mormons WA5mNGToSOct 9The President has pardoned Ammon M Tenney J C Kemp and J S Christofferson three bishops of the Mormon Church convicted in Arizona two years ago of violation of the Edmunds law and sentenced to jail at Detroit Michigan They were the first persons tried under that law and the President and AttorneyGen eral a well as the Judge before whom the cases were heard are now satisfied that the sentences imposed were illegal and excessive exces-sive I appears that they were tried on the charge of unlawful cohabitation a misdemeanor misde-meanor and convicted and sentenced for polygamy a felony and that there were several other informalities in the trial |