Show GEORGE H. H HIGGS IS GIVEN HIS liBERTY Humanitarian Reasons Compel Board of Pardons to Exercise Exercise Ex Ex- Ex- Ex Clemency P r a WIFE DANGEROUSLY Y ILL 1 Board Turns Down Many Offenders Who Want to Get Out of I Penitentiary 1 On the thc showing ln 0 of ph physicians that his wife was threatened with complete boss loss oC of ren reason on as the r result sult of oC the Imprisonment Im Im- Im- Im nl of oC her husband the lite state stat board of oC pardons yesterday pardoned i George H H. Higgs g- g who was sentenced to to one year ear year at the thc state tate prison on charges charses growing out of oC I the Llie robbery of th the Tooele bank balik Big Higgs s ha has boon JJ at liberty for severa several several sev sev- era eral weeks owing to his bin wife's condi condi- I I. I tion Uon In a statement given gl out after aCter yesterdays yesterday's meeting the pardon board wont that Its on specifically n action was wai ba based cd solely lily on consideration 1 tion for Cor the suffering woman and that leniency for COl or the petitioner was In not nowise nowise no no- t wise I intentionally nten 11 Illel Included u e 7 1 Together with A. A 4 B. B Walton alton and S. S I. I Shafer the tho latter the thc cashier r of the bank confessed having ing embezzled em em- from Crom Us its funds after I. I Shafer ha had told a story of desperate robbery by armed highwaymen men and a t t. t number of ot suspects had b been en arrested I th 11 three were sentenced to one year yearb b I In the state prison July 27 7 7 1011 1911 I f WaN III Recently Mrs Irs Higgs ls said to have ha developed d sIA signs s of oC mental derangement derangement derange drange ment suffering from Crom the hallucination tion that site she hc had been the cause of oC I her ller husbands husband's downfall It was found IT that tho the presence of or her husband was the only tiling thins that could coul save her from Cram acute acut Insanity and HIS HIS-gs was released on an order signed b Governor Go by Spry r- r pending lh the consideration of oC his case casc V b by the board of pardons 4 Recommendation 10 for 01 a pardon for fork l k Higgs was as as mn made e b by the count county kney ney the slid sheriff Iff and the prosecuting attorney of oC Tooele county as well as OS dby by a number of prominent citizens and friends S of the prisoner This statement was Issued by the tile board I t I From in indisputable proof furnished t b by physicians attending the wife of or the r petitioner that she Is threatened with complete loss of oC rea reason on and acute in inI inH insanity in- in I- I sanity sanity- sanity and amI suffering from the hallucination hahn hallu that she was tile the cause caus of If her husbands husband's bands band's downfall and from the doctors doctors' doc doc- doctors doctors' tors' tors statements the board Is 15 convinced I that the only thing that will restore the the wife's rea reason on is the presence of oC h her hr r hu husband The doctors also state slate that if the the- petit petitioner Is returned to tu prison the they believe It will result In the perman permanent nt loss of the wife's mind Vet t Get Gt Out The fhe case of oC Alfred D. D Walk alk once a well-to-do well business man of San Francisco Frant Fran Fran- Francisco t cisco who is 18 sel serving t two wo years cars for tOl ob obtaining oh- oh taming mone monet un under er false falle wa was c continued until November Xo i 1 for COI further Investigation U At the la last t meeting Walk was denied Ids hits petition but on the showing of or a friend frien who told the tho board of f how bow Walk alk had befriended be- be J him in days of adversity and 1 who promised ed to take taie Walk back to San Francisco and put hlin hll to work ork at atTi Ti a month a r rehearing was granted g Webster Green who wa was sentenced t to one year for tor a statutory offense from the Seventh Se district court four COUI our years cars ago abo but who has never nc been ben talc tak- n to prison the board ranted granted a n. full pardon Greta Green has been out on re- re I prIA c ever since sentence ce was passed I X N. F. F Haworth 1 who e escaped the gallows gal Cal Callows gal gal- lows by a close l margin nine ago when he was convicted of or the murder of or John ohn Sandle Sandie at La Layton Layton Lay Lay- ton yesterday petitioned for or liberty Ubert His case was continued thirty days daS Haworth orth was yg discovered by b Sandle Sandie while looting a store stord in ha J Lay Layton ton In malting making his escape he be shot and ancl killed kille l the watchman Tho death heath sentence was imposed but at the last moment It W was waa 8 commuted to life lite Imprisonment The rue application of oC E. E Ii F. F S S. S 5 Lane serving en ing one p year ar for or a statutory offense was referred t to the next meeting of or orI the board Lano Lane was sentenced in the Third district court Ma May r fi 5 after having hayIng hay hav I In ing been broil brought ht back from Pueblo blo wh where Ie he went in company compan with a a nov sev old ear girl deserting his wife here hele The Thc case of oC Con ani serving r ono one year for tor second de degree ree burglary was continued d ninety day davS Sullivan was sentenced from the Fifth FIrth district court June 27 1911 HIlI Denied The petition of John Holmes s sentenced to lo eight ht years vears for first degree burglary Jar In tho thit Third district court October 25 5 1506 was denied The Tile application o of ot ofRay na tiny Ray M. M Phillips serving tour four years for lOt was referred to the tho next meet- meet In lug Ing The case of oC W. W P. P Vestal serving one y year ar aror for or attempted extortion was also continued as as was that of ot V. J. J Hepburn serving ten years ears for a 1 statutory statutory statu statu- tory ton offense The petitions of Z Z F F. Sampson sering serving ser serY- ing one year for grand larceny larcen and Geor George c D D. Brown Drown serving one ono year ar for fora forS a S felony cIon w were re denied William A. A Bi serving twelve twel years for robbery robben was referred d to the n next meet meet- ing The rue same disposition was a made of oC the tile cases of oC James Wilson serving N one year ear for or second degree burglary burg and Arthur J Brown serving r two an and half one years ears for forgery forg-cr John Norton Norton Nor Nor- ton and ilert Hett Allen serving five Cl and cI eight hl t years ears respectively cl for Cor attempted robbery were re referred to the next meeting fl C C t I ii g. g Edward Edvard Kent ser In serving seven years for or orr gland r and larceny larcen was denied a a. pardon William S S. S Seath ser tl the le same S sentence sen n tence for the tho same offense was denied his ils but without prejudice which means he may again make his Ins petition on th the same grounds F K Carlin serving four months in the count county Jail jall for petit larceny was de denied tie tie- e- e nied a pardon and Dean Fo Foster ter servIng servIn In Ing ng six months for the same offense was granted a pardon His sentence would expired within several sc days days- Barr Harry C. C Gord Gordon n serving ing two years ears for third degree burglary was paroled and th the petition for parole of or J. J II H. Cummings serving senIn five fhe years ears for Cor attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted was continued thirty da days S r |