The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-19

The board of pardons met yesterday
to consider a grist of applications for
executive clemency. In all there were
twenty-five applications, some accom-
panied by petitions signed by friends
and some not, but all contained a pitt
full appeal to the head of the state
government for that freedom which
other men enjoy. The board sat from
early morning till o'clock in the even
ing but only succeeded in acting on
thirteen of the applications, each one
of which set forth at length reasons
calculated to actuate the board favor
ably for the petitioners.
ONE PARDON GRANTED.
ed but one was granted. That was the
case of John S. Andrews of Ogden,
who was sentenced May 20, 1895 to two
years in the penitentiary for burglary.
Accompanying the application was a
petition headed by Secretary of State
j. t. Hammond and signed by a large
number of prominent citizens which
represented that the offense was An
drews' first; that he had a family de-
pendent upon charity for support and
that inasmuch as he had served six
confined in the county Jail month
prior to sentence, it was believed by
the signers that he had been punished
sufficiently. Warden Dow, of the peni-
tertiary, certified to the good conduct
OF Andrews since his incarceration.
THOSE DENIED.
were those of ]. M. Richardson, John
Pierce, 7. w. Marsh, Maurice A. Pre-
vost, Thomas F. Quinn, Richard
Knight, Samuel w Mcconnell, Charles
Durango, Robert T. Adams, Alma
Murdoch, James Benson and Hyrum
Mcbride. In the case of the first named
the application was considered and laid
over for further considera ton. All of
the rest were refused. The board ad-
journed at Z o'clock until tomorrow at
7:3O p. M, when the remaining applica-
tiorls will be acted upon
SOMETHING OF A HUMORIST.
Were it not for the gravity of the fact
that Maurice A. Provost alias George
Parmallost, has five of his seven years
sentence staring him in, the face, his
letter to the board asking that he be
not compelled to remain in durance
vie any longer, might have been con-
Sldered by the gentlemen authorized by
law to grant pardons, as the utterances
of 6. humorist written for their especial
dedication. He was convicted at Provo
on a charge of burglary and sentenced
on March 5, 1894 to seven years.
III his application the erstwhile
wrong doer represents that he is a
French Canadian; that at AN early age
he married against the wishes of his
brides parents who proceeded to per-
secute him to the extent that he was
driven to drink; that it was during a
period of mental alteration dut to ex-
ces;sive recourse to alcoholic stimulant
to drown his sorrow that he discovered
he was sorely in need of shoes; that he
found 1t impossible to earn sufficient
money to Stake his thirst and buy shoes
both, so he had decided when a con-
venient opportunity offered to procure
the latter from a shoe store hardly to
the saloon wherein he deposited his
money with John Barleycorn and COM
parry; that even them he would not
now be where he is had the proprietor
OF the aforesaid shoe store been more
careful and have more securely fasten-
ed his front door; that even further
had the policemen ON the beat been
doing their duty instead of drinking
beer and enjoying themselves at that
selfsame saloon, he would not have
dared to try the door which gave way
with the gentlest push imaginable. But