The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-21
PARDONS FOR FNF
Board Extends Clemency 70
State Prisoners.
S. W. MULBERRY is FRFF
DOING TWENTY YEARS Fop
MURDER,
Others Whose Applications Reea;vss
Favorable Consideration We.
Walter Farr, George WanIsss
Marion A. Brown and Samuel
Mathews.
5. W. MULBERRY IS FREE

FIVE prisoners now undergoing sen
tence in the state prison were vesfs-
Gay pardoned by the state board ~
pardons. They were Samuel w. Mn
berry, convicted Of murder. Vain
FAIR, burglar, and George War-.s.
Marion "A. Brown and Samuel ATarraus
serving sentence for the crime of al
sault to commit rape.
The crime of which Mulberry WAS
convicted at Provo on Feb. p. 1891. Vss
the killing Of h. Fullmer at Cra7-
Greek. Utah, for which act he was sem
fenced to twenty years i'm the penita7-
tiary. The reasons assigned by he
board in restoring the man to liberty
We're:
Because of the favorable recon-
incubation of the United States arr5r-
ney and his assistant. who prosecuted
the case; that it appears from their
statements to be very doubtful as 4,
whether the applicant was guilty of
more than manslaughter. for which Ea
has already paid the penalty. Becarsa
1t appears from the record that he was
Of former good character and Of a Quiet
and peaceable disposition; that durfrr
his long term of Imprisonment he has
conducted himself in an exemplary
manner, and that the ends of Justice
have been subserved, and because rf
the absence Of malice in the commits.
sion Of the crime"
Pardon For Farr.
Walter Farr, convicted on Sept IL
1893, at ogden and sentenced to one
year in the state prison, was granted a
pardon for the following reasons: "On
account Of the recommendation OF The
judge who tried the case and the al
tOrney who prosecuted; mitigating cir-
cumstanCes connected with the case.
the youth and former gOOd character
of the applicant, coupled with the fact
Of its being his first offense."
George Wanless and Marion a.
Brown, the two I.ehi boys who were
jointly convicted on Feb. 2. 1893. az
Provo, Of the crime Of assault with in
tent TO commit rape, and sentenced TO
three and five years respectively in the
state prison. were granted executive
clemency for the reasons that the judge
prosecuting attorney and all Of the ju-
rOTs in the case had filed recommend
tons TO that effect. and because of the
former good character Of and the eE-
IRENE youth Of the petitioners. and be-
cause the prOsecutTiX, who is repUtsd
to be of good character, requested the
pardOns.
Samuel Mathews was likewise par
dOned by the board on account Of rec
concentrations, taken in conjunction
with the mitigating circumstance con-
nected with the commission of the
crime and because Of the time that he
has already served. Mathews was con-
victed on Dec. %, 1895, at Coalville
Utah. Of a similar crime as in the two
previous cases and sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary-
Less Fortunate Applicants.
The less fortunate ones who made
application for paEdOns were as fol-
lows:
Orlando T. Mead, convicted on June
q, 1886, at Castle Dale, Utah, for the
crime of burglary, and sentenced 10
eight years in the Utah state prison;
application continued for one month.
Marion c. Thomas, convicted Nov. %
1899. at VeFnal, Utah, Of the crime OF
assault with a deadly weapon; appli.
cation denied.
George W. Jones, convicted on Oct
%. 1899, at Logan, Utah, Of adultery;
application denied. Sentence. one year
in the penitentiary.
Jens T. ROhde, convicted on Feb. O.
1899, at Brigham City, of adultery, and
sentenced to eighteen months in the
Utah state prison. case continued one
month.
Charles W. Ferguson, convicted on
Sept. Z, 1897, at Randolph, of the crime
Of burglary. and sentenced to four years
in the state prison; application for re-
hearing granted.
William S. Clark and Walter B.
Clark, jointly convicted on July Is, 1893,
at Coalville, of the crime of burglary
and sentenced to one year in the state
prison; application for rehearing de-
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