The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-25
BOARD OF PARl1
ACTS ON 1ENa
James y Kennedy, conri,J
Deadly Assault, Repr,,,',
Oy an Attorney.
THREE PARDONS GRlx
SIX CASES COM
Board Refuses TO Com.
Sentence; Will Meet /.
April 20. T

The State board Of mad
monthly meeting al tha
saturday All the memb,r
board Were present. Durin.
ing the board considered ~
or this number three
six continued and one for
was refused The case Of H.
nedy, convicted of assam, ,
y weapon, and sentenced /.
imprisoned by Judge RolsDr
Fourth district at Ogden epp ~,
a hne of $500 or remain !,
I'll the fine is paid at tbs r.,
a day. was represented ~
Gideon Snyder. y
Mr.. Snyder conten6s =.
tence of imprisonment 70, tSA' /,
was the maximum penalty ~
tense upon which the All! -
convicted. and that the rpYaa, ~pp'l'
legal authority to hold tho ha,a:, .'
yond the five wears. Tb;.p chi
expired. That the n,dam a :.
prisonment for nonpaymsns !,
illegal, for the reason W ,h.!
Partakes OF a civil indpn@s1, @
be collected by OWL nTonadH
The board of pardons did =
er the applicant 8 legal ripbl,
not sit as a court 10 cons3r
or try cases, but rather /.
OF mercy. tempered with hal.
qulre into the circurnstancM
petition and ascertain whsr
what cases the ends OF iss,;'
been subserved. The case
tinued sixty days, within ~:
1t Is understood. the annli,,.,
status will have been asesS,:
decision Of the courts bT f.
the habeas corpus route.
Disposition Of cus
Following ara the cases -.
by the board Saturday. and 4.
siJion of which was made ~ n
j. D. Sarks-Burglary: corr5
Third district court, Salt Iai.
sentenced January IS, 1905. 4
years IN the State prison; y
till next meeting; time eIcSr
81, 1907.
A pardon was granted Ia n
Long. who was serving a tsu.,.
tence for abortion: conyictA5
Third district court. His m
have expired March 90, 1907,
Daniel Bigelow drew a priu
He was sentenced from Wasatc.'
in the Fourth district 70 one h
the State S prison. on Deeen|
1905. In this case the board "a
imous in favoring a pardon. i
is about sixty.hve years Of al.
The case OF James KenuedT.
with o deo dly weapon. sentes'1
the Second district, for a tenn
years on September 20, 1901.
pay a fine of 300, was cont
sixty DAYS.
John W. ellison asked for
He was sentenced from the III
trict court for grand larceny ID
"a, 1905; case continued. 4
John Overson, convicted Of
larceny in the Fifth distrisi, :,
lard county, and sentenced q
1905, to FIVE years in Ststsf
was psrdoned The pardon Of q
was strongly opposed by ~
and Senator CalliSter. Trsl Jn
dester and District Attorney
both favored a pardon.
Communication wes refused n
OF Frank Edgingtou, for bufi11
fenced from the Third distn1
January IS. 1905, to two al1
years in States prison.
The following cases which ~
tinued from a former mest1|
taken up and considered: .
Harry Montgomery. for
asked Tor pardon. He was g
August 81, 1906. to two yean
onment. His case was conilDnt
April 20, 1907. II
Willard f. Gentry, convcfA
berry and sentenced from the w
rrict court September Is, 1900
IF two counts TO five years IN
prison, was an applicant for Pan
'ase was considered IN elsat
'ion and continued until Apm
Frank Wilson. convicted o.
With a deadly weapon, and =
rom the Fourth district ccuI'
Is. 1904. to FIVE years in the
iary, now out on parole. wsHrs
lon. His case was continue'
months.
The board adjourned to ns
N April 90. 4