The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-19
State Beard Extends Clemency
to Number of COnvicts in
Penitentiary.
B0THA MUST WAIT FOR
ANOTHER NINETY DAYS
Wife-Slayer's Chances of Re-
lease Are Said to Be Grow
ing Smaller.

The State penltentiary will lose its
chef on the LIST Of March. next year.
The present incumbent, to whom is due
the excellence of the cookery at that
hostelry, and who is Justly popular with
the boarders, is one George W Tully,
who was sentenced TO seven wears for
! robbery on October 3, 1904. The State
Board OF Pardons took into account his
service as chef and the fact that he
has been hard and faithful worker.
Though for the efficiency Of the service
they would like 10 retain him, still
tho members think he deserves CON
sideration. and will let him 90 next
spring, when another gets in training
for the Job
81 humbly petition you, that if YOU
deem 1T proper after Investigation, to
free my son, that he may 90 back to
his friends and work among them to
support his two little children, whom
he dearly loves, wrote mother in
Kane county to the Board. The letter,
which was backed by petition from
hundred of his neigbbors, induced the
members TO take favorably into con
sideration the case of Laurence n,
on July l, eight months before him sen
tence expires. Unlawful love is re.
spons,ble for his receiving a sentence
OF eighteen months in the penitentiary
on September 6, 1906. He became too
fond of one, Florence Bullock, a young
inmate Of his household, and his wife
not only secured divorce, but he was
afterwards convicted of a statutory
offence.
After the divorce Florence refused 10
marry him, and his wife married again,
and handed over the two little children
To his care. The mother says that when
be was out on bail he worked hard.
and gave his money to the support of
his wife and children. She also blames
the motlher-in-law, for much Of the
trouble between himself and wife, as
well as his temporary infatuation for
the Bullock woman. The neighbors
testified to his general good character
Clifford Il. Averett who was SEN
fenced in Washington county, April 10,
1905, to three years in the penitentiary
for assault with deadly weapon re
ceived a full~pardon. lie has been out
on parole since October ). 1905.
Peter Hanson, convicted Of compile
ity in the slot machine robberies in
Sandy, and sentenced IN the District
Court to six months in the county Jail
was pardoned.
Grand w. Freshwater, who was SEN
fenced in Salt Lake county TO three
years on July 3, 1906, was Jet out on
parole. He was guilty of statutory
offeuse.
Harry Montgomery from Grand coun-
ty, sentenced July. 1905, to five years
for statutory ofrense, had much in
his favor and was convicted on such
Slight evidence that the Board granted
a pardon.
The Board was not so merciful in all
the cases heard Saturday, Fred Wood,
sentenced from Salt Lake, July Is,
1906. to ten years for burglary, asked
the petition of Robert r. Roberts, given
three years on August 26, 1906 for lar
ceny
Ray Morrison, given three years in
the District Court at Salt Lake, April
Z, 1905. for burglary, will also have TO
serve his term out j. T, Piper sent up
from Emery county for the same
offense, was also refused a pardon.
C. NJ. Kifner q cripple, sentenced to
eight years in the penitentiary in the
District Court of Weber county in Sep
tember, 1905. petItioned for pardon,
There was jail-brealling charge also
against him, and the circumstances
were not such as TO warrant the grant
ing of such.
denied. A. A. Gerker, given six months
in the county Jail on December T. last,
for petit larceny, will have TO stay
with Sheriff Emery until his time is
up.
Brigham Lyons, given ten years IN
the Sanpete court for a statutory
oflense May 3, 1908, was denied parole.
Insolence in the penitentiary will not
be treated lightly Joseph Pagney, who
petitioned to get back his credit marks
which he lost for insolence to his iailers
was refused,
The case of "Dutch Charlie Botha,
the San Juan county murderer, was
not so much sympathy for dutch
Charlie" since certain facts have tran
spired as there was while ago, when
few seutimentalists endeavored to
urge the unwritten law in his case,
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