Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-07-20
BOARD IF CONTROL
 RECOMMENDATIONS
Acts Favorably on Two Applications for Parole and One for Pardon. Louis Miller to Be Given Chance to Lead Useful Life.

There was meeting of the board oi control yesterday at which one appli cation for a pardon and two applica tions for parole were favorably acted upon and the papers will issue as soon as signed by the governor, says the Phoenix Republican. Action on the ease of William II. Sisson, mentioned in yesterdays paper, was deferred until q transcript of the record of the tri.ll can be furnished the board. The board also authorized the purchase of 600 feet of new three-ineh pipe to replace the old worn-out pipe utilized in the water. works plant at the asylum for the in, sane It also authorized the purchase of a bookcase at an expense not to ex, ceed $l00, for the office of the superin. tendent of public instruction.
 The pardon approved by the board is in behalf of Carmeon Mendibles, who was sent to the penitentiary from Co. chise county nineteen years ago for murder. He has served longer than any other man in the penitentiary and has had a good record all the time. He is now 5 years old. His pardon was asked for by a great many citizens Of Cochise county, who knew him before he committed the cirme, and who spea k well of him except for this single of fense. A letter from Superintendent Rynning also spoke favorably of him, as it did of the two other cases under consideration. Mendibles before going to the penitentiary was barber by trade.
 One of the applications for parole was in behalf of William Connors. a long term man who was in for mur. der committed iii Yavapai county anu who has but a few more years to serve. He is now 45 years old.
 The greatest interest here and in Prescott, however, centers about the other application for parole, in behalf of Louis C. Miller. As boy he was well known in Phoenix, and in Pres eott as a young man. He is now 37 years old and has been in the peniten- tiary ten years, or since June 2S, 1897. He was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life i'm prisonment, his sentence later being eommuted to twenty years. With cred its for good behavior this term would be shortened to twelve years, so he has under his sentence about two more years to serve.
 The unusual feature of Miller's ease is that be never killed anybody, his conviction being as an aeeomplice in a jail break during which another pris. oner killed man. The circumstances as related from memory are that lit. tie over ten years ago Miller was ar rested in Prescott for some offense that was trivial compared with the charge later made against him. While in the Prescott jail, either serving a jail sentence or awaiting trial in the district court, he joined in the plan of another prisoner awaiting trial for train robbery in Mohave county, to escape from jail. They managed to overpower the guards in some way and, arming themselves in the sheriff g office, started out of the front door of the Prescott courthouse. From the corridor they no. ticed that they were observed by a young Prescott man named Lee Norris, and Miller's companion, merely on the theory that dead men tell no tales, and not even in defense of his life as a fugitive from justice, fired and killed him. The two prisoners escaped and were at large for day or two, but were recaptured in the mountains and Miller's companion was later hanged in Prescott. Miller was tried and sent to the penitentiary for life.