The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-18
LYONS SENTENCE
IS COMMITTED
Utah Convict Will Assist Of
fiCerS in Breaking Up Gang
of Wyoming DeSperadOeS.
OTHER CASES PASSED ON
S. C. SPENcER'S SENTENCE is
COMMITTED ONE DAY.

At the monthly meeting of the state
board of pardons. held yesterday,
twelve applications were on file for the
consideration Of the board. OF these
however, two were withdrawn. and OF
the remainder three received fun par
don, three received Communication, two
were denied and two continued.
Those pardoned were John b. Graves,
sentenced for forgery; Paul MOrr. SEN
fenced for perjury. and Marion Wood
who was sentenced under a charge OF
grand larceny. The petitions denied
were those of Albert Whitaker. serv-
ing n sentence for assault with a dead
~ weapon, and Alfred Andrus. who
was convicted Of a statutory offense.
The most important case coming be
fore the board was that Of Frank
Lyons. alias Il. E Stratton With
still nine years TO serve, his sentence
was committed. To take effect Monday.
so as to permit his being turned over
TO the Wyoming authorities.
Lyons is one of the criminally pic
turesqUe cOterie, and was one Of the
most desperate prisoners confined in
the Utah state prison. Apparently in
herently criminal, he has given trouble
10 the authorities Of the states Of Wyo-
ming and Utah for years past: has
Jul 1t lllt llItAu u regularly OfEdl-
lied bands Of desperadoes, and with
his cunning has slipped through the
meshes of the law several times
Lyons was convicted here of the rob-
berry of Il residence on Brigham street
in 1900. and. in view of his previous
record. was sentenced to thirteen years
in the state prison. After serving two
years, during which he had been a
model prisoner and had received the
highest In til al.
parole.
Fled From the State.
on the very night he was released
under parole. however he fled from the
state. In 1906 Lyons sneaked back into
salt Lake, and Immediately sought out
the woman who had been his paramour
before his arrest. With changed affec-
tons, however, and possibly with the
temptation of the offered reward. the
woman betrayed her former lover to
the prison officials. and he was again
taken into custody. He then had to
begin his sentence anew.
Some few weeks ago Sheriff Felix
Aston of Big Horn county. Wyoming
learned that Lyons was confined here
and this brought out the story of the
deeds committed by Lyons after he
broke his parole. and led to the com
mutation of the sentence which will
permit his delivery 10 the Wyoming
authorities
When Lyons broke his parole and
fed from Salt Lake. he went direct TO
the Big Horn country. where he or
ganized band Of horse thieves and
cattle rustlers. They piled their ne
1arious trade for some time. until Sher-
IN Aston got on their trail, and later.
in 1905, Lyons was captured by Aston
He succeeded in escaping however
and found a refuge in the "HoIe-in-the-
wall Several times afterward Sher-
IN Aston was convinced that LYONS
was still at work. but could not locate
him until he learned that he had been
captured here and was serving his SEN
tence.
Lyons Makes a Promise.
\ few days ago Sheriff Aston came
To Salt Lake and had a talk with both
Lyons and the members of the board
OF parOOnS Lyons. il is understood
promised Aston that ne would give
such information as would lead to the
breaking mp of one of WyOming's most
desperate gang Of cattle thieves. With
this in view, and since Wyoming holds
more serious charges against Lyons
th9n does Utah. il was considered hest
to commute his sentence and turn him
over TO Sheriff Aston.
Sherln Aston viii be here Monday
To secure his prisoner and take him to
Wyoming.
The petitions for clemency of A. s.
Hlghan, convicted of forgery and Leon
amp who was sentenced after being
FOUND guilty Of statutory Offense,
were withdrawn
The consideration of the applications
ot john Justett and NJ. j. Ryan was
continued for thirty days.
The terms of Charles H CalIand.
convicted of embezziement, and Sam
uel q. Spencer. serving for a statutory
ouense, were committed to take effect
one day before the expiration of their
terms. Both men will be released next
month.