The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-28
PARDON BOARD NOT
IN [ENIENT MOOD
Only One Nan Is Granted Par
don at Saturdays
Session.
RUSSELL EARL, F0RGER,
IS GIVEN A PAROLE
William Fishers Sentence for
Burglary COMMITTED; Other
Petitions.

Only one pardon was granted by the
state pardon board at its session Sat
urday. Ralph C. Mickey was the
lucky man. Mickey was a brakeman
on the Union Pacific and was charged
and convicted Of attempted robbery
He was convicted in Summit county
and sentenced June 24 Of this year TO
serve one year. There was evidence
to show that Mickey had permitted
hoboes TO ride III box cars and had
confiscated the money. Another man
was charged with the same offense,
stood trial, and was acquitted.
Russell Earl convicted of forgery IN
Cache county, and sentenced TO serve
two years in prison, was paroled. His
application for pardon was denied.
The sentence of William Fisher, con-
victed January q of this year of burg
larry in the second degree, was COM
mutcd. lie and another man were ac-
cused of stealing a quantity OF ale
from one OF the warehouses. The man
ager of the firm and others asked for
favorable action. The commutation is
TO December l.
Applications Denied
The applications were denied of
James McGovern, third degree burg
larry, ore year, sentenced April 6, 1909;
Frank Morris, attempted burglary, ten
years. Salt Lake. sentenced January
26, 1906; Charles Murdock, Box Elder
county, one year, sentenced March -
1909, Joseph Porter, second degree
burglary. Salt Lake, two years, SEN
fenced June 10. 1908; William Johnson,
years, sentenced May 6, 1908; Willis
Elliott, forgery, Millard county, three
years, sentenced September II, 1909;
stephen Quinn, second degree burglary,
Weber county, five years, sentenced
September l3 1907, William Reinhart,
grand larceny. Salt Lake, eighteen
months. sentenced March %, 1909;
George Laffey, second degree burglary,
Beaver county, five years, sentenced
April 2S, 1905
The petitions for rehearing Of the
applications of &. NJ. Eisner and George
a Williams were denied, and that OF
John L, Newton was granted
The application of T. Yomata, con-
victed of robbery in Salt Lake, SEN
fenced July 5, 1908, to three years,
was continued one month.
In executive session the application
was continued 10 the February meet
ing of Nick PruessIng. convicted of
forgery and sentenced on May 90 1908,
TO three years Imprisonment. The
same action was taken in the appli-
cation Of George Parry, convicted of
q statutory offcnse, and sentenced to
two years on each of two counts.
The application for Hyrum Wiseman,
adultery, sentenced January %, 1909,
10 three years, was continued to the
January meeting.
The application was continued thirty
days Of Howard A. Sorenson assault
with intent to commit murder. Box
Elder county. seven years, sentenced
October 20. 1906
The application for parole Of Rob
crt NJ. Smith, obtaining money under
a!se pretenses, Salt Lake, sentenced
September IA, 1909, TO six months in
the county jail, was continued thirty
DAYS.
John Peterson, convicted from We
her county Of felony. sentenced Sep
tember &c, 1907, was paroled.
Set for January Session.
The application of William Rees and
Harvey Bass, convicted in Weber
county on the charge of murder, was
set for the January session. Rees and
Bass were found guilty of having shot
and fatally wounded Fred McCabe in
Ogden November %. 1908. McCabe
and a companion, Leroy Madsen, were
returning home from dance when
they were ordered by two men to throw
up their hands. Before they could com
ply, one Of the men shot down McCabe
Afterwards he commanded him to uet