The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-22
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Hate of Idaho Requires Home
for Feeble Minded and
Other UnfOrtunates.
hoard OF PARD0NS
DISCUSSES MATTER
Hen in Penitenhary Who
H Should Not Be Confined in
Such Institution.

5pecial to The Tribune
BOISE Ida, April 2l---The need OF
fhc state OF Idaho OF a school for feeble
minded. the growing demand for pardons
ror life termers and the tragic In life
ehoging the burden often falls heaviest
,n those who are related TO the person
.oncerned, were all brought into promi-
.ence during the meeting of the board OF
.ardons last week There were many dis
knpoin;ments when the board refused TO
rant pardons but others were gwen a
rain OF pleasure through pardon. parole
m hope of favorable action on their cases
ater.
II The board made the somewhat startling
fIscovery that Herbcr DeLong. IS years
n age, had been confined for four years
terving sentence for a statutory offense,
ommitted when he was a minor and
hardly eligible 10 service in criminal
Institution. His case was made the more
athletic through the fact that until
n short time ago the prisoner had
kept from his mother the fact he was In
Nison and she supposed he was employed
n the southern part Of the state as a
arm hand. DeLong was sent up from
thelley. The board cut his sentence down
10 eight years.
No Place for Feeble Minded,
4 William Calvert. committed for horse
Sfealing. was discovered by the board TO
.Ue feeble minded. Idaho has no feeble
minded institution and II WAS therefore
NECESSARY to send the young man TO the
'renitentiary regardless of the fact that
II was proven be was irresponsible. While
HE board deplored the condition that
,confronted il there appears no remedy
Until the recent law passed by the leg
Nature is carried into effect and The
feeble minded school located at some
,uoint twenty miles from Boise. Young
Ealvert served "A term In the Oregon PEN
'Hentlary fop burglary. His case. was ta-
Zen under advisement
Il The application OF Julius c. y. Pratt.
n horse thief sent UP from HALEY, for
'mrdon was denied. The Same action wos
ken with reference To the application
N Clyde Shafer sent up from NeZ Perez
>ounty for murder. Harry Burger. serv-
ng sentence for grand larceny, was de-
Inied a parole
/ No less than three life terlners asked
pr pardons but their cases were contin-
ted Joseph Sorrow. al one time q pros
Verous blacksmith OF Grangeville, Idaho
,ounty. was one OF these men, He Killed
lions table Williams and when sent TO
Prison left wife to support four chill
InTen by taking In washing. The board
necided 10 cut his sentence to fifteen
tears.
Levy Case Postponed.
Il GeorSe Levy Frenchlndn, serving
fcntence for the brutal murder of David
'heyy i'm 1901. was before the board for
,onsid deration but his case was postponed
tntil April q. There Is strenuous oppc-
Iltion 10 his pardon due 10 the ia"t The
,rinle is still fresh I'm the memory Of
Many. He was convicted on ciTcumstau-
tal evidence after one OF the TiJst SEN
iationa trials in the history ~ Boise
IJohn Mcdowell. the travelling sales
nan who convicted and sentenced TO
eryc the balance OF his natural life In
,.he penal institution, after noted trial
held at Coeur d'Alenc recently, was re-
eived In silence AT the penitentiary a
tE days ago. He protested his innocence
Nd declared later he expected to be la =
fen north Gor a new trial. The prisoner
vas photographed and taken 10 a cell
Nhere he viii be kept for several weeks
h order that he may become accus-
pmed To a life Of solitude. lie will be
ut 10 work after that,