The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-16
BOARD Of PARDONS
IN A LEN|ENT MOOD
Two Pardons, Two Paroles
and Two Communications
Granted to Prisoners.

The case of Harley Mewhinney, con.
victed OF murder In the first degree on
February II and. again on July l6
was continued yesterday by the board
Of pardons to the December meeting
Mewhinney was sentenced to be shot on
August 10. A request for communication
Of sentence to Life imprisonment was
again be taken up at the December ses.
sion of the state board of pardons,
which held its November meeting yes
terday.
John L. Deeds was pardoned by the
board at its meeting yesterday. Deeds
was convicted of petty larceny in the
third district court Of Salt Lake coun-
ty on August q and sentenced to SIX
months imprisonment IN the county
Jail The pardon was recommended by
the prosecuting attorney on the grounds
that while Deeds stole some iewelry
he was only an accomplice and that
there were eXtenuatIng circumstances
in connection with the case.
The case Of Will Moore, convicted
Of grand larceny in the Seventh dis
triet of Grand county on November !,
1916, and sentenced TO four years In
prison and who jumped his bail while
the case was pending an appeal, was
continued until the December meeting.
Edward Tanner, convicted of a statu.
tory offcnse in the Fourth district
court OF Utah county on October s.
1912, and sentenced TO one year in
prison, was pardoned. Tanner had
served his full sentence, but the par
don had the effect of immediately re.
storing his civil rights.
The case of George l.. Barnard, con,
victed in the Third district court of
Salt Lake county OF selling morphine
illegally and sentenced TO two years
in prison, was continued until the Janu.
airy meeting OF the board. Barnard
seeks pardon.
Ralph LaYhorn, convicted of a statu.
tory offeuse in the Fourth district court
OF Utah county and sentenced on Janu-
ary "a, 1913, to eighteen months in
prison, asked the board for q pardon. He
was granted parole.
@. r. Dalton, convicted Of statutory
offense in the Fifth district court Of
Iron county and sentenced on May 8,
1912, to thirty months, was granted a
parole
Parole was denied in the case OF
Robert A. Dean, convicted OF forgery
in the Fourth district court Of Uintah
county and sentenced on September l3
Of this year to an indeterminate sen
teuce OF from one 70 twenty years.
Parole was denied in the case OF
Frank A. Clark, convicted of highway
robbery in the Fourth district court OF
Utah county and sentenced on Novem.
Der 25, 1911, to seven years in prison.
For good behavior and on the recon-
nendation Of the district attorney Of the
Seventh judicial district OF Carbon
COUNTY. the two-year sentence of Viii
liam Reynolds. convicted on March 4,
1918, OF burglary in the third degree.
was eommuted 20 expire on April !,
1914.
r. A. Adams, convicted OF forgery in
the Third district court In Salt Lake
county and sentenced on April 80, 1913,
20 ore year in prison, will 90 free 20.
MORROW. On recommendation OF the
prison physician, who said that Adams
must 20 20 lower altitude on account
OF his health, MS sentence was com.
muted 20 expire November II.
Parole was denied willard Thompson.
sentenced 20 twenty years in the Third
district court in Salt Lake county on
June %, 1910, for robbery The Thomp-
son case had been continued from tie
October meeting.