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Convicts Rewarded for Their Fight Against Blaze at RiotDenver Jan. 14.—As a roward lor their services in helping light-the fire which 'swept a coll house and the dining room at the state poniteu-uf hiring the convict riot last October, Governor Adame today allowed 28 prisoners 100 days extra time to apply against their sentences. Tho oamo amount of time was made a mutter of record in the cases of seven life tenters In case their acntences are ever commuted.The executive order issued by the governor follows. u ,“The following named prisoners, confined Ju .the atato peuitsndary, having voluntarily performed valuable service lor the state by protecting stnto property during the flot on. Oct.3 and 4, 1920, in fighting tho fire that-was raging in some of the institutional buildings. «rQ deoniod entitled to executive recognition and reward. Jpr such services. Jt is therefore. ordered that the respective minimum sentences of such prisonous be anti each thereof is hereby allowed a deduction, of 100 days from each of said mini-mum sentences/' *The prisoners, rewarded aro: •William Lafferty, llfo sentence, ihilrder, Weld county; Earl Combs, life seufenco, murder, El Paso; Tom Dosco. life sentence,, murder, Puobio; .Cinrcnbe: Spang, 2(V to,25 years, robbery, Larimer;. CIttf.ord Benton, life .sentence, murder. Mesa; Cbarl38 Chero, llfo sentence, robbery, Denver; Horace Corbett, liCd sentence, murder, Denvor; Ray ThomaB, 15 to ^0 years, robbery, Douglas; John woods, life•ver; E. M. Henderson, 4 to 6 years, forgery, Chaffee; A. K Baxley, 6 to 7 years,, burglary, Pueblo; Manuel Ghrizas, life sentence, murder, Routt;I. M. Parks, 5 to 7 years, cou. game,: Denver; Boberi Crandall, 20 to 30 -years, robbery, Denver; G. W. Haya-lett, 6 to 7 yoara, burglary, Denver?' Weimer D.. Nutt, 9 to 10 years, fatse I pretense, Denver;'Roy Siinonson, 3 to, 6\ years, forgery, Denver;- George, Poulas, 5 to 10 years, larceny, Denver, t John McGinuis, 2% to 7 years, larceny, Lincoln; A. C. Hossroan, e to 11 j years, con. game, El Paso;, Louis Loo Butler, 7 to -8 years, larceny aa bailee, | Dehvor: B- C. Couvtllon, 2 to 3 years, | con game, Denver; Boyd W. Miller, 10j to 12 years, robbory, JofferBoa; J. Knox, 9 to 10 years, larceny, Pueblo; Joa Ash, 12 to 14 years, robbery, Don-Re“ar¥lt;m 10 M v«nt^ —” — r nison: Glen Stitt, life sentence, murder. Adams. tWallace Cftso, 8 to 10 years, robbery, Denver; W. C, York, life sentence. statutory offonso, Logan; Parrel Yohe, 12 to 20 ycard, robbery, Don-con. game, Araphoo; Lestor Mitchell, 3 to 5 years, burglary, Denver; Guy Garrison, 1 to 10 years, false pretense,, ^lmor; William Johnson, 8 to 12; «ara, statutory offcasts, Kiowa; and /. L. HazohVood, 6 to 7 years, burg* Logan.
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Greeley Daily Tribune
Greeley, Colorado, US
Tue, Jan 14, 1930
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