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BOOKMAKERS PARDONED AT NEW ORLEANS. New Orleans, La.. July 3. R. M. Sheffield and Placide Frigerio. bookmakers convicted of violating the Locke law in the Citj- Park track test, were yesterday recommended for a pardon in so far as prison sentences are concerned, by the state board of pardons. They will be pardoned by the governor, but will be required to pay their lines of 50 each. The case of W. W. Lyles, the other person convicted, was not considered as it comes from another division of the Criminal District Court and will not receive a hearing until the August terra. The petition for clemency in these cases was signed by former Federal Judge Eugene D. Saunders and others prominent in framing the Locke law and securing its passage, who contended that imprisonment could not make the measure stronger since the objects of the anti-race track element had been attained.
