Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-01
BURTON AND CUNNINGHAM.
,oxv the Dynamiters will Live the
remainder Of Their Lives
in Jail.

Chatham prison is composed of severa
nos each much in the shape of thu
T.l9 his Each wing is surrounded nv
- own walls Burton was put in one
, Cunningham in another. Douht,
VS. VS. thew will never see each other again
le tba officials are careful to sepsraff
a. @,aIs" while each wing has its own ex.
orTcise ground. One thousand two hun.
Irsd and odd convicts are their neighbors
~ nrasent. Each was assigned to a cell
." a. the third tier. The second is assigned
~ probationary graduates after nine
poonfbs' solitary service and the ground
tisr 70 the coarser and more vicious kind
Of convicts.
Each tier of cells is about seven feet
,onore and eight high, with clean.
rbitewashed walls and boarded floor,
A. the end, under a window through
mich a flood of light was streaming, was
obedstead of wooden plank, about eight
inches from the floor; pillow of the
Sanoe material about three inches HIGHER
4 Tug covers the plank and plank pillow.
Another rug is the top covering. The
chair resembles butchers chopping-
block. fastened by iron staples to the
aoor. 10 prevent the prisoners from
Lnocking the warders down with it. The
fable. a piece OF wood projecting from the
vail about foot and half square, COM
nIetes the furniture of the cell. Each
roiI has q small magnifying glass in the
wall, covered on the outside with clasp,
for the use of the sentinel or visiting
warder Their diet is equal to that given
TO the steerage passengers on any of the
transatlantic steamers. Three meals a
dav-for breakfast a basin of Cruel and
eight ounces Of prison baked bread for
supper basin OF cocoa and eleven
ounces OF bread. The dinner is really
substantial meal, varied every day with
steyed beef or mutton, suet pudding,
potatoes and soup twice a week, and in
addition five ounces OF bread each day.
The rules OF the prison are terribly
strict. The deputy governor said that he
could not specifically say how the two
dynamitards bore their first two days
confinement, but during the next nine
months they will see no one but the
warder nor talk with any one but the
doctor ii i'll, nor hear any voice except
that Of the chaplain or OF Rev w. Alton,
the prison Catholic priest. During this
time meals will be brought to them.
They have been set to pick oakum, and
are allowed to receive no letters nor
writing materials, newspapers or books,
and until next March Burton and Gun !
ningham will have no company but their
own thoughts, regrets and possible /
hopes.
After this period they viii be changed /
na lower tier and smaller beds, because /
they will then be put to outer work, /
While their cells become their bed rooms, |
O doubtless, if refractory, they will be /
@le navvies, digging and wheeling at !
q edocks. When the probation is ended |
Il igcan have after FIVE in the evening to !
81 fgho'clock, books of the prison library,
Hfh are excellent. When the days are |
nr small gasjet is provided within |
cell over a table. Your correspondent /
aned that although prisoners of state /
Md be treated precisely as short term !
yicts guilty of the usual statutory |
4tases, Burton and Cunningham will !
ably always remain in Chatham /