The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-07

In this connection we reproduce
below a statement of grievances and
petition which was presented to tie
Marshal and Warden last Aug
ust. This paper was brought
to US soon afterwards by
one Southland, whose term of impris-
onment had expired, and who we I'M
derstood, smuggled it out of the Pen.
The document was not then published
because we desired first to verify it..
Indisputable evidence of its genuine
ness was soon obtained. 1t was al Q
learned that seventy of the prisoners
had signed the paper, and that they were,
with two or three exceptions, non-Mor-
mons, the Mormons not caring to of
fend the powers that were, by attach
ing there names to the truthful sta te-
ment, lest by so doing matters would
be made worse through the
Marshal giving broader play to
his vindictiveness. As punishment
on the signers of the protest against
such inhuman treatment as was COM
planned of, they were denied mali
privileges for Some weeks, and were
refused the privilege of seeing friends
who called on visiting days. The ar
raignment here made shows a more
brutal and inhuman condition of af-
fairs than has heretofore been alleged to
exist at the vilely kept den. 1t is
hardly TO be expected that any one will
offer to deny the truth of the allega-
tons, or offer to defend the Marshal in
connection with this showing.
UTAH PENITKSr1ARY,
August %, 1885.
To Marshal Ireland and Warden Dow:
Gentlealen-On entering the mess
room this morning, when breakfast was
announced one of the walters was
heard to say, 1.-The meat stinks, the
bread is sour and the spuds are not
cooked" and We will add that 80 per
cent, OF the whole vomity mess was re-
lacted and emptied back into the syill
tubs IN which it was brought. If this
condition of things occurred but once in
. while we would not complain:
but the Warden, at least. must
know that abont 0per cent. of Il emeat
and 70 per cent. of the potatoes and
bread have been rejected by your board
ers for number of months past. You
must know that the meat has been
many times full of maggots, and SO
Lutr. d hat, on entering the mess room
door, the stencil is almost sitting, and
that the soup (no doubt made from re-
1ecTed meat, but SO highly seasoned
n
character) has many times been
served to as full of maggots. You
must know that the old. rusty and
broken tin plates and cups (manv of
the cups being old fruit and oyster
cans) and spoons are not fit for a doc
10 use, and that the tubs fold wbiskv
and vinegar barrels sawed in fwI1 in |
which the feed" is sent in to us from
the kltcL en- are ut only for swill tubs |
and. cannot be cleansed. You know all |
TINS winch has been repeatedly brought |
N ire attention to our respectful nroo
lestations against the inhuman treat
ment than If We were so many hogs |
we need say nothing about the IN
Wholesome wsllwater which without any |
doubt, receives the percolati ms of the |
public privy vault deposits, but which |
the Warden, in ridicUling Opposition
TO the opinions of all the men in the |
corral, says is pure. good water, when
ne was asked to let US bring our drink
ing water for use during the day fire.. n
the outer well, as the TRUSTEES always
do when they come in from the outside
every evening, to drink through the
night.
Without kniYes or forks (Which were
taken from the prisoners for fear they
might dig down the prison walls with