Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-09-25
OUR COUNTY JAIL
THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT SlOtLD
RENDER IT SECURE.

Two Steel Cells and a Corridor for TN
Hard Cases-New Doors for. the OlC
Cells-The Windows Re.barred, aud
q Coat Of Concrete Laid on the Floor,
Yesterday afternoon Commissioners
Fuller and Warren examined the i'm.
provements just made at the count,
jail by the Puuly Jail Building and
Manufacturing Company of St. Louis,
Mo. The Commissioners were as.
sisted by William Hoskins, the black.
smith, who exported the work in the
presence of several citizens, includ.
ing ZINES reporter. Mr.. Hoskins
had an assortment of files such as are
used oy backsmiths and locksmiths.
with which he tested the bars and
plates. wherever desired to by the
Board or any one present. In everv
case the file would Gu. through the
paint and the outer edges of the
plates, but there it would stop, the
files refusing to "bite" or make any
impression whatever on the extra.
hardened steel. Messrs. Fuller, War.
rem, w. S. Mack, Lieutenant Baldwin.
and others who tried similar expert.
ments, met with like insuccess.
The work just done by the Pauly
Company on our Jail is intended to
render it SO secure that, in future,
nothing but the completely Of the
Ja'ler or sheriff will permit prisoners
to escape. This work consists Of
A DOUBLE IRON ENTRANCE DOOR TO
THE JAIL ROOM,
three feet wide and seven high. The
door, on the outside is of 3.l6ths.
inch plate, with t inch plates riveted
on to form panels. On the inside
the door is OF 2Aa-ncb bars, crossing
at right angles, aud riveted at inter.
sections with J inch rivets. Meshes
are 24x2! inches. The door has a
basket l2xlS inches, of I inch rou,
iron bars, set p inches from centres
into three semi circular bars 2xs
inches, and the round bars riy.ted in
to top and bottom 2xa-inch bars
The top and bottom of the basket
are to be covered with ! inch thick
plate. The doors are hung on heavy
strap hinges to 2lx2tx5.l6thsinch
angle iron frames, secured with strong
tumbler wrought iron locks. The
lock on the lattice or inside door is SO
made that it will lock or unlock from
both sides. Both frames are connect.
ed together with plate iron, thus
forming box frame. All the locks
have movable steel plates which drop
over the keyhole when the kew is
sithdrawn--thus rendering it i'm
possible for prisoners or others to take
IN Impression OF it or to reach it
With wires or anything less than the
proper key.
DOORS ON THE OLD CELLS.
The oil doors on the cells were of .
old plates Of boiler iron. The cells
we're IN consequence dark, dismal, I
M always full of noxious odors.
h- doors strained the couplings, and
we're insecure. Th"se have been re.
'iaced by ten door, of the wicket ,
'attern, of iron bars crossing at RIGHT
ogleS, and ri.etel at Intersections Il
fev are fastened with the regular +
All paddock. The bars are of III. ;
sual hveply Kin,ey make and j.,
'rehgth, and, like all the other plates 4
nd bars used in the Jail work, can.
o, he successfully attacked with files
: cold chiseIs.
BARS FOR WINDOW OPENINGS. Il
Some "a bars an inch thick md Il
'ur feet long have been pm, in the l
'ndow openings, which have been Sc
'ducel in size. These bars will rem. el
er 1t impossible for prisoners to
'cape by bending them in contrary "a