The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-15
DONOVAN'S TRIAL SET.
INVESTIGATION WILL BEGIN on
THURSDAY MORNIG NEXT.
r. H. Norton Entertains the Fire
nnd Police Commissioners With
Long story About His Grievance
When Il Prisoner in the "BuS-
house'-ByrOn Crosby Resigns
From the Fire Department..

| There was nothing startling or new
in the session of the board of fire and
police commissioners last evening.
While Commissioner Noble has re-
turned from the north, Chairman Jen-
nings has gone away, and that of
course prevented the case Of Chief
Pratt against Captain Donovan from
coming up.
The subject of the approaching trial
of Donovan occupied some time and it
was finally decided that the investiga-
ton begin next Thursday morning at
II o'clock This was done so that the
trial might be completed before Com
missioner Noble leaves town again,
which he will do on Thursday night.
Immediately after the Donovan inves-
! tigation, the cases against Firemen
| Fitzgerald and Tremaine will come
| up.
| P H Norton appeared before the
/ board and recited a long tale of gr1eV-
! ances, in which Tailor kinbalf, some of
7 Norton'S fellow prisoners and sundry
/ guards figured as his prosecutors. He
had Just served five days for a drunk
and it was about the treatment he re-
ceived during the term that he COM
! planned. He said that at the time he
was arrested, he explained to the Of
ficers that he was sick and consequent
! ly unfit for hard work. His affliction
was apopleptic fits, but notwithstand-
ing this he was hitched up with the
chain gang and made to do service
Oh the public highways. The guards
made him shovel rocks all day, he
said, and then prObed him for not be-
ing able to keep pace with his fellow
laborers. Besides this he had had
slight alteration with Chinaman, in
which the guard had taken the Mon
gOlian's part and threatened him with
severe punishment if he did not keep
away from the Celestial.
The guard added the last straw
when he demanded that Norton carry
a large supply OF provisions. Norton
said he contended that he could not do
this on account of his fits, but the
guard was persistent and ended by
sending him back to solitary confine-
rIent for disobedience. He claimed
that Jailor kimbaH refused to give
him fire though he felt sick and the
weather was very frosty He only re-
piled to his request for a fire by put
ting him into another cell and also
putting him Oh slender ratiOnS. He
said that all he got for three days and
nights was two small pieces of bread
and can OF water three times a day.
Besides this there was not a blanket
in his cell and he had to sleep on the
bare floor. On the last day of his con-
finement Tom King, the trusty. pushed
a blanket under his door, while the
vigilant eye of the jailor was turned in
another direction. Had it not been
for this, Norton gave the board to I'M
derstand that the coroner would have
had a fine subject the next morning.
Norton finished his recital by stat
ing that he had been a guard at the
penitentiary, a cattle man in Wyoming
and a soldier in Minnesota The board
decided not to take any action in the
matter until Jailor KimbalI was given
a chance 20 relate his side of the story.
Byron Crosby, of the fire department
forestaEed what would have very like
ly been the action of the board in the
near future, by sending in his resig-
nation as a fireman. The resignation
was accepted by unanimous consent.
The expense for the month was read.
showing a total of 1878 The meet
ing was then adjourned until Thurs
day morning