The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-28
VISITED THE CITY JAIL,
AN INSPECTION BY FIVE CITY
COUNCILMEN.
They Are Not Favorably Impressed
With the Bastile-Colored Women
Fight-Police Notes.

Councilmen Robertson, Romney, Diehl,
Margetts and Weller visited the city Jail
yesterday and were not favorably i'm
pressed with the condition of it, In fact,
the city Jail has many times been char
acterized as a disgrace to any civilized
community. 1t is old and dirty, insecure,
poorly ventilated and so dark that it is
almost impossible to see in the main cell,
even at midday. The main cell is a small
room, and at times as many as 40 and 50
men have been crowded within its walls.
At night the prisoners lie around on the
! floor on dirty quilts and so close together
that it is impossible to cross the room
without stepping on some of them.
The sanitary condition of the building
is horrible. and especially on the men 5
side. The women : side is not much bet
ter, but on account of the few women,
compared to the number of men, who oc-
cuDy 1t, 1t Is in somewhat better condi-
ton. Several times already have prison
ers broken jail, and it is not a hard job
Tor them to get out at any time. On ac-
count of the humane law which is now in
force, the prisoners are kept locked up
all day in that one ROOM The law does
not permit them 10 work, and they lie
around in the dusky hlthineSs of the Jail
from day to day, waiting for their time to
expire.
The city council has at last decided to
eXpend $500 in improving the sanitary con-
dition of the Jail. The police court room
is to be papered, the ceiling calcimined
and new linoleum placed upon the floor.
Fifty dollars has been appropriated for
all the work, exclusive of the linoleum,
and ii is expected that work viii soon be-
gin on the court room and Jail.
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Last night about o'clock word was
received that a drunken brawl WAS being
engaged in by a number of colOred women
on Franklin avenue. Officers Pack and
Miner were soon on the scene and cap
tured two of the contestants. Pack ar
Conn
Green, better known as Mrs. McAfee. The
latter was angry and did not intend to go
to jail if she could help it, and fought
Miner saVagely. Lizzie is a large, pow
erful woman, and she made things lively
for the officer for a while. but was finally
subdued and taken TO the station Both
women We're charged with disturbing the
peace There was third woman in the
tight but she got away before the officers
reached the place.
G. D. Lallier of San Antonio, Tex. was
stopped the other day when he attempted
to leave town. He. it appears, had OBJ
tanned money on two drafts of SIS each.
and the persons to whom he gave them
became alarmed, fearing that the drafts
were worthless. The checks were drawn
on a firm at Houston. Tex and the men
here who caShed them did not wish to
have Lallier leave the city until it was
Lallier consented to remain in town until
they We're heard from, so he is not under
arrest.
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A search warrant was issued yesterday
from the police court to search the
premises of Lille Evans for a coat alleged
to have been taken from former inmate
of her house. The warrant was read to
Miss Evans, who then produced the coat
saying that she had kept il because May
Hovey owed her $780, May denied owing
ner that amount, and stated that she
owed only $50. The coat was taken to the
police station pending an investigation of
the case.
W. Duget, of 45S East Fourth South.
to the police yesterday that the
following named articles were stolen from
him. One level, two saws, one steel
square. one plane one chisel, one hand
axe, one screw driver, a pair of gloves,
one pickaXe, one shovel and a small tool
box.
The patrol wagon and an officer was
called to the corner of Seventh South and
Third West streets last night to arrest a
gang of young hoodlums who Were Great
ing a disturbance there, but the offenders
We're not to be found. II was then learned
that a dance was in progress in a hall
at the place and the boys had amused
themselves looking in the windows max
ing fun of the dancers and otherwise
disturbing the party
]. A. Short was arrested last evening
by officer Chase for drunkenness. When
the officer found him he was lying on
the street sound asleep and snoring
audibly. Short started to unite his horse
which was standing near, but fell before
he reached the animal.
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Lewd women forfeited $50 in bail yester-
day.
Ex-Policaman Yokum starts for Klon-
dixie today in company with L. C.. Kar-
rick who has been in the country be-
BY the first of March
Kate. the S-year-old daughter of Desk
Sergeant Jim Adams is very i'll. She
has been taken with pneumonia and was
n a very serious condition last night.
Officer Carey presented the police force
with a box of fine cigars yesterday. the ]
occasion being the entrance of a 12-pound /
1-ounce baby girl into his family.