Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-01-26
SOMETHING TO
Be DOING.
Every Taxpayer in the County
Immensely Interested.
THE GRAND JURY REPORT.
Would Tear Down Old Jail-Build
New and New County In
firmary.

Mexico. Mo, January 20, 1911
70 the Honorable Circuit Court
of Audrain County, Missouri:
We. the Grand Jury of Audrain
County, Missouri, duly empan-
eled January 10th, 1911, and in
structed to investigate the condi-
tions of the county buildings, most
respectfully report that the Grand
Jury as a whole visited the county
iail and examined said building
carefully and found the same 10
be in a deplorable condition of de
cay. We found the walls of the
iail and residence to he badly
cracked and in an unsafe condi-
tion-the whole structure is held
together by iron rods passing
through same in many directions,
and we believe the whole building
would fall if said rods were re-
moved.
We found no suitable cells for
the confinement of female prison
ers or minors, nor is the jail large
enough for the demands of the in
crease of crime and the population
of the county even if it were a
safe building in which to cOnfinc
prisoners.
We. therefore, recommend that
said Jail be torn down and a new
safe. substantial and sanitary jail
house be built.
We believe the condition of the
whole Jail to be such that under
no consideration should it be re-
paired or added to, but should be
torn down and new building con
structed with separate apartments
for females, one for hardened
criminals and one for first offend
ers.
The sewer system of the jail
building is miserably defective
We found the Jail well and neatly
kept The sanitary conditions
being as good as the condition o.
the jail building and its construc-
ton will admit of.
We further report that we Wis.
tied the County Farm and County
Poor House and closely examined
into the conditions therein an
thereon and make the following
suggestions, tO-wit: We suggest
that the County Court retain al
land. We heartily endorse tn,
of the two hundred of acres O
present method of management
When We Visited the farm W,
found w. S. Hamilton to be al
efficient superintendent who ha,
the buildings and farm in as GOO
condition as circumstances woul;
permit. We also found that tn
inmates were well cared for ant
well treated. We found the pres
ent buildings wholly inadequat
for the present and future need
of the county infrmary and W
recommend that a new and moo
ern County lnfrmary be erected
We, therefore, recommend thG
the citizens of Audrain county eli
culate petitions asking the count
court to submit proposition
issue bonds to the amount {
Thirty-hve Thousand DollaI
(S35,00 } to run for five &
years or less, in the Judgment
the County Court, with which
build new and up-to-date ia
and a modern County Infrmar
the proposition to be voted upC
at special election to be held
soon as possible.
We further report to the c0u
that Allie Baker, Joe Bake
Neely IMcWhirt and Frank Die
son were duly and legally su
poenaed to appear before b
Grand Jury at this term of cou
and that they failed and neglect
and refused to respond to sa
subpoena and did not appear |
fore the Grand Jury, althou
having heen suhpoenaed in ann
time to have appeared.
Respectively submitted,
lbs II W;lIiaoS E,nraun,