Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
USE OF PRISON
LABOR ON ROADS
URGED BY JURY
County Officials Commended
For Condition of Jail and y
Almshouse
"a TRUE BILLS FOUND
Work of Week Concluded
With Inspection of
County Property

! Commending the employment of
prisoners in the building and repair
or roads in the county the grand
jury at the January criminal court
sessions, in its report to the court
to-day, recommended that the prison
authorities should continue this
system.
During the last few months of
! 1918 about score of prisoners were
employed through the State High
way Department building a road
near Speeceville. Others serving
sentences were at work at the coun-
ty almshouse farm during the sum-
mer. .r..
The prisoner inspectors and those
in charge at the Jail, and the coun-
| ty poor directors and almshouse Of
| ficials are commended for the eX-
cellent conditions as found at these
institutions by the grand jurors.
President Judge George Kunkel,
when he received the report of the
grand jury, said that it was source
of much satisfaction to the taxpayers
of the county to know that the insti-
tutions where unfortunate persons
were housed were kept in sanitary
condition and properly managed.
t Judge Kunkel also commented
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prisoners and for the county also.
Officials Commended
During the present session of
court the jury considered Ill bills
of Indictment, of which "a were re-
turned to court and II ignored.
Speaking of the poor directors
and the prison inspectors the grand
jury said. We are pleased to re-
port we have visited and inspected
the county almshouse and find that
institution in good, clean and sani-
7 tary condition, and hereby COM
ment the authorities in charge of
said institution upon it's care, con-
duct and management.
I'VE have visited and inspected
the county prison and find it also to
be in excellent condition and eff
lciently conducted, We also commend
THE action of the prison authorities
for the EN- mployment of some of the
prisoners in the building and re-
4 pair of roads in the county. A con-
tinuance of this practice is greatly
to be desired and we so recon-
mend" &,
Heavy Sentences
With a record of three sentences
/ in the Dauphin county court and
also said to have served time on SEN
tences in Cumberland and Lancaster
county. James Savercool~was given
from three to five years in the peni-
tentiary by Judge Kunkel, when he
pleaded guilty to two charges of
breaking into the offices of the w. l..
Pike Shoe Company, Hummelstown,
on November 20 and December 10,
when he stole a typewriter, adding
machine, roll top desk, chair, type
writer table and filing case, valued
at $500. In 1909 Savercool was sent
to the Huntingdon reformatory;
1912 to the penitentiary for Is
months to three years, and in 1917
| to the county Jail for five months.
T. f. Fannasy. charged with con-
| Quoting a disorderly house at 107
| Washington street, was convicted.
He will be called for sentence jan
uary 81. Jean Martin, convicted of
being an inmate of the place, was
ordered to pay the costs of prosecu-
ton and fine of $35.
| A motion for a new trial will
probably be filed for William ID.
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