Show THURSDAY ii story of a fueling in hie penitentiary jail crating ends la th citti daiil tait A pter miller he attilli lie frozen feet is at the comity jail peter miller the loung man who had each a terrible experience at the sweat box in the penitentiary at sill lake during january of ia now at the county jail having been brought ap from the pen to stand trial on a charge of burglary in this city A reporter v THE visited him in his cell yesterday and learned froin him a tale of the buffering he at the pen and cost the warden 0 S L brown hia place he gave his version of the affair as tollof it was in january the new building was being put up and we were kept locked up tue food we had to eat was of the worst kind the meat beunk and the bread was BO frozen that we could not fink our teeth into it when they brought in our breakfast I 1 took the piece of bread and put it on the batove to thaw it out eo that I 1 could eat it olsen a man employed there wanted to know what I 1 put i he bread there for as no one was cook on that booie I 1 told him that it was not any of L n b ii i eps as be was not dunnink run the place ite then threw my bread into the coal bos lie was eating a goad beefsteak at the time and drink inn hia coffee all of I 1 envied when he threw the bread away I 1 struck him once with my fist and laid him oot the next morning january warden brown came to the door and wanted to see me I 1 made myself known and he told me that he wanted me I 1 was in my shirt sleeves and asked him to let me get my coat as it was pretty cold he told me with an oath that I 1 bother abbot the coat he would fix me this time if be had to kill me I 1 told him that was all right I 1 afterwards learned that oleen bad said that I 1 sneaked up behind him and hit him with a hammer this they could not prove however frough they tried to indict me for it I 1 was taken out cold as it was and put into what was known as the sweat boar the floor was covered with a couple of inches of ice and I 1 agali et being put in there but in I 1 went in order to keep warm I 1 marched around and jumped continually cutting my bead on the corners of the box the room being too email to move about this i kept up till I 1 was exhausted and bad to lie down and take what followed I 1 appealed to those who came to feed roe instead of cettina cetti nc s doctor as I 1 told them to when I 1 knew that I 1 was gradually freezing to death having lost all feeling in my feet they bronchi me a cup of water nd a piece of frozen bread in that box I 1 stayed from eaily in the morning of january till late at january with the thermometer down to 23 below zero when I 1 wa finally taken out when I 1 was too far gone to speak almost I 1 was taken to the stove and aa soon as the heat struck me I 1 knew no more the result is that I 1 am a cripple for life baying this he untied the bandage on his foot and showed the condition it was in the foot was swollen and cut and full of running matter no amputation bad yet been made but be fears that it will be necessary before be will have any rest miller was accused of at salt lake city and then came to ogden where it ia claimed he stole some guns and pistols from george brownings gun chop on washington before browning brothers united their interests te rests he then went to logan and there broke into a bouse taking with them the plunder miller and larf bards mooney and preston went into idaho where they were ar rested and brought down to salt lake and placed in the county jail awaiting trial there they broke jail and booney and preston escaped miller wag caught owin to being such a broad man that he had to take off hia clothes to get through the hole they had made and wan in the act of putting on his clothes again when the officers came upon him the committed in salt lake was on the of july 1886 stealing a coat the trial was held here and on december ath 1888 lie was sentenced to six years on the of fence committed at logan and three years on that at salt lake he ia now here to answer to the charge of robbing george brownings gun store the complaint in this cae states that the luence was committed on the h day of july 1880 the same day on which the talt t alt lake of lence on which he was convicted and sentenced is said to have been committed the case will awaken couite a little interest among the pub |