Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-09-06 | Page 6 | Innocent Man in Jail

INNOCENT MAN IN JAIL Prisoner in City Jail Says Ho CommUted Com-mUted Crime for Which Another An-other Is Suffering rAfter Y r-After being found guilty of vagrancy In the city court yesterday afternoon a man named C IT Williams who lit l as dieted to Lhe use of morphine open J a conversation with Jailor Kimball during the of which course he told or a crime he committed out at Reno Nov Williams became crazed for norm of too dope and when It had been given to him he said there was a man confined In the Jail at Reno for the crime that he committed The crime h e Mid waij that of blowing up and robbing a eafr > > and hf was unwilling that the Innocent man should longer suffer for his crime I The matter was laid before Chief Paoi and he wrote a letter to the authorities I of Reno asking whether the story was true and If it proves to be as Lcwla has told he will be held for the officer from Nevada Ills thirty days Urn given him by Judge Diehl will hold i him long enough for the Nevada per pie to get here