Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-11-04 | Page 16 | Number of Prisoners in the Penitentiary

HOFPulH li THE PENITENTIARY Cells on tbc First Floor Anout Completed; Troublesome Convicts. Two hundred and eighty-one prisoners prison-ers aro now confined in tho Utah state prison, the high water mark in tho history his-tory of tho institution. This was reached last Sunday, and with a dozen more now prisoners even the now coll houso would fail to accommodate tho inmates. Tho colls on tho first floor of tho now cell houso will bo completed and j ready for uso in ten da3s. Then the construction of the second tier will bo begun to accommodate tho constantly increasing population of tbo prison. Threo of the most troublesome convicts con-victs are Joe Sullivan, Abe Majors and Richard Deming. Each has to be kept constantly locked up in solitary confinement con-finement on account of his desperate character. Their meals are Eorved to them in their cells and they aro allowed al-lowed tho freedom of the corridors only to batho. Sullivan is serving a. life sentenco for tho murder of Policeman Charles S. Ford. December 14 last; Majors Ma-jors is Forving a lifo sentence for the murder of Captain Brown of the Ogdon polico, and Deming, a former pal of Sullivan, is serving, a ton-year 3eutcnco for highway robbery-