Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-21 | Page 3 | Jail's Oldest 'Trusty'

SALT LAKE LAWE SKETCHES UES Jails Jail's Oldest Trust I N No One Will Miss Me When Im I'm Gone Gone Says Joe Schweitzer Hes He's V Wrong rong Thirteen years is a long time to spend in jail jali but Joe Schweitzer whose address has liDS been city jail that length of time says ays fI E rl thought it was only five The time sure flies files It was back in 1921 some time in May he recalls that Judge Ben Johnson Johnson John John- Johnson son sentenced him to 90 days in the city jail on a R vagrancy cy charge Life began to get tough for Joe arou around d 1915 Pneumonia left him a He couldn't couldn t get work lorhe for he wasn't strong enough There was a time when Joe had a powerful I figure figured As a blacksmith he earned his living in Germany where he was born and later all aU over the western United States Then illness sapped his brawny muscles He obtained work peeling p potatoes and washing dishes for meals In Salt Lake restaurants and sleeping beneath an abandoned building build build- ing the ing-the the old police st station tion t to be exact Joe stilt still blesses the policeman who brought him out of that hole and into police court one morning W When en his 90 days days' had ended he went back to his hole Once more nore he came before before before be be- fore Judge Johnson who refused to sentence rice him because he said Joe was was no vagrant Jail Sergeant Joe Bush then came cameto cameto cameto to Joes Joe's rescue and fixed things so he could work for his board anc and meals Ive been beena a trusty for tor 13 years Joe said And Ive I've never left the place for more than a walk around round the block A jail cell has been a welcome home to this wanderer who finally found peace behind the bars Joe was born somewhere in Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many April 11 At the age ge o of 14 he began work in the in-the the blacksmith trade In 1887 he came cameto to the United Stat States s. s Since 1915 Salt Lake City has ha been his home I Joe Toe Schweitzer I ur l have no rio relatives he smiled No one one will will mourn mourn when Im I'm gone But Joe is wrong on that point He has won his way into the hearts of all who know him around the police police police po po- po- po lice station and city jail The uThe best worker weve we've got everybody emphatically states This will be my home until I pass on on said Joe Its a mighty nice place the city jail