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Show ROOM IN NEW JAIL WORRIES PRISONERS S .Mi . I I M i Come Declare Structure Is a New-Style New-Style "Sweat-Box" Into Which - ' Eteaxn Can Be Turned. Considerable speculation has , arisen in certain quarters concerning the probable ' use to which the little house on the sec- end floor of the new city jail will be put. This house Is about the slse of a large , dog kennel and the gabla comes directly under the roof gable. There are no openings open-ings from the corridor. - - 'One of the old timers who has become a pensioner on the city by reason of his frequent jati terms, said that the house was a sweat box where Jailer Kimball would put stubborn or perverse prisoners and then turn on the steam and sweat . them Into submission. Jailer Kimball denied that such was the Intended purpose of the building, and said that it was purposed to serve as a skylight, sky-light, so walled up that prisoners could . not escape from the corridor to the roof. |