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Show VandalsHarm Portraits , Of Ex-Mayors Six oil paintings of former Salt Lake City mayors hsvs been dam-Aged dam-Aged by slashes and bruises, It waa discovered Thursday. ' Located In the hall on the third floor of the city and county building, build-ing, the paintings date back to 1891 and are the official portraits of the city's chief executives. The matter waa reported to police po-lice Thursday by Thad B. Emery, ccemanager, city parks department depart-ment who termed the damage "deliberate and malicious vandalism." vandal-ism." It wss noticed Thursday morning by "J. H. Fine,' Janitor, who asserted the paintings were undamaged Tuesday when he dust-ed dust-ed them. Most seriously disfigured painting paint-ing was that of Ab Jenkins, mayor from 1939 to 1942. The canvas was punctured by a Jagged L-shaped L-shaped slash. The damage at first was believed to have been caused accidentally by a workman's ladder lad-der until injuries to the five other portraits were discovered. Other portraits with damage in-, dude those of Jedediah M. Grant mayor, 1851-57; Abraham O. Smoot 1857-68: Daniel H. Wells. 1666-76; R. N. Baskin, 1892-93, and Richard P. Morris, 1904-05. |