Show I EVANGELIST VISITS COUNTY BAS TILE Thomas Griffin Says He HeI I Was Once Petty Crook but Was Saved After a varied career during which he says he lie was a disinherited son BOD a abell abell abell bell boy in New York City hotels a petty crook a frontier gambler and drunkard Thomas Griffin an evangelist evangelist evan evan- gelist accompanied by his wife and three women evangel evangelists has arrived I In Salt Lako City rind and Is establishing a mission in South State The only reason renson I wn was never In Iii Jail was because I was not nol caught the said in describing his life Ufe previous to the time he reformed With his assistants Griffin visited the city Jail and held hold revival services ices which wInch seemed to interest the prison ers era He brought with him a collapsible ble church harmonium and the party sang hymns in which the prisoners Joined Later he held services in the tho county jail and declared that the Salt Lake county prison is the cleanest institution tion he be has ever evor visited and he lie says ho lie has bas seen many Jails The evangelist declares h ho he will devote devote de de- dc- dc vote considerable time to looking baking after atler the welfare of oc prisoners upon their discharge from the thc city and count county Jails or the state prison Ho Tie told the themen themen themen men yesterday of ot his assorted experiences experiences experiences and added that he understood them better than almost anybody else I I could by reason of or the fact that benad he be had nad been through the mill I I Most of or the prisoners promised to visit his mission when they are re released released re- re I leased and also promised to assist him in n his local mission work |