Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1905-07-14 | Page 5 | Convicts Strung to Wall

CONVICTS CONVICT 8 STRUNG TO WALL thirty inmates of state prison of utah go on strike salt lake city alleging that the tha food supplied to them by tho the state ot of utah was aas wholly inadequate to their needs poorly cooked and indifferent ly served about thirty convicts at tho the state prison went on strike wednesday morning iby midnight all but twenty had surrendered eighteen ot of tho the twenty were handcuffed to the walls ot of cells in the ioner lo 10 er tier ot of tho the south bouth cell house and two others place I 1 in tho the dark cells the twenty viere soc coalt k loss less and deprived ot of locomotive powers but they acia not it la is believed tho the men intended to anake an effort to escape but that tacy simply did not want vant t to work in addition to tho the discomfort ot of bo be ing band handcuffed cuffed to ilio lie wall and limit ed to bread and water diet the twenty mon men will loso lose all their I 1 copper or time deducted for good behavior in some cases this amounts to a considerable of time the warden has tho the power to remove it but not to restore it that being vested in the board of pardons