| Show GRAND JURY REPORT owing to the late hour at which the grand jury of the third district court handed banded in their report yesterday the NEWS nawa was waa able to give only a brief synopsis of the same below we reproduce the document in full to hon charles S zane judge third judicial district court your grand jury begs leave to submit the following report of its labors commencing work on february the grand jury has ban continued its iti sittings without interruption being engaged in all twenty five days of actual service during that time it has considered seven ty four cases fifty eight of which came from lower courts and sixteen on original complaint of this number fifty seven showed sufficient evidence to hold over for action of the court op on true bills the others were insufficient in our opinion and consequently were ignored we have examined in in all witnesses in those matters with which we were especially charged to make in g to vic ethe grand jury summoned before it such private individuals and officers as would be most cognizant of such offenses against the law we were unable to find sufficient evidence to justify us in holding parties over for t thial al much testimony was given I 1 en as to rumors and current belief ta but tv t of any direct evidence there was almost none whether this arose from the unwillingness to impart full and unreserved information on t the lie part of witnesses or whether the evils considered do not exist we are unable to judge the grand jury visited in a body the territorial penitentiary the county jail the city prison and the county poor hoos looft for the purpose of Inso inspecting wung the condition of theme theae public from the testimony of the inmates of the penitentiary we learn that the institution has improved since the visit of the last grand lury the fact still painfully impresses itself that the institution does not serve altogether the purpose intended thatis at hard work is a myth and not a reality very few of the prisoners are given labor though many would prefer aitto it to enforced idleness they are allowed to mingle and converse with each other and it would seem almost spurring them to form conspiracies for escape for this condition the management of the prison are not apparently to blame there his has been an attempt ma e to establish a tailoring establishment to manufacture the prisoners clothes A number of trusties sties were employed in gardening a but creditable aloyed le greenhouse is kept to furnish flowers lor for the chaper chapel and the ordinary avocations of coo cooking washing and cleaning cooking kint are performed by y the convicts more however is sadly needed A very desirable improvement sug suggested gestel by the marshal which we would heartily endorse is the extending of the building to fill out its southeast corner the room thus enclosed to be used tor lor a small shoe and tin shop manufacturing solely for the use of the prison and not to comp compete te with legitimate trades without the farming industry should also be pursued on a larger scale with these means of employment more rigorous discipline could be introduced and the institution made aglace a place of punishment instead of recreation and rest the sanitary condition around the prison closets needs improvement pro and better facilities for both bath ine ing should be introduced the county jail wai found to be in ex cellena condition and have no re emendation men dation to make the city prison is a relic of olden days and truly startling sr its cells facilities and arrangement suggest the barbarism of the middle ages rai her than the century cold narrow cells into which not a ray of daylight has haa ever reached make the visitor to this institution shudder udder oh even with the use of these forbidding dungeons the building insufficient to meet the demands of the c city atae the poor house bouse is another institution crying lor for enlargement public policy demands its removal to quarters more distant from the city with larger grounds ground and more capac capacious buildings at present the inmates wander to the city and those feeble minded and impoverished by age are compelled to mingle with the idiotic and diseased C E HAMMOND foreman |
