Show THE GRAND JURY FOR THE SEPTEMBER TERM CLOSES ITS LABORS AND IS discharged yesterday afternoon the grand lury for the september term of the third raade made its final report thirteen edn indictments were filed one of these being for fon stealing government property one for polygamy four for unlawful cohabitation and seven under the laws of the territory the following is the report which includes the findings of the committees who visited the penitentiary and the city jail to the eon bon charles 8 S zone zane judge of the third judicial district territory of utah tile the grand jury paneled empanel em edat at the september term of court herewith submit mi lt kneir final report we have been in session twenty seven days and have examined eighty seven cases including filly bilty seven cases under the laws of the united states and thirty cases under the laws of this territory ot of these we have ignored twenty two cases and found and returned indictments in forty eight cases under the laws ot the united states and seventeen under the laws of this territory the cases of the people vs george geatz charged with grand larceny and oftie people vs william hood charged with an assault with a 4 deadly weapon were not submitted to us in time to be examined we recommend that said cases together with the cases of the united states vs W E R bassett and the united states vs S R marks and the united states vs gideon mumford all charged with the crime of unlawful I 1 cohabitation be submitted by the court cour t to the next grand jury committees of your grand jury have examined into the condition of the united states and the city jail at salt lake city and the reports of said committees showing the results ot of such examination are here un unto to annexed and made part hereof we have returned indictments against the principals in a ring or prize tight but have failed to indict any of the other parti parties oes implicated for the following reasons the law under which these indictments were found has not been heretofore enforced and we believe there cheri was very generally a mis understanding in the community as to its application to public exhibitions and sparring matches under these circumstances we deemed it sufficient by indicting inducting indic ting the principals to direct attention to the existence of a law which includes include all exhibitions of the above character one hyrum newton was duly subpoenaed to appear before us as a witness he has failed to appear and we request that he be be attached and dealt with as the facts may warrant having concluded our labors we ask to be finally discharged RICHARD mackintosh foreman THE THE richard mackintosh esq foreman of the grand jury united states district court PEAR DEAR SIR sin the undersigner undersigned under signed being a subcommittee sub committee appointed by you to report on the condition of the penitentiary tent iary lary beg leave to report that in company with other members of the grand jury we visited the penitentiary on november and found every thing in as good order as could be expected under the circumstances many of the jury visited the place for the first time and we are empowered to make the statement that were it not that the united states appropriation had bad been made which is expected to place the penitentiary on a much better more modern anddore and more civilized basis we would feel like making a very stringent criticism on the accommodations provided ro and the general antique look loot of the place we desire it to be understood I 1 however that this statement shall not be held as reflecting on the present resent management of the institution vor jor as far as our investigation extended and as carefully care lully as we could examine into the state of affairs the present managers and officers are doing everything in their power to utilize the poor poo to look after the welfare of the inmates and to give a modern look to what abat is really a relic of barbarism we examined into the question of clothing food kitchen and buiak buak arrangements and find no complaint to make beyond what is implied in the above limitations we were tappy to find a school under way inside the prison walls conducted by a mr johnson Job a convict and largely attended by the inmates 1 we cannot speak tot tob highly of the value of such a school particularly to the younger convicts the united states has ajust a just pride inthe in the fact that measures of prison reform and prison advancement if we may so speak are receiving earnest attention throughout 9 the country and we trust th that at the school and other similar agencies for P bood will be fostered and maintained as far as may be possible we were advised of the case ot of a richard hood now awaiting trial and temporarily lodged at the he penitentiary who is a terrible sufferer from epileptic his he has had eighteen inside of a couple of months and it would seem that an asylum was a more fit place for him than a prison the warden ca concurs in this idea but what asyl could receive him or what relief could be extended him we are not prepared to say repeating that we find and everything at this penitentiary in as satisfactory a condition aa the limited semi barbar ous ong style of the institution permits we remain rema in yours etc MARK 8 SEVERANCE JOSEPH E JAMES AND ERsoy THE CITY TAIL to the foreman and members of the grand jury we your committee ap aej hinted to investigate vesti gate the condition of of the salt lake city jail would respectfully submit that the cells are kept in as good condition as the character of the in mates inmates will allow the building well warmed and ventilated and the food given the prisoners of good quality and sufficient lent amount jos PD JAB ANDERSON CUKIS the request of tik grand jury with reference to hyrum newton the defaulting witness in the case of S B smith who is in custody on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon was granted and an attachment issued returnable today to day the jurors brors were then discharged from further service |