| Show TORTURED IN PRISON henry cassidy was released from jail friday morning having completed his hie term ut of six months mod aba to which he was sentenced tor for petit larceny by the justice of the peace ot of sandy bandy precinct he came to this office today and told the story which the NEWS biinte he gives his account in an earnest manner and it is ie published because the columns of this paper are open to any who appear tobaie to have just cau cause sefor for complaint and it in respectful language space will be gladly given for explanation on the part of the officers if ibey desire to make any to the public mr cassidy was consigned to the jail on the 26 tn ot of lost last february he was then in ID good health he says and weighed about pounds today hla his appearance indicates anything but buta a healthful condition his weight being about 25 pounds lose lees than at the date ol of his him incarceration cassidy s statement is as follows follow when I 1 was sent gent to jail the food we were getting was bad the meat was wag putrid though the broad bread was good the prisoners got sick on the food they were allowed only ton ten minutes exercise at meala and then only in a limited space that was wag insufficient and made them weak I 1 made complaint time and time again as did others but we got no redress on one occasion I 1 became riotous at the trea t ment I 1 was receiving I 1 told the j llor hill about it hebold he told me to fo shut epand called me a vile name I 1 called him one back he then said you come out of here he was going to put me in the d dun u n geonard geo nand I 1 told him I 1 would not come finally with thea the assistance si stance of albright and Sulli sullivan hill got me out I 1 was sick at the time and that was the reasons reabon re resisted re as I 1 did not want to go down this was some time in march they took me down into the dungeon they knew I 1 WM sick but did not seem tj care fur for that thai I 1 was kept in the dungeon two days during that time I 1 was very riotous I 1 had bad no placa to sleep except on the stone floor there was waa not a blanket not even a board to lie its down on the weather was very cold and I 1 had only a pair of overa overalls llop drawers and shirt I 1 was fed on bread and water the broad bread coming comine only twice a day dav they brought three pieces at each meal but I 1 was so ill I 1 could not even eat that at the end of two days I 1 was taken out and put back in the oel cell aft after this time I 1 said to mr hill would you le be kind enough to allow me g little more exercise as I 1 am sick rick s he ha replied no you get more exercise now than etian you ever had 93 8 3 we got on relief and things went on as an before I 1 complained in ny DY times about ex eal arcise and at last hill told me he would put pat me in the cooler q the dungeon agaid and called me n vile name as he is in the habit ot 01 doigg to the prisoner at this time I 1 to him he would not put me in the cl cooler but he be did I 1 was riotous by shouting and making a notes io in the cell they the called me upstairs to the domeng de d apartment part ment i and there hill anti and albright put band handcuffs cuffs on me they fastened the handcuffs to the top of i door and hung bung me in that position about three hours I 1 shouted and screeched and the sheriff 0 oma to noe me saying you ayou 1 ive been listening to you 3 enough ill fand fadd out your history long you and youil stay here rhen he took the broom and add beat me over the back breaking the handle bandle A AS a he ha was wa a fa striking me he ordered me to shut UD but I 1 kept shouting lie he got ther other broom and clubbed we me with the tha handle till that broke also I 1 tried to defend myself and to in doing so kicked albright Albrig bt who got a washboard and struck me they tried to 10 stifle criess cries so othey they would not be heard my mv in the street by putting a blanket over the window this wee was not dot sufficient or so they put a gag in my mouth ahta was a piece of rubber hose which W waa its crowded into my mouth and tied with a piece of string around my bead after doing this they left me for about 4 aff fifteen minutes and I 1 worked g on one of the handcuffs off and then broke it by b wrenching it in the iron bars when hill and albright came back th they brought a log leg iron ey or oregon bo boot 01 t put nut it on my foot and took me to tc the dun goon geon when came hill and geoege allbright who is night jailer took me out of the dungeon to the basement under the and cage chained me to a post this was done by hat fastening ening my wrists behind me with the hs ha and then connecting with a chain to an iron post poat then they took tb the e hose boas and turned a stream of water on me albright was wae the one who inflicted the punishment and hill atod and watched they kept the stream playing on me about fifteen minutes minute eW when hen I 1 pleaded with them to stop they would turn the water into my bouth mouth they laughed at me swearing and calling me vile names and aa saying y ing they bad a way of maki making ng such toughs as me as quiet as a child I 1 became unconscious two or three times while they were playing on me after they got through hosing boring w me they took the handcuffs off of bour boune 4 were wars drenched but not mv ray clothes that fajt they V took me clothes and threw me into in my wet again I 1 begged and dungeon the them to give me some with pleaded S clothing baying 68 ying I 1 would catob catch cold dry and nd die deif if I 1 was put in in that ate they only laughed at me and state I 1 in I 1 shrew in after got thought throw me clothes tor for bring me some they would that mean as they sd believe I 1 did not inhuman would be so eo as to were S leave tiley fliey me in such a state elate but they did I 1 waited about live five hours and could the wet clot clothing clotting bing any longer Ss not ant bear very sick ick and began to leel feel turned I 1 NA loth off swish then I 1 took my es feverish walked as ra rapidly eidly as aa I 1 cou could id u up p an and u and sown dungeon to try and get down the BO 80 sick bick that I 1 hardly I 1 was ae warm realized w what bat I 1 was doing next morning fook was brought to mt down by the wall ol of crouched and I 1 condition I 1 asked ocesina nude the cell in a I 1 sick clothes saying was again for dry wear those I 1 had but not dot and could laughed at atme me and albright said they before we get through well fix you jo matters went ou on thus thug for with you vou the he end of which time two cf tiny offing by became dry and I 1 put it my clothing i kept in the dungeon was on knotner again I 1 three days in all that mat days day another taken back to time and was then my cell all right lor for a couple of along I 1 rot got after this except for or exercise about weeks which I 1 continued to complain I 1 was waa again redress but got bot no threatened by hill with punishment not dot submit to I 1 would and I 1 told him it 11 the sheriff eo came talking to a prisoner and was money matters I 1 called bout some and tried to explain him to me ines over treatment he shut me off to him my fix well saying ayling ayou yo you ya in about two hours albright came I 1 in I 1 in about that time taken down by him and and I 1 was hill to the bosom baa ement ant and again subjected to hosing the water was waa turned albright about the same as on OB me by before I 1 told toad them I 1 du not deserve and while the water such euch treatment was wag playing on me I 1 prayed to the lord iu to soften their hearts that bey aey cruel they only would not too be so laughed at mass me and ad said they would either kill or cure me they put we me in the dungeon again in my wet clothes which I 1 re removed moved as before I 1 was waa la in the dark hole about two bays this time afterwards afterward when I 1 thought of the he brutal treatment I 1 had bad been git getting ing I 1 and did not care grow grew very angry what I 1 did I 1 acted mean to the guards because of what was done to me and which I 1 knew I 1 did not net deserve I 1 kept on complaining about the exercise and ad about the badi meat as all the he other prisoners did though none of f them spoke out as I 1 did didas as they seemed to be afraid af raid to do so about a month after the second hosing hoeing when I 1 complained they abul we me off as usual this was on a saturday evening and when hill applied epithets to me 11 I 1 also called him names we wrangled quite a bit and then be told me he would fix me by hosing hill and albright took me to toe the hosing place and made me strip all my clothes off they chained me tu to the post as am before and albright held the hose arain again he kept the stream of cold water on me for fully twenty minutes I 1 was wars about used up anti and wished I 1 was dead I 1 was wag partially out or of my mind that time they d did 1 d not put me in the dungeon they told me to put my clothes on and because I 1 could not do it in my exhausted condition as quickly as they thought I 1 should they threatened to repeat the hosing but did not do so I 1 wap then put back in my cell I 1 was quite sick alck ani and was delirious and raved next morning I 1 was thinking of what bad been done and grow grew wild and broke eight window panes I 1 wa 4 was put back in my cell celi I 1 made inside a noise shouting anti and slinging singing I 1 did not fully realize whist I 1 was doing as I 1 was wait oft my head bead deputy joe obreen and hid put handcuff on me is to take lao tu to the dungeon and to hose me I 1 knew what was coming and aad I 1 resisted as ab desperately as i 1 could this was waa the tb resistance I 1 ever uttered offered obrien took a club aud and hit bit me on the back of i the neck rendering me unconscious the next thing I 1 anew I 1 was chained to the post and was being hosed by obrien who me worse than dw diu albright Albrig nt I 1 had part of my clothes ou that time they had tried tu to take them off but it was wag too much work I 1 was nohea till 1 was insensible again i do not know how long the next I 1 knew I 1 was lying to in atio dungeon with my wet overalls and shin on obrien was there and told we me I 1 would have to stay in ft a day fur every pane of glass I 1 lind had broken As on the former occasions there was no bedding nothing but the bare cold atone floor I 1 was left in there the full eight days and fed on bread and water while there albright and hul hill frequently visited rue they made tun fun of me A bright was always taunting me and once said we dont care if you do die we well III get 16 15 for your stiff and then we can have a blowout 11 8 since ince then I 1 have never been put in the dungeon as there was a change made about out that time in the treatment ol of the prisoners they got better meat and more exercise and now they are fairly treated tuis morning when I 1 was released hill said to 0 me that I 1 had better got get out of town or I 1 would be arrested tat sheriff offered to send me to ogden but I 1 did not care to go I 1 told hill about a week ago that I 1 would forgive them all for what they bad done but I 1 concluded in ID my own mind to tell it so the public would know what bad had been golub un if I 1 could glet get the opportunity when to in prison I 1 tried several times to get word out by letters but they were always intercepted I 1 expect to leave lea ve this part ot of the country but bat I 1 have maje up my mind to lead an honest life in the future 1 I henry cassidy being duly sworn do say that the foregoing statement made by me la in true HENRY HENBY CASSIDY subscribed and sworn to before me tuis I 1 day ot August 1893 JOHN A EVANS ORAL notary public I 1 my commission expires january that the public way may arrive at a con elusion whether or not cassidy Caa Cass sidy idya state ment meat 1 made out of revenge or a dislike for the jail officers it may be well to state that at a bout about the time of the last occurrence of hosing noted by him there were rumors of prisoners in the county jail being III treated and members of the county court made laqui inquiries into the matter the investigation was conducted quietly and the facts that were brought to the knowledge of the court were not cot made A NEWS representative applied for the information and one of the selectmen replied rep lieu we have decided not to give this thing out unless the grand jury should take it up it to Is a d n bad thing about stinking meat and hanging a prisoner up by the hands tripping stripping him and turning the hose on him and putting men la in the sweat box but the sheriff has promised to do better so we weve ave concluded to let the thida KO go this time unless it should happen again as because of the sup I 1 solon rc of the facts they were not then given cassidy now comes out with his version of the affair sheriff mcqueen anti anil his enterprising deputies admit that what henry cassidy Cae sidy the ex county convict stated in last evenings NEWS in relation to the inhuman treatment to which he was subjected was true the sheriff is quoted in this morn mora ing ings inga s tribune as saying in response to questions put by a reporter tf of that paper you can say for me that I 1 did punish him with a broom handle and had the hose turned on him and confined him in a dark cell P also he lies when he says I 1 kept the hose on him for ten minutes I 1 kept it on him for an hour and would have kept it on him longer had he not bot promised prom leed to behave himself he got no BO more than he deserved aud just what other prisoners will get if they do not dot obey the rules which are not any too strict 2 deputy joe obrien when spoken to by a representative regarding the matter last even stated with a characteristic grin and a decided irish accent yes res we did give him b 1 we turned the hose on him and wet him through and through but instead of letting the water run or on him for ten or twenty minutes we allowed it to run for two hours the a of a b dese deserved eved more than he got if I 1 had had my way he would have been hanged banged by the wrists until it was wall necessary to send for a physician three or four hours later a NEWS reporter met the doughty joe and again asked him if he be bad actually hit big cassioy as the latter claimed it i nd he replied yes you bet bat I 1 hit bit him and hit bit him hard bard but not with a club I 1 gave it to him in the back of the head bead as hard bard as I 1 know knew how the devil bit me on the hand like jibe a dog and I 1 thought I 1 might get hydrophobia I 1 wanted to get even with him 00 obrien tays fays he be was so badly bitten that thai he was compelled to go to a doctor lor for treatment the discrepancy an all to the time the cold water was allowed to run on cassidy is 18 easily accounted for as the latter says he be became unconscious at the expiration of ten or twenty min utes and therefore does not doubt the truthfulness of what the sheriff says when he fie admits that the stream played on him for an hour or what minion obrien says gays when he be deci declares alres I 1 the operation lasted two hours it shows one thing conclusively ively and that is that the picture of prison punishment was not overdrawn by the convict himself |
