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Show DEVINE 8EES DANGER IN PRE8ENT CONDITION OF THE COUNTY JAIL Ogden, Feb. 24. As a result of a recent discovery that prisonors had planned a wholesale delivery, Sheriff T. A. DoVlno will again call tho attention at-tention of the county commissioners to the condition of tho county Jail. Because tho masonry wall across tho cast end of the Jail la in such a condition that It cannot withstand moro than a few hours work on the part of a prisoner, the sheriff ha requested that a steel wall be erect-od erect-od on tho lnsldo. Tho commissioners havo taken no action toward safeguarding safe-guarding tho weak wall. According to Sheriff DoVlno and his deputies, it is unsafe to lenvo ono or moro prisoners outsldo of tho cell houso mora than ono hour at a tlmo. About onohnlf of tho prisoners woro tint in tho main corridor from 3:30 o'clock til 0 o'clock last evening. In that short tlmo Frank Smith and Jack Smith had dug a nolo large onough to Insert nn arm about ton inches into tho wall'. Tho only Implements Im-plements UECd woro pieces of a broken brok-en blcyclo wrench. To nllay discovery discov-ery of tho holo, tho masonry romov-od romov-od from tho opening was deposited On top of tho coll houso or tank. |