Show COMPLAIN OP OF theia THEIR BOARD jail birds are not pleased with their accommodations the following I 1 communication was received from a trio of prisoner pris coli confined fined hi the county jail and can be taken for wl 1 at it is worth honorable gentlemen of the tile jury we the prisoners of the weber county jail ail do make this appeal to you to make an investigation 0 of f the food that ie is ehen given eh en to prisoners ill ili the above ahme named jail bv by sheriff bellia P we have written the hon judge miner ili in regard to the food and do not know whether he recognized the letter or not butay but as yet et we have bave not received any answer and now ow we do not ant believe t the lie letter ette ever rever left the sheriffs slie riffa olice it was written february 24 1893 and contained a full account of the manner ili in which we have been treated by the sheriff since last november from 1 what we can learn the county pays for three meals a day lay for its prisoners which we have never received since sincel we have lave been beon here we set get sometimes one meal and two lunches lun chee breakfast comos comes at tit about 0 30 or 10 in ill the morning and ana what they call dinner comes about 3 clock in the afternoon and the lunch which cornea conics between 5 and G 6 p m on several occasion occasions lias has been two doughnuts and these two doughnuts were supposed to laet last from front 2 I 1 p in until breakfast next morning if bilat that ie to what weber county ie is payin for we will say no more bu but if it is nop nofa then of course courm we expect expect to fet ret what tile they are paying for wo 0 o would d not have made an appeal to judge miner or to you gentlemen of the jury but we sent a couple of potes notes to the house and the tile next morn ing for breakfast wo we got the bread amil for the tile safety of tile public wo we will also havo to call your attention to the sheriffs trusty up ebaire who is a crin lill al of t the he lowest type according to 0 ilia his own statement ho been in in nine nine or ten tell di different floront jails between salt lake rort portland land and ban sax francisco and isan ia an c cx X conrid con vid of flip the utah penitentiary ary and at the present time is is doing six jor for shooting a man through both leg logo goes ces about town both day lay and night if tl eliat at is is what lie was sentenced for there ie is no use having a sheriff in the county the public I 1 c Is is in just st as safe without a sheriff at all when I 1 th alie e worst criminals are allowed to run among the citizens at leisure II 11 it is 28 not the sheriffs duty to keep criminale criminals locked looked in the county jail what is is aiki hi duty if there ia is any necessity of so doing tho the undersigned can call testify to the maine hoping vou will rive give this matter your anost careful consideration ration wo remain respectfully the prisoners it it spencer Wil william liani D D smith |