Show Jail Never Dull Moment All in a Knights Knight's work That's what they're saying in Davis County these days THE KNIGHTS are deputies of or the the Davis Davis C Sheriffs Sheriff's Office The work has been a little bit unusual lately A CASE In point was related by Deputy Jan Cunningham re re- re It was early Monday morning and it was time for one of the prisoners that we were holding for the weekend to get out and go to work the deputy ob observed observed observed ob- ob served and he couldn't get him out It seems the cellblock door was Jammed I I FOUND that someone had put a coat hanger on the outside bars to the door and when I tried to o open n the cellblock the hanger was caught against the bars and the doorway and just plain up jammed-up the works So I had to get a trustee to help me open the cellblock so the prisoner could get out to go to work FOLKS ARE calling it a Jail Jailbreak jailbreak break with a new twist Deputy Ken Payne recalled art ark arrest and booking he will nev never never i forget SITTING back with a grin on his face Ken said The other night we booked a prisoner on a theft charge but when I tell ya about the prison prison- er ere see what I mean It was late and I was sleepy but when I saw the prisoner they brought in I woke up in a big hurry burry SHE HE WAS NEARLY six They had to put a double chain on him he was big He weighed pounds Why if he would have made one step out of line he could have crushed us YOU KNOW Im I'm really thankful for cooperative pris pris- And there is the case of the spoon swallower SERGEANT LEON LEO Johnson stated We Ve had a fellow in here from Missouri on a bad check charge who told us he had swallowed swallowed swallowed lowed one of our spoons at supper supper supper sup sup- per time We took him over to the South Davis is County Hospital at Bountiful and sure enough he had a spoon in hi him m. m THE NEXT day he told us he had swallowed another spoon He Ile told us that he had passed it TH THE SERGEANT said that after the man had made restitution restitution restitution tion on his charge they passed him out the front door and told him not to come back to Utah |