Show pris prisoners boners wife and kiddies well cared for here later information which came to the reaper indicates that the editorial printed in last weeks issue under the title charity at home did not give all the facts in the case and might seem to indicate that the sheriffs office had bad been lacking in the spirit of humaneness apparently the woman with the two babies who followed her husband here when he was lodl lodged ed in the county jail on a 9 charge of issuing worthless checks brought most of her trouble on herself ana was in the habit of taking all the charity she could get sheriff fairbanks when he ar rested her husband in nevada found the family destitute and living in squalor and while he was unable und under er the law to furnish transportation to the family of the prisoner he succeeded in making arrangements arrangement to get her and the children to tho the home of her parents in huntington utah the woman however used this money to follow her husband to richfield and when she got here there was no legal way of caring for her since there was no charge on which she could be lodged in the county jail especially when she had the two small children with her deputy A 0 hopkins tried to procure lodging for her in one of the local auto camps but because of her filthy condition this was refused the only resource then was to put her in iii the boiler room where mrs hopkins brought her and the children a nice home cooked dinner of meat and vegetables and continued to feed her as long as she was here and staying in the court house city officials found her out on the court house lawn after council meeting that evening where she had moved up from the boiler room which is frankly a rather undesirable place for a woman and children to sleep on a warm nie ht the whole matter was unusual and deplorable but the reaper is always eager to render credit wherever due and it is plain that the city county and relief society did all that was humanly possible to take rare care of the stranded transients in this case the sheriff finally himself took her to her husbands folks in farmington utah the children were given clothing and food and the mother r outfitted in good clothing |