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Show I SITTIJfG FOBiTHEIKPHOTOS. The Penitentiary Convict Face the Camera. Eighty-six more of the penitentiary convicts were photographed yesterday by Junius Young & Co., which almost completes com-pletes the list. A Democrat reporter was shown several of the proof sheets in Marshal Ireland's office this morning, and asked the Marshal what his object was in having all the prisoners photographed. photo-graphed. "It is a requirement of law, or custom," cus-tom," said Mr. Ireland, "to have in the Marshal's office a likeness of the convicts, con-victs, in order that in cases of escape the parties may be traced and recaptured by the aid of such facility. So tar as the Mormon prisoners are concerned, I entertain enter-tain very little apprehension about their running off; still I am not at liberty, of course, to discriminate." Some of the photos portray either an effort on the part of the individuals to assume a hideous expression, or else an existing ugliness that is surprising. Fred Welcome's face shows care and intense worriment, and deep furrows are rapidly transforming what was once regarded as a rather pleasant and intelligent physiognomy. physiog-nomy. S. H. B. Smith makes perhaps as remarkable a looking photo as any of them, and certainly does not impress one favorably ; in fact, in the language of a gentleman examining the photo, "he is a hard looking case." Rudger Clawson looks hale and hearty and does not seem to wear badly. He very much .resembles Dr. Nelden in features, as shown by the artist. Wallace Willey, who is known as a jovial, rougn ana reaay sort ot a lellow, is scarcely reeognizable and might be taken for old man Bender. A. W. Cooley looks thin and wasted, and Policeman Police-man Andrew Smith rather more natural in the presence of an unmolested beard and head of hair. The photographers encountered difficulty diffi-culty in getting some of the boys to pose satisfactorily, and several of them objected ob-jected to sitting at all for a photo. These parties were deprived of any option in the matter, however, and reluctantly took the posing chair, with a drooping head and sulky face. This fact may account ac-count in part for the absence of naturalness natural-ness and the other peculiarities. |