Cement Jail

The Cement Jail was constructed in the 1920s, based on Sanborn Maps it was not present in the town in 1920. According to OHS the jail was built before 1930, giving us a nine year period to assume construction.

The Cement Jail is one with many a tales, ones that include many different heists.

Another Cyrilian In Jail Delivery Here August 16, 1934 – Residents of Cyril are making merry at the expense of the local jail. For the third time in the experience of C.C. Ruff, local officer, the jail has been broken and an inmate living at Cyril liberated. For some reason those Cyril boys think the Cement jail is made to be broken out of, and they do not miss the opportunity doing so.

Monday night Ruff placed a Cyril man, whose name he did not learn at the time in the local jail. That was at about eight o’clock and sometime after ten o’clock that night someone on the outside applied force to the lock and broke it into many pieces. When Ruff went to visit his prisoner late at night he had skipped out.

Cement Man Faces Jail Break Count July 13, 1938 – Charge of breaking and escaping jail was lodged the fore part of the week in information filed by James F. Hanger, assistant county attorney before Oris L. Barney, county judge, naming Dee Reynolds of Cement as the defendant.

Albert Burns, Cement Officer, who was the complaining witness in the charge told Hanger that on Monday, July 11 Reynolds broke out of the Cement jail, where he was being held on a charge of being drunk in a public place and reckless driving.

When Reynolds told his story to the county sheriff here Tuesday morning he avoided mention of the jail-breaking incident but admitted that he “might have been driving recklessly.”

Cement Jail Break Count Ordered Dismissed Here July 15, 1938 – Charge of escaping from jail was ordered dismissed Thursday afternoon against Dee Reynolds, Cement man, following the filing of motion by county attorney’s office wherein it was stated that the prosecution was without sufficient evidence.

Reynolds was arrested by Albert Burns, Cement officer, and the complaint against him pointed out that he broke out of the Cement jail where he was being held to answer charges of being drunk in public and reckless driving.

Gallery Below of Cement Jail

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