It this place the criminals prisons the debtor's prison and the Magistrate's Court are. Surrounded by one one inclosures having always in it two gates which are shut at night. The criminal prison has also on two sides a wall of its own, and in the wall another gate opposite to the front of the Court, at twenty-four yards distance, and within the general enclosure.
There are six cells attached to the Court for the temporary custody of prisoners. When a defendant has been convicted at the Court he is at once conveyed to the criminal prison and afterwards detained there by a Magistrate's warrant. The wards of the jail are in fact used for the same purpose as the cells usually attached to a police Office, the buildings having been thus arranged in proximity to avoid the expense of constructing cells.
A short time ago a defendant was convicted under a local Ordinance of an aggravated assault, and refusing to pay the fine imposed was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. The sheriff and jailor of the Court thereupon conveyed him without written warrant towards
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It this place the criminals
prisons the debtor's prison and the
Magistrate's Court are.
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Surrounded
by one
one inclosures having
always
in it two
gates which are
shut at night. The criminal prison
has also on two sides a wall of its
pwry,
and in
I
the wall another gate
opposite to the front of the (pourt, at twenty four yards distance, and :within the general enclosure.
There
are or-0
cells attached
to the Court for the temporary custody of prisoners. When a defendant has been convicted
at the Court he is at once
Conveyed to the criminal prison
A
and
afterwards detained there
by a Magistrate's warrant. The~
wards
of
the
he jail are in
for the same pumpose
& fact used
as the cells
: usually attached to a police Office,
the buildings having been thes
arr
rranged in proximity to avoid the expense of constricting cells.
A short lime
ago
a
defendant was convicted under a local Ordinance of an aggravated
assault, and
refusing to pay
the fine imposed was sentenced to a month's imprisonvient The scher and jailor of the Court thereupon conveyed
ed him
without written warrant towards
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