New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-07
rHB rOMBs AND ITS INMATES.
Rriery-waiter's Sentence Comms'cd
% Hnprisonment for Lifetime Fe'
male Dcp.rtmess-shsplin shnriot'
and PiCkpOckets.

HE phianthropist especially the novelist. the
hangman and the newspaper reporter There are many
prisons in NewYork but the Tombs is the best repre-
sentative of them ALL 1t is the largest 1t is OF nrchi
cecursl pretensions 1t recalls the penitenares Oh
what we know and imagine of Egypt the stronghods
of the Ptoemeys; 1t is moreover. Of great notoriety
mud its very name implies that who enters
fhers abandons hope. The exterior Of the edr
Zoe Is too familiar to require description
dhe Interior however is not well known at least to
taw.abiding citizens. You enter by the Leonard.st
ode and by the permission of the warden Mr.. Sutton.
Won have freedom to wander whithersoeyer you desire
up and down long gloomy galleries. which run by
grated doors. behind which many Of your felowmeny
ore carcerated-perhaps with the terrible doom
death hanging over their heads and only kept back by
b flamsnt Of the slightest texture The largest and
nost commodious portion Of the interior Is used as
THE MALE PRISONS.
You stand in the center Of corridor. the length OF
She prison as 1t runs on Cenrest with the roof for
peng and four tiers galleries extending around tine
sides. with plain iron railing to each.
! The upper tier is used for parties accused Of the
sllghtsr offences such petty larceny, drunkenness
and the gueess recreation of hscufs; the third tier
IL the receptacle of criminals Of deeper dyeor instance
Grand larceny incendarsm, assault and battery with
Intent to kill burglary The second tier is occupied
nv prisoners still more obnoxious in the eye of
xhe law and in point Of importance Is about the same
n, the first tier or ground floor. Here are confined
prisoners who awaiting transportation TO Sing
Soe. here also confined the condemned to death.
fhs restless criminals whose doom is yet uncertain
and the wretched who plead for mercy but whose
hearts are not yet made quito sick TO death With nope
deferred Among the several prisoners confined
here under sentence recent sentence OF death the
most rominent name is that Of
CHARLoH. WALTERS.
His orime-a most brutal murder--it will be recol-
-Iected was committed some two years ago. Ia q
moment Of drunken insanity be fell upon his Mistress
y wretobed woman who Obtained her livelihood oy a
life Of infsmy and stabbed her repeatedly until life
wa. extinct and was at last only driven from her life
less remains BY hard blows. lie was tried. and In
ppts Of the efforts Of his counsel Judge Stuart was
found guilty and condemned to death by the rope
Through the various complications Of the law. the exc
cution of tie sentence was deferred from time to
time until at last 1t definitely aud appar
xently irrevocably fixed TO take place two weeks from
To-day When through the persistent endeayors OF The
prisoners counsel a respite Of fourteen days was
granted the Ieprieve being bong into the prison but
few minutes before the period when. according to the
letter Of the law. the doomed man should be dangling
between the earth and the sky How those two weeks
have dragged on in the uncertain life OF Walters may
be better imagined than described. The granting
Of the respite perhaps Inspired lin win I"
2tf hope that sentence would be finally COMMITTED to
n more wearisorne but less violent punishment But
She agony which be has endured been fearful In the
extreme; II is imprinted in every hne OF hs hoio"
check in every wrinkle around the deep set where
misery has usnrped tie Irerogatve OF lime IN many
srow's foot deeply writ and his frame is emacia'ed
i,b confinement and two years weight Of care. The
appearance Of the prisoner has teen already described
In the columns Of this paper. His intellectual eounte
nance his geptemaIly besIing end generaleydenect t
refinement have been mentioned. and ncts!'hstanding
lhe remembrance Of his crime, lively sympathy has
been excited in tie minds Of large portion OF the
community VINO will consequently rejoice 70 learn that
his sentenee has been committed TO imprisonment for
Ise The intelligence was conveyed 10 the prisoner
Yesterday morning atout 10 o'clock. IT would be in
possible TO adequately cescrhe Is emotions Of 10Y IL
philosophical point OF view. lie voud probably be better
of II the first sentence haiiteen contaminated; but
men about to die ere rore 10 regard The matter per
aonaIly. Now he has hope feyond mere penance for
the future Good conduct the part OF tie prisoner
very frequently shortens the length Of imprisonment
and WALTERS may reasonably hope for apsrdon before
the vigor Of his manhood wasted in the penitentay
at Sing Sing. His mother and sister we're IN his cell
long time yesterday morning. and Of they
largely pariook Of bis joy at his escape from death.
The prisoner will leave the Iombs for his quarters
In few days. a.
BERNARD FRIERY.
This criminal under sentence of death for the nur.
der Of Harry Lazarus is confined in the second tier Of
cells. He also hos had biz life prolonged beyond the
appointed day by q stay Of proceedings. which was
granted by the Superior Court. He has hsen in
prison seven months. OF tlereabout. When saw
hin, friend was with him, and he appeared
20 be in excellent heath and pretty TAR
Epirits He entertains strong hopes that his
sentence will also be eommutsd. Quite cominu-
NEGATIVE IN regard to the crime Of which he has
been found guilty. he said that TIKI whole affair Of
der appeared to him dinlyreme,nbersd dream. He
was insane from the Of ardent spirits. Some friends
entered his chamber and lured him froin his bed; he
down stairs with FIRE in his blood and madness
his brahi th4evas roise, skrnish, fight and
he was in prison for murder. We believe nothing def
mite has been decided regard 70 caso yet It
." p fsb' X " before tho mex. term ana hds
- asAse n, .s-sf 10 .dsj! ~
..frf.. PoGEh Li-ys. zr go" b.,
s-on, aad nj a summousst the door.
dy,,yr. ari ~ hasasrhe fetrnrss gray haired
and white bearded, approaches tie TvnksTfe,f Oh
s'e'e which shut, him HON hope and life ana
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