The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-13


four stationary wasa stand :, ETC., and every
witness is at liberty to take bath once day.
The 100 gallons of water he'll by the boiler
yielding copious supply. The interior
economy is very simple There are no printed
or writ en- rules or regulations. ThN4 INN ates
are expected to retire at nine o'clobk The
morning call is at half past six; break asst Is
ready at quarter. past seven The food Is m uon
better than most of the witnesses get at homie
and the dinner is frequently, during the pre-
sent season, finished off with a dessert of straw
berry pie and tapioca pudding. For amuse-
ments. check ers aud cards (Old Maids Game)
are the standard Occasionally an elegant
variety is introduced in a card game bearing
the attractive title of "Muggins," for which
regret to say, can neither fiud nor invent a
euphemism sufficiently expressive. To each
department Is attached yard hfty feet long and
thirty feet wide Perhaps at this season OF the
cav, 1 ought TO use the word garden--for peach
trees are blooming there and the women's
closure is sancti6ed by the presence of flowers
that colored music. Tue men use their enclo
sure for base. ball, and in betting and batting
endeavOr TO forget the tedium of the witness
box.
The great majority of the witnesses palliate,
destroy, and misapply every hing. Many OF
them, when the hour for their discharge com s,
refuse to leave. In the winter aud early part of
had been better housed and fed than In their
own homes and they implored to be kept out
OF the streets. The regular hours, the warm
beds, the sound sleep, the certain meals, the
comfortable, clock work life, was heaven to
them. AT one portion OF last winter, am0 &
the occupants were Mrs. Boone and her four
children who gained brief notoriety from an
all ged attempt on her part to poison
herself and family. One midnight the en-
tire party were discovered in different stages o.
night-gown, in a small bedroom in Amity
Place, uttering groans of various degrees of
magni' ude, and smelling of laudanum. This
Mrs. Boone is the mother OF the renowned
Boone Children who years ago starred success
fully through the States, and are now grown
up, married, and settled in England. Two of
these four younger children, who are left on
her hands, are extremely smart, and Daniel
and Myrtle recently played successful en-.
gsgement at the Theatre Comique here-a
place, by-the-by, not precisely adapted for ad.
ministering moral tonlcs TO people, young or
old.
One little romantic tradition which fingers
around this matter of fact House of Detention
and have done Some years ago. when the
house was very full, young will was de-
tanned there, who gave the name of Eugene.
he did not look more than seventeen, was ex-
tremely neat in person, and painfully modest
in manner. The man against whom he was
witness was charged with murder in the first
degree. The evidence which Eugene gave was
given with evident reluctance, and went
to exculpate his master. for he was
stated to be an apprentice to whom he was
grea tly attached. When the evening came and
the hour for retiring drew near, the officer in
charge of the house was surprised at Eugene's
app airing before him, and, with the most art
less persuasions, imploring to be put in a room
by himself The tears, the attitudes, the
blusl es, the good language with which this
appeal was made aroused the officers suspi
cion and he at once charged Eugene with being
a woman and having concealed her sex. The
poor creature tindit g she was discovered.
and that the very means she had rashy en-
ploytd to save the wretched criminals
lite would pre- badly hasten his doom,
fell upon her knees and i'm 5lored secresy.
This, OF course. could not be granted. She
was given in charge of the maron, and fur-
nishC with clothes proper to her sex. The dis
covery OF the imposture turned the scale against
the criminal, and destroyed his last chance
for Life. But before sentence was executed,
brain fever had done its work for Eugenia (for
such was her name) and when it left her. she
was found a hopeless maniac, ft candidate
tor the shades of BInghamton, where she was
consigned ALI BABA.