The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-01
Ta SAB STORY OF HARRY WHARTON.
What the Girl Dedricks Thinks Upon Mrs.
Wharton's Guilt-Mr. Van Ness
T'A Wants To Be Let Alone.
The Excitement at Baltimore and
ess Annapolis.

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examinations Of chemists and pnysicians. Let me
Gay Of the year:-A yellow brick ediace, salsGxred
yp0r :. narrow suburban street Of Annapolis the
gable pointing toward the persons who approach It,
and the caves overnanglug the pavement
.i W SUCH IS THE JAIL.
II is gaunt. sleep-r0ofed, three story building,
with an additional story and o half In the gable.
Ars Whart0n,s cell Is the corner OF the second
tory, nearest the persons approaching 1t from the
usntre OF the city. All the windows OF the jail are
RON barred. At the side OF the jail Is yellow
brick van with o wooden wicket In It, on which Is
Ne Mgn, .qilson Yard" The door OF the jail Is In
NE made Of the building. and ringing bell. dirty
booking, low-pfed warden appears IN shirt sleeves,
With hts breeohes Embraced, so that two or three
inches Of his dirty Shirt proudes below the vest He
wears hard common shoes, unblacked no collar, and
Tie SKIN on his face is Of greasy sallow, which in
licates Of inward and outward uncleanllness. II
yo1 60 to the jail at odd times you Will ind this
chap perched upon stool playing cracked fiddle
70 the wnlte and black whelps who squeeze their
noses against the barred doors OF their cells hear
the supposed melodious sounds and thus while
sway the monotony OF Incarceration. II anything
could be more mOurnful than prison solitude 1t
must be the sound OF such fiddle as this, making
captivity hideous This ty-halred, dirty-skinned,
darty-apparened warden, who conveys The impress
men that &C some time or another he himself served
. low months In this jail under other than 0ncial
terms Is the being must let out and let In day
after day the
MELANCHOLY, nIDDLE-AGED WOMAN
- good birth, favorable education and happy
Secaa associations, who now stands charged with
grimes which, II she committed tnem would give
ser rank with the Borgias and BrinvillIers Of the
post To tins old Jail the former pet Of society
comes every afternoon In little old CAP drawn by
two lean horses driven by q dull-eyed negro,
scanuy attired. She descends at the door of the
iat, which is swinging open for her by this coarse
locking wardcn. and she passes down the
broad hail OF the jan until she reaches
he middle, when, turning to the right, she
passes mp night Of bare stairs takes
the middle hail OF the second story and enters the
unan door which admits her to her criminal home.
more she can but vaguely hear the dancing, OBJ
soeniy and Ie4uent quarres Of the low folks
around Annapolis, black and white, who are put
N this prison, several In CELL for habitua drunk
snesa lighting ana petty crimes, vagrancy not the
least frequent. These near associates the woman
must apprehend the Dloated faces of the inebriaes
and she leer against the grated wickets Of men
song lost to good social impulses or restraints
Hegrcsses and mean white women who have never
Known The sweets Of good companlonshlp or family
sulrure. Maryland jails proverbially wretched,
bad as any not directed the solitary
~ private principle. TO horrors of incarceration
Mere are superadded the familiarity and strain.
ing 1nqutstiveness OF Migrants. thieves and peace
breakers, who never arose 10 the dignity Of crime
or descended 10 the deception OF decent p0y-
erty. To this squad jail one Of the most approved
fayorites OF BALTIMORE society must repair every
AFTERNOON, and who can tell what sensations come
" her refined spirit at the oathsome contact with
snese village paupers, whose gaping wonder is II
Iusts. f''f~'0
MRS wHARToN's CELL
W Aoout Twelve feet square, whltewashed, the nO0r
covered with o red figured ingram carpet; two
WINDOWS, opening upon suburban street, down
and at The end oil the room, opposite the door OF
entrance. ~ a small, vanished mantel piece, sup
H sn CLOCK ana confronted by commonsncet
the windows, Is a common pine wardrobe stained
= tape, on which tine daily meals are taken, and
Q wasnstand OF the cottage Sort decorated with q
PLAN porcei ain basin aud pitcher. The bed stands
IN corner opposite the wardrobe and behind the
white coverlid. Between the windows Is a colt age
bureau, on which are some few articles placed by
Of the jail, and beneath the bureau is
stand, whereon there Is an OCCASIONAL bouquet and
goblet and pitcher, and when your CORES pondent
entered the room jar OF Jelly stood upon this table
senances OF the prisoner. SINCE these women are |
out OF the room II looks TO be rough jaler apart
IN the minds eye and darKen the otherwise Light |
aud cheerful appearance OF the place, but when the
Mind her her visitors and attorneys assure me it
becomes Invested with atmosphere Of taste ana
rennement. Then the dark wells which cover both
the woman indicted and the daughter, who voun.
tarily shares the indictment, Withdrawn and we
ing with their tastes and diRniiying by their gr,e
ths reserved apartment which, In all the history OF
ton within the past monin S,ronS "a the nrs,"
dice " against these prisoners,
THAT NAMELEss SOCIAL POWER
follows them TO this retreat, and when the portly
and manly looking Sheriff occasionally comes mere
some errand, or when the waiter from tae resta nv
rant comes thrice every day with the meals pur.
CHASED rom inc prisoners pocket, or when, during
the LINES when the Court Is discharged, the old
fashioned sterling lawyers retained by her came
here TO consult although Mrs. Wharton Is within
nearing Of the cries Of common Migrants and small
Villains, this cnamber resolves into at the worst an
unhappy womaa's refuge aud home.
MrB. wharton Is unduly susceptible about her WIS.,
ttorA Some Of her best trends aege that she has
injured her case oy avoiding the kindly DISPOSED
state her side Of the issue 10 the world, and have
removed from her shoulders much OF that public
threatens TO survive the verdict Of the Jury ana in.
jure her when she has been declared not guilty by
Twelve OF her peers friend ol hers said to me on
''lt is impossible 20 reason with Mrs. Wharton on
fury was aroused against her the newspapers Of
baumore printed whatever items were In the
minds Of lew persons against ner, and these sug,
friends and gossip carriers, finally gave her s0cn
terrible fright that ihe mention OF a newspaper
name III her presence Nils her with apprehension.
One OF the Baltimore papers wishing 60 we
With its neighbors IN debating the curren.
topic, added TO the startling character Of
reports concerning her. and then scores o other
ambitious journals rushed I'D, and the woman, by
series OF hints was surrounded by preJudices,
which, being Impaired 10 Tue public mind, finally
Entered the arena OF discussion, and when once
nere those VINO mad said merely Idle things against
80 found themselves put the defensive, and IL
y.f..e matter OF pride In them to ASSET her |
z sS q IA re more; Then came Rip Van Wrinkle
e. cfnsed chemist OF Baltimore, who has
-, nortv whefX years the monopoly oil scientific |
rev m tRe content concerning The articles OF wins.
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