, 1874-04-16
LOCAL MISCELLANY. III


51N JONAH V1NDlUATED.
In TINT interesting book. tho b1omotrs Of Sir
Jonah harrington, a ntory is toll which has boon
oftcn laughed at, mud ofton declared to be ABB
aurdIy untrue. It ls Tint Of party Of oaro,sors
who spond tho night nt 4 l,ylnting-loigo In Iro-
1nnl, tho walls OF which havo boon nowly
plaatered. Ono OF thom, overcome With
rlarct mud punch, falls ns1ocp in MI
armchair, tipped baok against tho
wall, his hand renting OH tho grcon p1neter
During tho night It Bots, and hia hair becomes 30
embedded II, II TINT In the morning ho las to bo
dug out with n caao-knifo, o rude surgical opera
tion, which leaves him with blcoding ecalp'
This ia tho story which haa bocn declared TN
true, but tho correctness Of Which Is now yif,li-
eatcd In city which Sir Jonnh mover hoard OF.
atucc It did not exist during his jovlal day.
II was uncertain, up to tlato why tho Harrison
Street Station WIS built except to enable some %
pots Of tho board Of Public Works to innko littlo
money, or to give pcter Mari chance to recover
$4,000 from tho CITY, Thnt It now appoGrn thas t
oilInco was to provo tie correctness Of tho
1riBhman's tale.
Yesterday morning Justice Doylen opened
Court as uHnal. and watod for tho Clerk to begin
the call Of tho tlnckot, but The Clerk DELAYED, and
Tue Justice nnl,cd tho rcnson. Tho Olork ro-
Bpoptlotl TINT tho priAonere had not yot bo0n
brought mp from, their cells.
Tirno wont on. Mo prisoners mhtte their ap-
pearauce. The patience OF the Court began to
disappear, and lie sont Nh officer down-Btairs to
Inquire why tie prisoners wore not forthcoming.
Tho officer returned in fow minutes md In
formed tho Court TINT tho station-Koeper had
just finished digging the prisoners ont, and that
thoy would DO up in few mii,utos.
Tho Justice was about to nak what this meant,
lookiu1 procession wendell it's way into tho
courtroom. 1t was hoadcd by mai, whose hair
appeared to have been hacked off OF the bhclt Of
his head with d razor made from q rusty hoop,
whose acalp was bleeding in dozen differ
Ont p}accB. Tho man had m excessively
irritatcd and injured expression upon his
faco, and wns making Bomo ronaRrk to tile offnct
TINT ho always waa opposed to these new.fangicd
had lost tho sent Of his rantaloons. md was
conscious of cavity which both lis hands.
largo as they wore, woro not large enough to
covor. His SUCCESSOR wns destitute Or LIS right
nnothor surprised the Court by having very
long .and bushy whiskors on ono chooist while
tho other was cropped exceedingly closo. Last
OF MI came n man in his BtocknG-toet. Ilie
6tation-Kcopor remarked apologotica'y TINT tho
female prisoners would be nip in the course Of
THO Justice stated agrily that he had often OBJ
fecsed to Tho practice Of m9ltre9ting prisoners.
but he Ind mover seon auch shameful case as
tho ono before him.
Tho station-Kcopcr replied that the officers
were not at fault, md went on to or
plain tho reaaon why his charges wero in
such q leplorabfe condition. Ho sad
TINT tho cells in tho now station had heon floored
with Homo kind OF thr cement which the inventor
Ind stated whs personally nbno1iouB to bed-bugs
and would keep al1 forms OF insect life nfar on.
Tho prisoners, wearied with tho labora Of the
day, had lain down on this floor and gono to
stoves in tho corridor had roftened the
floor on which the prisoners lay. When morn;
ing came and tho fires went out, the cement set
md held tight whatever had beon in,bcdded In
1t. With tho exception OF one ludiorous prson-
or who 1ny across the others, they wero al stuck
last.
Whom he had ordered them to got up they al
unanimously said they could not. At first he
most thought they weFe unwilling tollcave thcr
couchea, but npou investigation found that thoy
to soften the tar by tocat applications Of ! red
hot poker, but to that the prisoners objected
with singular unanimity. Ono man Was fastened
by bis boots alone, and ho Ind slcceeded In
Then torn up another Just as one pulls up . sap.
ling, the only trouble being that that individual
Ind left tho aoat Of his pantaloonB behind him:
Asfor tho two who wore stuck by their lair, no had
rooted them out us he best could with jack
knife which be happoned to have: Some Of the
ladies who werc held by their falao hair had
boon easily liberated, but thoy fatty refused to
como mp until thoy had thawed out their CHG
mona. Being married man himself, and know.
Ing tho store women set on such things, he felt
bound to comply with their request. There
woro two or three otbor women down-Btalrs, but
they Ind been extricatod In such domoralizod
condition that, though o policeman, ho felt
ashamed to produce them.
Tho Justice listened with much surprise to
this story, and discharged the prisoners, who
started for home,-one Of them aftor ho had
pulled up Ills boots minus their Rolos, and M
other after he had borrowed = newspaper which
he thoughtfully held behind him as ho walked
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