The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-07-08
A.iurn,As Pussy.
wsststsd 4 Accommodations fos the
tafosteus,e EsiIess

The Tiunesi prison wac originally
built 20 hold 90 prisoners, bit aaa
subsequently enlarged hy nirans az
dstanhed barracks. ~ that II cauld
/ accommodate SD. On the day 81 pat
sislt. ~ Ne ~efr Informed hf email
/ i.las kispanl hanging beside ttie osilHr
I tlpaf. Il contained la "A VS. ap
/ preached the entrance Ne we're step.
! ped ~ an armed sentry. whe. urnf 10.
| Ing Iufurnri that We sississsl admit.
saIiee. shouted thfanab 4 square port.
Asls Ia the hraey gate. Star she &c -
I 1.-THE usual call Tor the uiiitsf Of the
I tssy } A corporal ut sergeant, with q
sAfrf az his aida. and tgit revolver
I rs holster ut his hip. answering the
snmmssis yaffissl oHf note 10 the eaf.
den. an4l ~ d moment We were admit
/ ted io The pfisaa ward FIFTY or sixty
sousiets aud gxii.ss wcfp " alkiug sim
[ lessly back aud forth IN front 81 tho
naln prison building, os sitting iily ",
/ sfs,ups here and there ON the
j gfs,and They ssrs all dressed in a
costume pf gray from hsaJ 81 foot
Consisting at sisotir = Sroish esp. q
shirt AMI trousers vt ceefas horne.
span linen. aud lenr afsy pysteoai
! With one 80 two diamond shaped
patches ai ilsek OF yellow cloth sewn
Is,s,n ih. back between The shoulders
I Neatly all of them wore leg letters
aud dts air Was islloA with peculiar
| ciinklng 81 chains which suggested the
continuous inRi'ng of isnumsFalle
hutehes II keys
| The first 4" kamefa 81 cell that We
J entered aas situated ia psto story
log hafrsck standing against the wall
on the left OF the gate asid built .fi-
dessly to fvssise sts overflow ffolu ihs
crowded main baiiaing The roow
vas stpaus thirty tive ieet Ia length IS
itsentysliye in With and twelve feet
high it, " Ais oi hsWu logs we're euy
erred with dirty vhltewash its r'ssigs,
plank si,,or vas black with afisA mud
and har,i trsAldsn nth aud v was
lighted nv three grated windows lssok
, ing ent Into the rft@on yard. Down
the center Of che resni. ami oscupysuE
alsaus hall its width, ran The slerissnf
hens h "a WssAien platform tselve feet
| Vide ard thirty fest iens. snppsrssss.
q a hight 81 two feet from the Haar,
IN stout posts. Each longitudinal hall
~ this los platform slePcsi little,
! r,of.wiss. gfutn the vsaieg, so that
! when tbs pfisonvts dept upon Il in
tNa CLOSELY packed transverse rows,
their heals IN the middle were a few
inp hes hiStisr than their fcrs at the
sdges. These sleeping Platforms are
knnwn a. nsrssS. assd Ssisefisn
prt.on cell contains no esissr iarnitgr,
event q largw vosssien tab fer etcrc
neni The prisoners have nslthei
psllsws. h,anAets NOT Ard&icihifs
AMI mass lie ap these has.i plank nsrs'
With ~ covering bus their overeost>
A. We entered the celi, The ceustcis
With q Sudden iinrliag u chains
srfanr t. their feet. removed thsii
caps ana ssssosi silently Ia dsns'
thfeng around the mares, lairsSs
y,titu resaata - e. He's DO ysu 80
t.,vsg''1 sail the warden. Zdrayi'
shsiaiers vaShs ysisoki hlasarssslie
a. We wish Yea health, yous hsgh no
hiiity,f'l st.s,atssi hundred voices y
/. l,xsarxs ehnrtss The prison, sal.
shr wsrlsa. isterrsily eyer-erowstesi
This cd. Tor example, - only thirty
.iyr ices hong by twenty-five ieri . dc
sud has air .lsAre ts,r thirty -iise. OF a
p,oSa leTtv men. iias many Rsi
sless herr last nikht'" be inquired
trrnsnx ~ The rsisoavFs-
! - 4 hundred ard sky, yeur htsi
aota.ssy, = shouted half iossn hsaf-'
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