Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-14

to New York. I do not know yet. Up to noon to-day the Consolidated road had
 not completed their time table for the
 New York division. As for the other
 train, could not say whether it will leave
 at 5:35 or 6:15 p. m."
 TWO WIFE HEATERS.
 The Only Offenders Before the Police Court To-day.
 John Kelly was the first victim before
 the police court this morning. Mrs
 Kelly, a respectable middle aged
 matron testified that Johns whereabouts
 were to her unknown for about two years,
 until he came home with the blizzard. He loafed around for five weeks and then went | to work and back to his old tricks of get ting drunk and abusing his family. Day before yesterday he went home drunk and
 beat his wife. Taking neighbor by the
 back of the neck he threw her out the | door and halfway over a fence. The son ! a quiet well dressed boy of eighteen cor
 roborated his mothers testimony. Kelly
 was sentenced to twenty days in jail.
 Matt Shanahan, who lives corner of 1 North Elm street and East Main street,
 had difference of opinion with his wife
 yesterday afternoon, in which crockery, a
 stove poker, chair and a washing tub 1
 wife around the yard with a chair while
 she lustily yelled for the police. Chief
 Eagan arrived and arrested Matt for drunk
 enness and breach of peace. Mrs Shan
 ahan's sister was summoned as a witness
 and when she told the story Mrs Shanahan | objected to her appearance so strongly that
 to prevent a hair pulling match, Chief Eagan shut her up in the ante-room. Judge
 Bradstreet was informed that the town
 will have to support the family whether
 Matt is at home or not, so he sentenced
 him to thirty days and costs each count.
 THE LOCAL POLICE STATION.
 A Reporter Is Shown Through the Hor- | rible Den.
 In strong contrast to the neat town
 workhouse as described by our evening
 contemporary few nights ago, stands out
 the city prison, police headquarters, and tramps, lodging house on Phoenix alley. Everyone knows where it is; that little
 tumble-down rookery, which from East Main street looks like deserted country
 grlst mill. The outside appearance is by no means to be taken as a sample of the inside. Very few, with the exception of ! those who have had the misfortune to pass an hour within its portals, have any idea , of what is inside. As we step ill the out
 side door and unlock the door of the lock up proper we find room % feet long, 4 feet wide, part of the way, and eight feet the rest On one side are four fairly good cells, while on the other side two minia- 7 ture windows let in the light. A second } door admits us to the inner room, which is E foot lower than the outer, and is about wide all the way. A huge stove stands in the middle of the room. To one side
 stands row of four cells, and
 on the other side there are three windows, 32 by 20 inches left open, with a blind
 alley between the engine house knd the f lookup. This alley is filled with all sorts
 of decaying matter, refuse from both | buildings, and has peculiarly sickening f smell Daylight. and dark are the same in . the room, and even with the gas light which is constantly burning in the cells ceiling large portion of the plaster has
 fallen off, revealing the laths. The walls are damp and dirty-looking and the floor is in the same condition. The cells are each provided with single plank bunk at 5 the head of which is a water closet bowl Into this room during the past year have been crowded 3,032 people, an average of 8 31O per night There were ,647 lodgers and 1885 prisoners. The lodgers find a
 Deu OH GHe ua1Hp sGoueS, Wnlle the pTlS- U oners occupy the three cells, as one of the : four has to be left open to allow the 1od-
 gers to use the closet. The outside room ! is used for the female prisoners, and r should there he but one of these she prac- :, tically takes mp half the lookup. d There have been at one time 1T Q lodgers and 13 prisoners shut . up in these two rooms. The upper story !, is hardly better than the lower. It i. }, reached by flight of stairs two feet eigh e inches wide with nine inch treads and l risers, and as steep as the side of house > A number of times different officers hay,
 slipped and sustained injuries in mounting $ or decending these stairs, and in February l. 1886, Cornelius Curtin slipped, fell ane r. fractured his skull and died in three days .- The rooms up stairs are cramped, damp d musty smelling and unhealthy. The cell l. ings are dripped and the marks of leak, l. roof make it look like an Italian tenement d The bunk room in the rear is lighted b, |, one window, ,and is filled with goods fol $ which there is no storage room elsewhere @ Do we need new police stations