New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-04-26
Cant Do It too Quick

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If Redwood County should build its
own jail, as the Gazette would favor,
judging from its article on Jail misman-
agement in its last issue, the people of
New Ulm would be pleased. The rail
way company would be the only loser
by such action, for the transportation of
Redwood's rogues, whose names we with
hold for the PRESENTS big revenue to
it's exchequer. The :'personal" column,
too, of the Gazette would suffer from its
not being able to chronicle the almost
daily expectations of its friends and
boon companions.
"The few prisoners that Redwood
County ccntrols", is the way the
Gazette puts it. Does the editor
know that fully one third of the
prisoners in our jail are from Redwood
County? Truly he need not grieve over
the decadence of western society-his
county is all right. Does the Gazette man
know that for the past six months, there
has not been meal sat down to in the
jail but what one or more of Redw ood's
citizens answered 'here" to roll call?
Does he know that by virtue of a long
observed custom that county's represent
atives in our Jail have seats of honor at
the head of the table, and they fill their
position with grace, cultivated only by
continues training in jail-table etiquet-
tie? ''We are paying Brown County to
| decently take care of our wards' says
the Gazette, and last year when some OF
| it's prisoners were sick unto death,a ply
stefan visited them and druggist furn,
ished them medicine, and now these two
Samaritans have been obliged to bring
lawsuits against Redwood County to gel
their pay for doing what was neces
sary to be done. "To decently care fol
our wards' the Gazette says, while Red.
woods county attorney wrote Sheriff
Anderson some time ago that "thei1
county must not be beld re.
sponsible for any clothing OF
medicine which its prisoners may say
they need" And some of its prisoners
arrived here without shoes on their feet
without change of underwear and, in
some ses,without pantaloons. Sheriff
Anderson bought them at various times
cheap shoes, changes of underwear and
cheap pantaloons and in thus
"decently caring for its wards" incurred
a bill, together with boarding them, of
seventy-seven dollars in 1892, and Red:
wood County refuses now to allow the
bill. Now this liberal sprinkling Of
Redwood county's population, these
| ssunfortunates' and ''unfortunate victims
of the law quoting from the Gazette
these men who wantonly get themselves
placed in this eden almost equalling al
inquisi6on" by committing misdemean.
ors in the early fall in orde.
that they may get a gool
winters board and have genera
easy time, these men or some of them
have caused the Gazette to commit it
self-respect and do what more circum
spect papers would not do until the
had satisfied themselves that the charge
were true. Brown county needs a jai
! not half as badly as does its neigh BORN
county For several years past i has nc
t had a prisoner from New Ulm or thi
= vicinity, and if Redwood county wi
r build its own Jail a hearty approve
9 thereat will be given BY us. We are NJ
: at all anxious to longer harbor such
t large proportion Of its people who desn
4 to spend their winter months abroad
d lsearch Of health, food and rest.