The herald., 1894-12-20
STONE WALLS
Do Not a Prison Make Nor
Iron Bars a
Cage
OVER in SAN BERDOON.
United States Prisoners Go and
Come at Their Own
Sweet Will.
THE MARSHAL'S DISCOVERY
Men Under Sentence Permitted to Leave
the Jail, Visit Their Homes aud
Attond Amuscments.

A strange story about how the author.
tiles in San Bernardino county use the
prisoners placed in their charge in the
county Jail was waited about the streets
of this town yesterday.
The story was that the federal author-
ities here had learned that some United
States prisoners. sentenced by Judge
Ross to serve sentences in the county
jail at San Bernardino. were being in~
humanity treated. Judge Ross, the
story said, had sent Marshal Ccvsrrus
bias down to investigate the matter, and
she rumors had bsen found to be only
too true, the terrible details Of the
atrocities perpetrsted being enough to
make the hairs OF a mans head stand
on their ends, and to harrow up his soul
These men whom Judge Ross hsd SEN
fenced, the story was, were not even
allowed to- remain in the jail at San
Bernardino. but rcamed the streets OF
that wicked city day and night with no
one to guard them against harm.
The inhuman monsters who had been
charged with their keeping permitted
the men to enter the Jail only at meal
times, keeping them out in sill sorts of
weather and refusing them day after
day all the comforts of home.
One poor fellow, the story said, who
had only one father and one mother and
they, just by chance, residents of San
Bernardino, was forced to go and live on
them for days at a time, and another
lived with his wife in a cottage away off
from the Jail.
Sometimes, the story said, these mis-
erable men, driven to desperation by
the cruelties and insults heaped upon
them, would go to the thesters in San
Bsrnardino, whore they have amateur
performances occasionally, rather than
spend their evenings in the Jail.
When Marshal Cevsrrnbias was asked
by O HERALD reporter yesterday if he
had not found rather funny condition
OF affairs at San Bernardino he replied
that there was nothing humorous about
it. "It is rather O serious matter" he
said. "If you don't believe 1t read Sec
ton 1901 of the penal code, and trem Bile
fer the fate of Jai!er Newton Brown.
"Dietrict- Attorney George Dsnis and
myself decided yesterday it was best to
investigate the rumors which have been
coming in from San Bernsrdino for some
time. l went to San Demanding, taking
with me Deputy Goodrich. We went at
once to the jail, and l found G. f. Tabor
in charge. | took out list Of the men
sentenced by Judge Ross to confinement
in the Jail and asked how they were
getting along.
First rate" replied the iailor.
II asked to see John n. Howarth, one |
ID h1
employee at Daggett, and was sentenced |
Bernardino Jail. / was told Howarth |
had left the Jail at O'Clock and would |
be back at 10. Then | asked for Martin
Kelley. Kelley had accompanied Ho.
warth. l asked for E. A, Dix. He was
visiting his wife, and that, S. Campbsll. |
the next man, was doing the same thing.
Only one of the five men whom Judge
Ross sentenced to the Jail was sthere.
That was R.sHeeley."
II asked ii these men that were out
had TRUSTEES with them, and was told
that Haworth was q trusty, and he and
Kelley were together.
when l wanted to know if this cus.
tom had been in vogue long, Tabor said
enat he had inaugurated it himself
while Jailer Brown was in the east and
that up to the return of Brown that
worthy had sanctioned it.
Dix and Campbell will be back for
breakfast he said; they spend their
aights at home sometimes and some.
times their wives come to this jail
On the Etreet. said Marshal Covar-
lubias, L found from reliable sources
hat Kelley ard Haworth often 90 ont
20 the theater together aud to placss of
amusement about town.
Marshal Covarru bias is Of the opiniun
hat the jail authorities ct San Bernar-
limo are In very bad box. The grand
ury OF the federal court will doubtless
investigate the matter, though the mar.
hal knew nothing OF this.
The five men sent 10 San Befnardipo
county jail were sentenced in July and
Auguat by Judge Rose. All were rail.
DAD men working for the Atlantic and
'acific road at Daggett. They we're we'll
,nown in San Bernardino, most of them
.avng lived and worked for the rail-
cad there at one time or another. Two
Il them, 30 stated. have families living
u San Bernardino.