Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-05-24

"Yes,'' he said. ''I'll tell you what
I'll do. I'll swap shows with you -
So gave him pass for the evening,
and we started in to visit the prison,
which is a big, rectangular building,
standing in the middle of a large, grassy
knoll overlooking the city.
Some of the prisoners are Indians,
! but they are not of the Ramona stripe.
| They are more of the Cherokee strip
| People who read Ramona" do not ex-
pect to find an Indian in Jail unless the
court has erred in its judgment. I was
panied to hear that some of these red
brothers were charged with stealing
Some of them are even charged with
murder. This striving little Jail has over
20 murderers in it at this writing,
some of them not yet 81 years old.
Starr, the outlaw and murderer, is
one of them. He looks to be about 20
and is not a bad looking chap excepting
that he has remarkably piercing cheek
bones and restless eye. He has killed
more people even at 20 than many a
successful physician 60 years of age
His mother and sister came down on
the train with us the evening before.
The former is gentle eyed, middle
aged, dark woman of quiet demeanor,
but evidently did not understand how
to successfully bring up boy. In few
weeks this lad will be called home. 1t
is needless to say that he will go direct
ly to paradise, where all the murderers
go if we can rely upon their farewell re-
marks on the gallows.
visited the galloWs where over 90
men have passed OH to their reward. 1t
is an Enclosure with an elevated plat
form at one end, with roof over it, so
that there need be no postpOnement on
account of weather, for they have never
disappointed an audience since the con-
struction of the building. The trap has
a capacity of eight men, would think.
At the back of the platform is long
bench for the chairman and glee club.
At the front is the long trap hinged on
both sides, SO that when the trigger is
sprung the platform parts in the middle
and the speaker drops through it with
great vigor.
The old executioner had an ambition
to hang 100 men. but when he struck
the ninety ninth it happened to be
warm personal friend, so he resigned,
and his ambition is still unfulfilled. He
always weighed his man and then got
a railroad tie or log of the same weight
cut out rude head and neck on one
end of it and rehearscd with this dunn
my and the new rope till he was sure
that all was correct and ready. Then
he did the job in a way that he never
felt ashamed of.
81 don't ask you to take my word for
it, he would say, with pride. II just
let my work show for itself. -
These various wooden dummies stand
yet i'll q corner by the scaffold, and the
whole place has an air of steady, health
full, active business.
The Jail now sends it's long time con-
victs to Brooklyn, having filled up most
of the other pens il the United States.
Overproduction and long hauls seem to
be the only danger TO the vast volume
of business done by this Jail.
There were some ladies in the Jail I
had never seen any lady convicts before,
so went up stairs to see them. A lady
felon who chews navy tobacco is q sad
sight. hope may never see it again.
hate also to see a lady taking care of
little child that has been recently born
to her in cell 40.
would rather follow her to her grave
than see perfect lady trotting an anony-
nous baby inside the walls Of a peni
Tertiary We spent the Sabbath in Cot
feyville, the scene of the great Dalton
fight, which occurred on the 9th day of
October, 1899. Colonel Elliott of The
Journal kindly piloted us around over
the field of battle, and having been on
the ground at the time knew every inch
Of it. He was in IA pitched battles in
the war, but says this was the most saw
age and murderous work he ever saw,
though it occupied but 10 minutes.
Colonel Elliott in his printed account
says that the morning of the 9th dawn.
ed bright and beautiful.
Five solitary horsemen might have
been seen going toward the town of
Coffeyville. One Of them used tobacco,
but otherwise they were perfect gents.
They wore false whiskers, which showed
that they did not wish to be recognized.
The use of tobacco and false whiskers
leads to an ignominious death and
should not be encouraged.
These men rode into the town just
about as the banks were opening, as Bob
Dalton discovered on looking at beau
tiful gold repeater, presented to him by
Q prominent citizen by request They
hitched their horses in an alley marked
the GALLEY of death" in the diagram
herewith given. Here there are bullet
marks yet to show how hot was the con-
fict in that neighborhood, and an old
stable there has been carried away for
relics.
Condon's bank, marked exhibit A,
faces the plaza A plaza is a place where
Alliance people hitch their teams and
where greasers sell hot tamales made
of boiled breast of buzzard inside corn
shuck. The plaza by day has a fringe of
demoralized teams around it, each team
consisting of one horse and ono mule 4
It Is safe to say that in the southwest
fully two thirds of tho teams are thus
arranged. Why il is do not know