New-York tribune., 1895-12-11
TAMSEN AND HIS BOA RDERS.
RAABE AND MCABE PLAYED CARDS
WITH THE POSTOFFICE THIEVES.
THE DEFENCE FIGHTING THE PROSECUTIONS
CONTENTION THAT LUDLOW STREET JAIL Is
THE COUNTY PRIsoN-TIiE ESCAPE
OF TIE PRISONERS DESCRIBED.

THE COUNTY PRIsoN-THE ESCAPE
OF TIE PRISONERS DESCRIBED.
The trial of Sheriff Tamssn was continued
vesterday in Part II OF General Sessions, before
Judge Allison Most Of the testimony introduced
was to show that Ludlow STREET Jsl Is legally the
city and county Jail The defence Is VsorouS''
fghting' this contention In spite OF General i'"-
cy's objections Judge Allison allowed Assistant
observation-disclosures Weeks TO read the act OF 1919
autborIznp the Board of Supervisors TO levy a tax
20 construct the building known as the county jail
The records Of the Supervisors Of New ork CilS
for the years 1861 and 1862 were next offered IN EVIL
dence showing the ordering OF money paid io'
construction and reconstruction OF county JAN
Despite the objections of the defence. 1T was ad-
mit,ed as tending 10 prove that the LnuIo" street
jail was in fact, the city and county jail.
Mr. MacI.ean addressed the Court at length, con-
tending that there had been city or county jaii
in New-York City since 1929 and that all prisons
were either under charge of the Board OF Alder
,nen the Department of Charities and Correction
or A.mshoase Board
Mr. MacLean sought TO draw the distinction that
the Ludlow-st building was the city ana county
prison. and not the county jail No county prison.
trs arrested under criminal warrants. was the con-
tention Of the defence, had been confined there
that II was a prison for civil and not criminal
process. Judge Allison held that under the Revised
Statutes the county Sheriff kept the county
prison. and that the county prison was under the
law the county jail, and that the same law-that
Of 1S61-expressly provided that United States prs-
oners should be confined there That continued the
Judge. was the construction paced on ,he laws in
controversy for over fifty years, and he saw no
reason 10 overrule IL al this time
Mr.. Battle then called Thomas Lite an DRY,
whte-haired man, who testified that he was a
member of the Board Of Supervisors from 1851 to
1864 and that he was in the Board when the Lud-
low Street Jail built and that Il was then
known and conducted a county Jail The de-
fence objected. but Judge Allison replied that
while he did no, think such proof necessary he
would admit II.
Reeves T. Se,mos testified that he the deputy
clerk Of the Board Of Supervisors in 1861 and 1862.
He testified that the money TO construct the Ludlow
Street Jail had been paid ont by the Controller on
the order of the Board of Supervisors
WENT TO THE JAIL WITH VOSBURG.
Mr. Weeks then called William Holmes, who told
how he had secured pass at the United States
Marshal's office and then in company with William
Vosburg visited the prlsorcrs Later ne visited the
jail again. and admitted without pass He
had talk with the prisoner Russell in room
where there attendant. lie was not searched.
To all this General Tracy objected on the ground
that the defendant had not been advised Of it, but
he was overrpled. Later in June the witness said
he again visited Russell. and admitted to the
jail the guard asking for pass. He talked with
Russell In the yard upon this occasion The guard
did not remain with them. On cross-examination
the witness said that he got the pass through POST
office Inspector Jacobs, and tha; he went there with
the knowledge OF both Jacobs and the United STATES
Marshal lie denied that he went there at Jacobs's
instance or that he had ever acted the part of an
informer for the Inspector
Holmes denied that he had gotten the pass for
NosDurg. He admitted that he permitted vosburg