Evening journal., 1901-11-22
JOLLY JAIL birds
SING GAY SONGS
Eighty Prisoners Transferred
TO WOrkhOuSe
LOOKED LIKE SLAVE DRIVING
In Squads Of Twenty the Criminals
We're Committed to Custody
Of WOrkhOuSe Trustees

Of WOrkhOuSe Trustees
Eighty-one prisoners were delivered
from New Castle jail to the County
Court by Sheriff Mcdaniel this morning
and the court mt once reeommitted the
prisoners to the new county workhouse
in squads OF twenty. The bringing of the
men, who lRye been sentenced TO serve
long or short terms for various crimes,
to the city in trolley cars and
driven into the Court House shacSled to-
gether was unusual and not unlike the
scenes that were common, especially in
the South during the days Of slavery,
when it was the custom to drive hordes
Of men and women along county roads
and to the market places
When il became known that the prs
oners were being brought here by troll
ley, people thronged the sidewalks along
Market street and the crowd mt the
county Court House was big. The Grim
inals were brought over in two Of the
New Castle railway cars and the regu-
lar Jail van. Ten police officers and two
sergeants assisted the sheriff in deliver
ing the men and to assist him in taking
them 10 the county workhonse after re-
commitment
Never before has Wilmington been I'M
yaded by So iarge a body of men whose
criminal records made them famous.
PRISONERS ENJOYED THE JAuNT
1t was more in fhe form Of an excur-
sion that the majority of the prisoners
took their removal from the old Jail 10
the WOrkhouse and the double quartet
made UP Of the prisoners, left New Castle
singing Good morning, Carrie, and
marched into the corridor of the county
Court House singing Shall We Meet Be
yond the RIVER The majority Of the
prisoners are colored and are old offend
ers who have been To the whipping post
50 many times that that means of pun
ishment has lost its terrors. The colored
PARTON of the men We're noisy and merry.
but the white prisoners We're undemOn-
strative.
Before the court called for the pris-
oners. Chief Justice Lore said that it was
the unanimous opinion Of the body that
I the Legislature had the power to remove
| the prisoners from the custody of the
sheriff and place them into the custody
of the trustees Of the new Owrkhouse.
This was in answer to the action brought
by the trustees recently to have the pris-
oners transferred to the new institution.
SQUADS or PRISONERS REcoMMirTED
Sheriff Mcdaniel. By order of the court.
brought the prisoners JIM the room in
squads Of twenty each. In the first batch
there We're several notable criminals i'm
Guiding "Pottsyille Red, who is charged
with taking part in the cracking Of the
safe in the Bavarian Brewery; Harry
w. Fish, who shot Thomas Mullin and
almost caused his death, and George
Reilly, who tried to kill Sergeant Joseph
Howgate, when surprised in an attempt
70 rob the pawnsnop Of Nathan Levy.
Mary Brown, colored, was the only fe-
male prisoner.
In another batch was Andrew BurlS-
hardt, who killed a fellow employe in the
Bavarian Brewery.
Sheriff Mcdaniel reported John
Adams, a prisoner, sick and unable to be
brought over.
In resenteneing the prisoners Chief
Justice Lore did So in the following lam
guage:
You are now committed to-the custody
I of the trustees of the workhOuse until the
residue of the sentence imposed by this
court has been carried into execution.
OVER THE HILLS TO THE WoRKHousE
Four Peoples Line railway cars con
veyed the prisoners from the Court
House to the workhouse and they sang
plantation and rag time" songs as they
were bowling along the road to the field
Of their future labors They were guard
cd ON the trip BY members Of the local
/ Police Department as follows.
Sergeant Kelleher and Patrolmen
Pierce, Edwards and Flynn in car No. i.
Car No. 2-Odicers Shell, Mcbride,
Hancsck and Hutton.
Car No 3-Sergeant Massey, Officers
Ward. Riley and Bowman.
The fourth car was run after the re-
turn OF the first three and Sergeant Kel
leher and Officers Pierce, Edwards and
FLYNN guarded it.
The Court Of Oyer and Terminer prob
ably Will meet this afternoon and demand
HAN rTss
Judge Spruanee retired from the bench
presumably to draw up the order for the
delivery of certain prisoners.
GUARDED BY sHERIFF's FORCE
There were no exciting incidents con
nected with the trip of the prisoners from
4 New Castle TO the Court House Many
Of the men regretted leaving Sheriff Nc
/ Daniel, who has been as kind to them as
his duties would allow The cars con
/ tanning the criminals We're guarded by
/ Sheriff Mcdaniel, Deputy Sheriff Theo-
/ dore Mcdaniel and John Simmons. They
rode on the last car. John Barnes and
/ Walter Rash had charge Of the first car.
SIXTY PRISONERS LEFT IN JAIL
OF the 140 prisoners in the custody Of
Sheriff Mcdaniel, there remain but sixty,
of whom six are serving life sentences.
The latter are:
Butch" Walker, Frank johnson.
George Williams, Jack Dougherty, Harry
/ Wallace.
Montyloo A. Cole, the young denta
student, who is serving five years for kill
] ing William Montague with a baseball
| bat also remains in the jail.
Sheriff Mcdaniel probably will be ask
ed to deliver to the Municipal Court to-
morrow the short term prisoners, MS
4 Warden AIeserve has been notified by
Judge Churchman to,appear before the
court at that time
PRISONERS WILL WORK
AS the machinery is not in the work
room Of the institution the male prisoners
will be put 20 work in the quarry, within
the stOckade The woman will be em-
ployed in the laundry.