The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07
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tect him from the combination of a disoyal
wife and mercenary mother.in-law ana quite
following OF sisters and unces and aunts.
These cases are not traditions OF the Jail.
Iney are present cases that TRANSFERRED under
my observation and the men were my associates.
Nothing that say and no inference that
draw from the conditions that we're around me
is in any way to be taken as applicable to my
own case. do not believe that among all the
wives that forced their husbands to endure the
torture OF Ludlow while was there there was
one honest, deserving woman.
What is to be said of the morality that en-
ploys spies to dog every minute of a mans
time?
Ludlow has been and is a club with its
handle ever ready to leap into the hand ex.
TENDED for H. 1t is weapon of revenge, not OF
justice. The woman who really wants to do
the right thing does use it. 1t is only the
woman who has become fury who has for.
gotten all sense of proportion in her thirst for
revenge. who is ready to destroy herself as
we'll as the in the desire to blindly rend
and tear.
Often she has industrious moral support
The mother-in-law may be an ancient joke,
but too much family has led many man
to Ludlow.
Ludlow. viewed from the standpoint of its
defenders, is necessary adjunct to county
administration. Theoretically it fills an i'm
perative need of the community. The court
must have means of peremptory enforcement
OF its NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. must be made to
support wives employers must pay their EN-.
ployes, and men who run from their just obi. /
cations must be compelled to give some guar
antee that they will appear when called to
answer before the court. Theoretically Ludlow
tc
1t, and place against those theories that justify
its existence the facts that | know AS II
exists today it is network of robbery, in
trigue and vengeful persecution, l think the
judges largely to blame for this condition
by their readiness to grant an order of com
mitment on the slightest preteXt thus making
it possible for INSCRIPTIONS collectors to force
money out of claims of doubtful Justification.
In writing Of the County Jail of New York
more Familiarity referred to as Ludlow" the
modern Infant of that old English Marshall
sea-" where Imprisonment for debt in England
died three-quarters of a century ago under the
scathing pen OF Charles Dickens. find it hard
TO avoid the personal equation that would lead
me into the error of expressed rebellion against
the cruelty unjust Imprisonment from which l
have suffered within it's walls. 1t is not my
purpose to voice personal grievance. Ludlow
lowered before for years a grim prob
ability, and faced its and ominous ap-
proach with that same fatalistic mental atti-
tude that many take toward the inevitable ap-
proach of death.
Could the roster of Ludlow be opened for
public inspection mighty network of potico
financial warfare would be revealed for. while
its fame is coupled with the word "Alimony,"
and a weeping Cupid with broken wing is its
oil 81 10 hos
often a weapon of the warning factions OF
finance than factor in the high cost of loving.
Ludlow an institution. is unique in the
world. do not believe there is its counterpart
anywhere Its functions are taken over as a
Dy-product OF the penal and reformatory insti-
tutions of other communities. New York alone
maintains big expensive building with all the
accessories OF uniformed keepers, and clerks.
and engineers, and cooks, and cleaners, and
cells with great iron doors that clang and bolts
that shoot into place to the turning of a master
KY zig enough 10 drive spike or kill horse,