Sentence:  A Bow Street Runner says "I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong ... He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the <WSD>Whit</WSD>, o' course." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (Newgate Prison) in London, England.