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With Unfamiliar Names Were EstahIlished—Institution Was Attach*r andNo lt;*p\ Plan. W.st reski lilgton.») feet»in an saree-d un-lieadment of Obsolete Law of Imprisonment For Debt.A. Wday, sa:“Posdered tplane ]ville an sued 01 the two the pogcfThere has long been a more or less 8Ur dol-|w^e*y diffused belief here that an carriers arrangement for putting jail prison- goyernr ers to work would be an actual ben- ^mostyorlddiana.”The 1*cal citiz line frahaveturnvice on longer,hisAnd fiefit to the prisoners, aside from its Hitchco value to the county. The arguments | i)rove 0 in favor of this belief are various now | and have more than once been re-iance cited at length, in part at least, inturn-1 newspaper notices, and there isnow, as there has been at irnes be-N0^ sofore, a disposition on the part cf'get a^GIy, he I certain county officials, to inaugur-neon-1 ate such an arrangement.Lately a curious entry in an old court record in the county clerk’s letal. | office attracted some attention among, aver-1 a few attorneys, who believed that it recorded an early arrangement for working jail prisoners, and who conceived that the old example might well serve as a precedent for re-establishing the custom. The indenture was made in 1824, and sets forth that “The Courts now here fix and establish the following prison bounds around the jail of the county, which is ordered to be hereafter observed, to-wit: Bounded on the north by Head street, on the west by Tanner street, on the south by High street and on the east by the low water mark of the west fork of the White Water.’ ’The expression, “The Courts” was proper in the plural form of the LTO noun, for there was a president judge and two associate judges.Head street was Sixth street, Tanner street was Western avenue, High street was what is now Third, and even the poetical eastern boundary has undergone a change, for it was then some distance farther east thannow.Investigation has shown that this establishment of prison bounds didl^d *n ^ not provide for working prisoners, Merchanbut was an attachment of a still old-1 ternoon‘ er and less reasonable custom—that of imprisoning men for debt. The|boar(*akerlprison bounds were designated as'B- ThIgor enc*08*nS 3 °* secondary prisonria-And Va Towardcrn Mi’aUhFriday’s The C ized for1.—:ome:nta-ratie n intingyeesboard isin which men could be confined as Itlle schoc a punishment against the heinous n*nth, orII of crime of *or any reason, to gin *n e£pay what they owed. The liberty of Severa the prison bounds was merely for themselv those of this class who could give | ^upt. and %} bond. Those less fortunate were £jy01 imprisoned within the jail itself. ltlTheir CQ1 ions h9 a curious reflection upon the sense yesterf*ay low-1justice of those days that who- 8Choo*s ** ,om- ever, being enclosed within the pris- j p^S^ly a$fco|on bounds, broke over the boundary, voluntary or otherwise, forfeited hisMn 1 bond forthwith. It is remembered ^im 8^acc by a few aged men of Conneravilie, to carry whose recollections go back to the|the d*ver days when this strange institution flourished, that it was a common practice of creditors, through malice MmProvemor coarse waggishness, to chase I P°rtance debt-prisoners across the boundary lines, thus making them or their bondsmen lose the price of their comparative liherty. Sometimes the prisoners were taken up by force and hauled out of the charmed precinct, in which .case the bond was forfeit quite as effectively as though the prisoner had designedly violated the terms of his incarceration.pro-tua-eedtheen-law148tails.In thesubject n tailed me In progrei ings, too, ments of will be fr ing of theThe vaenough tcthe teachMen ql nt
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Connersville Times
Connersville, Indiana, US
Wed, Aug 07, 1912
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