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CONTINUED rROM FIRST PAGE$400,000 court house, and the oldJail waa abandoned and has since , been the haven of birds and occa-Stonally a tramp who sought shel , ter from the weather.When the force of clean up” | men who will begin their duties in : the building tomorrow, finish their , work, the building will be found habitable and sanitary from top to 1 bottom. Improvements to be made will not necessarily be extensive. \ and the city will not have to go to , any great expense In preparing the | old jail for occupancy. lt;Spot RomanticStories of tragedy and happiness can both be woven about this old red stone building which for the next year will house the prisoners arrested by city officers. Several hangings have occurred there in earlier days of the county before electrocution was adopted by the state as the official manner for the death-sentenced to pay their debt to society and thees happenings made up only a small portion of the tragedy. There were many to be incarcerated there first and later sent to the state prison, and there was happ ness for those reunited with their families who met them at the door when they were discharged.The walls of the old Hunt County Jail will probably again echo and re echo with “prison songs, but this time those songs will come from strictly city prisoners. I
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Greenville Evening Banner
Greenville, Texas, US
Wed, May 18, 1932
Page 8
Full Page
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John A.
TX, USA 04 Sep 2017
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