Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — A Historic Calaboose. [ARTICLE]

A Historic Calaboose.

The famous old prison known as the Ludlow street jail entertains, a different class of prisoners than that found at the Tombs, says the New York Advertiser. There is not very much real vice in Ludlow, and rarely poverty and filth. Before imprisonment there for debt was abolished men went willingly to jail to escape liabilities, and lived in luxurious seclusion until things squared themselves—unless they ran out of means to square the jailer, when luxuries departed and jail life became a reality. Boss Tweed and Jacob Sharp ire two of the most distinguished names which have adorned the guest roll at the Ludlow street institution. Tweed was finely treated, but turned Ingrate and escaped from jail after only a brief period of incarceration. Being subsequently captured in Spain, he returned reluctantly and ended his days in Ludlow street.