This is a large building of several stories with numerous offices.

The chief in his office on the main floor, on the right hand of the entrance, received us courteously and assigned to us a detective according to an arrangement previously made with Ashton.

In the office were portraits of police commissioners and the chiefs and others who had been connected with the department for many years.

Entering an elevator we were soon on the topmost floor where were the cells in which prisoners just arrested and waiting for trial were confined.

The doors of the cells, all of iron, were opened or closed by moving a lever.