All around was pandemonium; yelling, singing, cursing, fighting were in progress; the jail was crowded, but every now and then a new case was dragged up; for an instant the door was opened, and against the crowd, pushing from within, the new prisoner would be crowded into the cell.

At one time in the evening a cry arose that a murder was being committed in the jail.

The door was opened, the policemen crowded in, and the two men who had clinched and were battling were torn apart.

One was dragged outside and thrown into the woman's jail, and for a time the air was blue with the most insulting cries.

Convinced that no work could be done in the afternoons, we labored with the greatest possible diligence each morning.