Rye Miles #13621 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 I’ve always wondered if they really had a window in the cell like in the movies/TV. Their buddies could come by and give them a gun through the window which has happened quite a few times! Seems pretty dumb! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot, SASS #13748 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 And those windows have bars that come out when pulled on by a white horse. White horses must have super-equestrian power. I have always been fascinated by the fact that most outlaws in those TV Westerns are explosives experts. Why, they can blow a man sized hole in a one foot thick brick wall and not hurt anyone inside or outside. It’s amazing! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulp, SASS#28319 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Myth busters did an episode on Western jail escapes. If you find yourself in a Western jail do NOT allow your cohorts to try the dynamite in the window trick! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Just watched Lonesome Dove again and the jail cell holding Blue Duck was on the second floor. Unfortunately, the window out side the cell was not barred. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Creek,5759 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 None of them had glass in them. Mite be a bit Chille in the winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 (edited) Stone Jail, Lower Lake CA. https://noehill.com/lake/cal0429.asp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Lake_Stone_Jail Edited March 10 by Subdeacon Joe 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sassnetguy50 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 50 minutes ago, Bailey Creek,5759 said: None of them had glass in them. Mite be a bit Chille in the winter. They could mud in wood planks, I don't know if they did. That would make it dark since they didn't have electric lights nor allowed prisoners to have candles. Imagine the smell of jailed drunks without wash facilities in a sealed room. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawhorse Kid Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 1 hour ago, sassnetguy50 said: They could mud in wood planks, I don't know if they did. That would make it dark since they didn't have electric lights nor allowed prisoners to have candles. Imagine the smell of jailed drunks without wash facilities in a sealed room. No Light, Fresh Air or Facilities ..... I believe they call that a Tomb. Least they should, cause who are you going to get to clean it ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Bob #61228 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 (edited) You should see some of the places they would put people in medieval times in Europe. A western jail would seem like the Holiday Inn. The underground dungeon at Warwick Castle had a 20 foot deep hole they would throw you into if you really irritated the castle owner. I guess that's where getting thrown under the jail came from. Edited March 10 by Badlands Bob #61228 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 (edited) The jails at Bannack, MT. Original jail on the right, and the roomy updated modern expansion on the left. There is no provision for heat, so with winter temps often well below zero, maybe a prisoner was housed elsewhere in the town. This is where Henry Plummer would have been held until being marched a quarter mile up Hangman's Gulch across the street to the gallows. Edited March 10 by Three Foot Johnson 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot, SASS #13748 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Good way to deter crime. No heat. Open to the elements. Tell a story to all newcomers about the guy that froze and got eaten up by rats and what was left oozed into the floor in the heat. It would probably work for a while. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeaconKC Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 11 hours ago, Cypress Sun said: Ya beat me to it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 I was actually looking for the one that Joe's dad and brothers were trying to yank the bars from the window. Couldn't find it on YouTube so I settled on this one. The one with window bars was hilarious also. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeaconKC Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 5 hours ago, Cypress Sun said: I was actually looking for the one that Joe's dad and brothers were trying to yank the bars from the window. Couldn't find it on YouTube so I settled on this one. The one with window bars was hilarious also. "And I helped!" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Shake n Bake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 https://www.grunge.com/900392/heres-what-jails-were-like-in-the-old-west/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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