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Women On The Stone Pile

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Kansas City, Mo., July 13.- The pólice department of Kansas City, Kas., will begin working women prisoners at breaking stone, the same as the male prisoners. The pólice eommissioners the rule upon the recommendation of Chief Quarles, who argued that women prisoners kept in idleness were not sufficiently punished. "They do not object to going to jail at all; in factsee'm to like it," said the chief. The women will wear coarse overalls, the same as the men. They wil! have no skirts to impede their work.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News