Judge Stack Says Jail Must Be Improved or He Will Indict County Commissioners, April 13, 1925

Says Catawba Must Build a Modern Jail

Newton, April 11—Judge Stack, in closing the special term of Catawba court this afternoon, directed the clerk of court to enter upon the minutes that the report of the grand jury on the unsanitary and inhumane conditions under which the jailer is compelled to keep prisoners, he considered a representment against the board of county commissioners.

He further ordered that entry be made on the minutes that unless provision be made and steps taken by the county commissioners before the opening of July term of court that the solicitor bring indictment against the commissioners individually.

From the front page of The Concord Times, Monday, April 13, 1925

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