The Huron Expositor, 1972-03-16, Page 12Unit Meets
Unit 1 of Northside.U.C.W.
met at the home of Mrs. Hog-
garth and Miss Ruth ChM on
Tuesday of last week.
Vhe President opened the
meeting with a St. Patrick's
POem and thanked those who
helped with the turkey dinner in
February and also to those who
donated tea towels for the church
kitchen.
IVirs. NI. E. Reuber and Mrs.
Gordan Papple had charge of
the program. Mrs. Close read
the scripture and Mrs. Papple
read a story. Two African rec-
ords were listened to and the
ladies learned these songs.
Mrs. Reuber took as her topic
The United Church at Canada in
Partnership with Churches is
Africa. Mrs. MoKenzie gave
courtesy remarks.
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Huron's 130 Year Old Jail Closes
(By W. E. Elliott)
Huron county's 130-year-old
jail, at present leased to the
Province, stands on a site which
cost the municipality just about
$500. The building itself cost
$23,672 when constructed in 1841.
It's construction was part of a
deal with the government of the
Province of Canada, which passed .
legislation setting up an admin-
istrative area comprising Huron
and some townships now in sruce
and Perth. Negotiations were
conducted by the magistrates in
this area. They obtained the jail
site from the Canada Company,
owner of 'the Huroa Tract, and
it has .always been said that
this was "granted." Evidently
it was no{ exactly free.
Curiously no record is found
of the land transfer in or about
1839, when the site was cleared.
It was July 9, 1861 when the
company sold to the Municip-
ality of Huron and Brtice fots
503, 504, 505, 585 and 586 Com-
prising an acre and a quarter.
From this it. seems likely that
the jail stood for a period of
about 20 years on a site the
county did not own. County min-
utes also show that in 1861 the
Warden was authorized to pur-
chase Lots 502 and 584 (adjoin-
ing the "jail) from the Canada
Company ""in order to carry out
improvements recommended by
the board of prison inspectors."
The original lots, 503, 504,
' 505, 585, and 586, were con-
veyed, on behalf of the Company,
by Frederick Widder and William
B. Robinson, Toronto, in con-
sideration of five shillings gilaw-
ful money of the 'Province of
Canada." Witnesses were
Thomas Collier and Alfred W.
Otter.
Maybe we 'should cut Bruce in „
on the sale price; it was a part-
ner in 1861.
A jail in every county town
of Ontario is no longer needed,
Hon. Allan Grossman said when
in Goderich seven years ago last
November. The Reform Institu-
tions Minister visited the jail
here and reported that it had
the same problems as most other
county jails in the province:
overcrowding, antiquated facilit-
ies, lack of treatment and class-
ification facilities •and inadequite•
segregation of inmates.
At that time, the talk was of
regional jails, - fer example a
three-county unit for Goderich,
Walkerton and Owen Sound, or
in the aternative a four-county
unit for Goderich, Stratford,
London and St.' Thomas,FA.more
recent plan is providing Elgin
and Middlesex with a regional
jail, at $3,000,000 or some such
amount.
The 130-year old jail in dod-
erich, now to be closed, cost
4,8.68 pounds sterling, which at
the rate long in use would be
$23,672. The original estimate
was--.2.,680 pounds. The magis-
trates, governing authority prior
to .county organization, had ideas
of their own; their Toronto arch-
itect, Thomas Young, finally left
them to finish the job.
The magistrates-notably Dan
Lizars and William B. Rich,
had petitioned the Legislative
Assembly for an administrative
area, and Dr. William Dunlop,
elected member in 1841, suc-
-ceeded in getting legislation
promising this when "a suitable
jail and courthouse" were pro-
vided. •
'• Anticipating a favorable out-
come, William Geary 'stumped
and cleared the site in the all
of 1839., Geary was a contrac-
tor, active in land transactions,
and had married a daughter 'of
William B. Rich. He operated
stages to Stratford and 'London,
se probably Used horses in clear-
ing the wooded site.
William Day, of GoderiCh;
lowest tenderer, got the building
contract. 'He erected stonewalls
two feet thick, 'from the Mait-
land River quarry, and when a
better stone was desired for the
copings, Dan Lizars was dis-
patched to Port Huron to neg-
otiate with a quarry there. The
magistrates thoughtfully provi-
ded , for a chapel in the central
tower, but when they found there
was no money for construction
or rental of a courthouse, they
assigned the chapel to the judges.
- In their capacity of building in-
spectors; 'they decided the tower
roof should be seven inches
steeper., to carry off rain water,
and that was where they parted
company with the architect,
The magistrates at this time
included three from that part of
the Huron District which is now
in Perth: John Corry, Wilson
Daly and Robert Donkin. The
other were John MacDonald, Wil-
liam Robertson, W. B. Rich, John
Bignall, Henry RansfOrd, Henry
Hyndman, Isaac Adamson, Daniel
Lizars, Capt. Robert G. Dunlop,
William Fisher Gooding, William
Dunlop and Thomas Mercer
Jones.
The Canada Company, owner
of 1,100,000 acres in the Huron.
Tract, granted the jail site, and
the directors in. London appreved
a loan of 1,300 pounds toward
construction of the buildingjThis
was soon spent, and application
was made for a further 1,000
pounds. It was rejected by
Thomas Mercer Jones' one of.
the magi,strates but also Canada
Company Commissioner. Re-
mainder of the money was raised
on the credit of the District.
Henry Ransford, tr asurer,
coniplained that the Canada Com —
pany charged the District "the
Canadian rate, • of interest, '8.
per cent," for money he said
could be borrowed in England
for three or four.
The ex-chapel on the top floor
of the jail' was soon 'in disfavor
with ,visiting judges, who com-
plained of the awkward access and
jail odors. They began to hold
court in the dining-room of the
British Exchange Hotel on market
square, and were still doing so
when the first courthouse was
completed in 1856. The register
of the "British" has borne the
signatures of Sir Beverley Rob- .
inson, Sir Richard Cartwright,
Sir H. L. Lengevin, Sir Adam
Wilson, Sir Matthew Cameron,
Sir John Thompson; Sir Thomas
Galt, major-General Luard and
many distinguished counsel, Pro-
prietors of the British were,
In turn, Isaac Rattenbury, Thom-
as Dark, George Hobson, Sam
Dutton and J. J. Wright.
First meeting, of the newly
constituted Huron council was
'held in February, 1842, at Rat-
tenbury's Hotel, for which the
innkeeper received two pounds.
Councillors present were Wil-
liam Chalk, Archibald 'Dickson,
J, C. W. Daley, John Galt, Geo.
Gordon, Andrew Helmer, John
Holmes, Robert Hodgins, James
Hodgins, John Hawkins, John
McIntosh, William McConnell,
William Geary and John Sebring.
By late Spring of 1841, almost
everyone In town and surrounding
area had visited the new jail at
least once. 59 much mud was
carried in that Charles Slack,
newly appointed jailer (at 60
pounds per annum) obtained an
order to keep visitors out. This
order seems to have been con-
tinued in effect for 130 years.
In 1911, Edward Jardine was
hanged in this jail after being
convicted of the murder of Liz-
zie Anderson. He was tried before
Chief Justice Falconbridge and a
jury, with George T. Blackstock
as Crown prosecutor, and L. E.
Dancey as defence counsel.
Forty-eight , years later, on
June 12, 1959, the jail received
another youth, accused of a sim-
ilar crime. Steven Murray Trus-
cott, charged with the murder of
Lynne Harper at the RCAF sta- '
tion at Clinton, received a pre.-
. liminary hearing in July, At a
September assize presided over
by Mr. Justice R. I. Ferguson,
a jury convicted him, recom-
mending mercy. He was senten-
ced to be hanged. An appeal
to the appellate, ?eil vision' of Ont-
ario Supreme COurt was rejected
in the following January. The
sentence was commuted by fed-
eral cabinet to life imprisonment.
Truscott was sent to Guelph Re-
' formatory and later Collins' Bay.
He was freed on parole three
years ago.
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