The jail was reduced to a pile of rubble Tuesday September 22, 2009. The jail was closed in March 2005 after black mold was discovered.
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"In 1844, a brick building was constructed on the site of the present jail, two stories high, containing four rooms The building itself cost some eighteen hundred dollars and the equipment was poor. The enrollment at that period was 114 pupils."
11 Oct 1923 The Republican Herald
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NIP IS SUPPLIED PRISONERS Three Are Charged With Furbishing Liquor To Prisoners In Pike County Jail Little Jack White and Arthur Wittkugle of Waverly
were arrested Tuesday by Sheriff Ernest Dowdle, Deputy William Anderson
and State Prohibition Officer C. A. Lucas, charged with furnishing
liquor to prisoners in the Pike County jail by handling it through a
broken window.
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Wesley Albert Cool died on Thursday, August 2, 1945, at
the age of 42 years, 6 months and1 day. His death occurred very
suddenly while driving an automobile in his official duties as Deputy
Sheriff, just north of Waverly, Ohio, on U.S. Highway 23, near Alma.
At the time he was returning from Columbus, he was accompanied by his
young son. There was no advance notice or indication of his
condition. So far as was known his health was fairly good,
although he had recently been treated for what was though to be minor
ailments, and the first indication that anything was strong was when he
slumped over the steering wheel and the car ran over an embankment into
a fence. His death was due to heart failure. He was born on
a farm in Pee Pee Township, Pike county, Ohio, in the Peck community and
when he was about 10 years of age his family moved to Huntington
township, Ross county, where he resided until he grew to manhood.
He was the son of Samuel Albert Cool, a member of a pioneer and
prominent Pike county family. |
Sheriff 1935-1945
Sheriff Robert Edward Mercer and Deputy Samuel D. Hamilton
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On Christmas Eve, as Sheriff Jones was recounting to a couple of his
friends how he had, a few moment’s before made each of his prisoners a
present, he little dreamed that at that very moment three of his birds
were then crawling forth to liberty through a hole they had cut through
the ceiling of the jail, but such was the case, as the Sheriff a few
moments afterwards ascertained on counting his boarders and finding he
had but one left. The escaped prisoners where the McLaughlin
boys, charged with burglary, and a chicken thief named Taylor. |
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