Historic Chambersburg PA Jail

Last weekend my cousin and I took a tour of the historic Chambersburg PA jail that was built in the 1800's. It was very interesting. In one of the cells that you could go into, the most recent paint is peeling off the wall revealing some writing done by one of the prisoners in 1945. He must have been some character. In the first photo, you can see where he wrote that he'd been in jail 142 times! He decided to write down what he had to eat and that list is in the second photo. He got very poetic in the third photo. We couldn't find out too much about him when we researched his name, but we did find out in 1943 he escaped with others from the jail two times in one night and returned by the escape route while he was serving a sentence for vagrancy. Also in 1943 he violated his parole on the prison break charge when he was arrested on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct. He was sentenced to six months in jail and to pay the costs. I couldn't find any kind of obituary for him so the poor guy probably had no family to give him a funeral. I think he was born in 1908 so I'm sure he passed away. So sad. (Click on the photos below to make them bigger.)