Calaboose

I called the sergeant-major back in to lock the cell, then stepped with him into the desk area of the Calaboose, where three guards, in various states of leisure, lounged in their blue uniforms.

Nutrition 2010

The accused murderer stood in the holding cell of the old Calaboose, the same jail the French and Spanish had used here in New Orleans, her arms folded, her face half hidden in shadow.

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The Calaboose was little better than a torture chamber where the French and Spanish had dealt out their harsh punishments -- fifty lashes for thievery, fifty lashes for blasphemy, one hundred lashes for "crimes against the Crown."

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"Lieutenant Langford arrested three women last night, before he was killed, and brought them to the Calaboose ...."

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"Sar'nt, when Lieutenant Langford left the Calaboose, were all your men inside?"

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He could have staggered out of the Calaboose, come upon Anne Carmaux, and provoked a response he wasn't expecting.

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Jeffries led me out of the Calaboose along the alley running from St. Peter St.eet to the alley alongside St. Louis Cathedral.

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"Did he provoke you again, after you left the Calaboose?"

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"Did you see Lieutenant Langford after you left the Calaboose?"

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He awaits sentencing and hopes to minimize his time in the Calaboose by bringing all the others in his web of corruption in with him.

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