A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 49: what you’re looking at

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A SERVANT OF SATAN. 41 afterward the police-van, which in French bears the eupho- nic name of ‘‘ Panier a Salade” (Salad Basket), drew up at the door of the station-house, and Rose, with most of the women who had spent the night in the same cell with her, was bundled into the dismal conveyance. .The latter then rattled off through the streets along which she had last driven reclining lazily on the soft cushions of her victoria, to the well-known prison in the Faubourg St. Denis, within the walls of which even an hour’s sojourn is sufficient to brand a woman with infamy for the remainder of her days. On alighting in the court-yard of St. Lazarre, Rose was taken to the clerk’s office, where her name, age, and origin were entered on the prison register. She gave her name as Rose Hartmann, her age as twenty-five, and declared, in response to the inquiries on the subject, that she had no profession and was of German extraction. From thence she was passed on to the hands of ‘‘ Madame la Fouilleuse,” as the searcher is nicknamed, who made her strip, and, after having searched her clothes and even her hair, bade her put on the prison dress, consisting of coarse linen under- clothes, blue cotton hose, thick shoes, a brown stuff dress, brown woolen cap, and large blue cotton cloth apron. The prison regulations at St. Lazarre were then and are still very severe. ‘The prisoners have to get up at five o’clock in the morning. They sleep four together in one room, and have no other toilet utensils than small pitchers of water and basins no bigger than a moderate-sized soup plate. This makes their morning bath a rather difficult operation. Their meals, except when they are allowed meat on Sundays, consist of a dish of thin vegetable broth, a piece of brown bread, and fricasseed vegetables. While they are at table, a Sister of the religious order of Marie- Joseph reads aloud to them extracts from some pious book. Ten hours of the long, weary day are spent in doing plain _ needlework, and they have to be in bed for the night at cS €o =) 2 | | EOmMmIchboo