Jonathan
Horsfall
Cincinnati Daily Press, Monday, 7 May 1860, page 4
The following is a summary of the opinion of the Mayor, in the case of the city of Newport vs. Joseph Selman, in which the defendant was charged with unlawfully detaining the keys of the jail from his successor.
The defendant is charged with "refusing to deliver to his successor in office the keys and buildings of the City Jail and with obstructing him in the discharge of his duties" under an ordinance of the City Council approved April 6, 1860.
The defendant was appointed by the City Council jailer in March 1859 and took possession of the old jail building and entered upon the duties of his office. In March 1860, Jonathan Horsfall was appointed jailer. Selman still claiming the office and possession of the building in the city in April 1860, commenced against him an action of forcible detainer. This resulted in a verdict for the city.
On the 27th April 1860 Horsfall made a regular demand upon Selman for the keys, buildings and other jail property.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, Saturday, 4 March 1865, page 1
Since the act increasing the fees of jailers from 40 to 75 cents per day, for boarding prisoners, passed the Legislature, there has been a great falling off in the number of boarders at Mr. Horsfall's Castle. Before the passage of the act Jonathan had six or eight regular prompt paying lodgers. Now he has none. If the boarders hold out much longer in opposition to the strike of the Newport Jailer, we are afraid he will have to yield by returning to his old rates.
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Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Tuesday, 6 November 1866, page 1
The present jailer, Jonathan Horsfall, has for the past seven years, been acting by regular annual appointment, living with his family in a part of the jail and having charge of the public square and all of the public buildings thereon. It is considered on all hands he is eminently qualified for his position by reason of his strict integrity, courage, humanity and courtesy.
At the recent term of our Criminal Court, Henry Hamilton, who in August last, was elected jailer of the county by the rebels, commenced proceedings by rule against Horsfall, to oust him of his position and thereby to take out of the hands of the city all her public buildings erected by the taxes of the city, and to surrender her poor, her vagrants and her prisoners and place them in the hands of a stranger over whom she has no control.
The Court sustained the motion of Hamilton and the city will appeal to the Court of Appeals which Court in December will decide. J R Hallam and R T Baker, appeared for Hamilton and O W Root and E W Hawkins for Horsfall and the city.
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Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Saturday, 18 June 1870, page 1
A special meeting of the Dayton Ky. City Council was held Thursday night. A bill was presented by T K Edwards, due John Horsfall, Jailer of Newport, for $14.50 and ordered to be paid.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, Tuesday, 18 April 1871, page 8
Last evening between 6 and 7 pm Jonathan Horsfall, Jailer of Newport, Kentucky, was thrown from his buggy on the corner of Third and Main streets, in this city, and was dashed with such violence against the curbing the blood flowed in a stream from his mouth and nose. Mr. Horsfall was accompanied by Robert Townsend, also of Newport, but the latter managed to retain his seat and was uninjured.
An examination of Mr. Horsfall's injuries in the Hammond Street Station house showed the skull was fractured, and the flow of blood was the result of internal injury so serious as to cause the gravest apprehension in the minds of two or three physicians. Mr. Horsfall was conveyed home in a carriage. It appears the accident was caused by the horse, which was young and unbroken, shying suddenly, which unseated Mr. Horsfall and dashed him over the side into the street.
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Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Wednesday, 26 April 1871, page 4
Jailer Horsfall is slowing recovering from the severe injuries received last week by being thrown from his buggy in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati Daily Times, Saturday, 15 June 1872, page 3
Jonty Horsfall, the clever and faithful little jailer of Newport, thinks he has had injustice done him in a Dayton item concerning one John Spronk, appearing lately. He says the mittimus did not show any charge of assault or anything else and recommends Mayor Chadwick to run his eye over the law in such cases made and prevailed. We think Jonty may be relied on to do this full duty.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Wednesday, 14 October 1874, page 7
Mrs. Jonte Horsfall yesterday morning escorted a colored female prisoner to Covington and saw her duly incarcerated there. If Jonte, who was born to be Newport's Jailer ever retires from business, Mrs. Horsfall will be able to get that office every time she runs for it.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, Monday, 9 October 1876, page 7
Our old friend Uncle Jonte Horsfall, who for twenty years has been jailer of Newport and deserved a re-election, although he failed to get it, has gone a fishing. He couldn't stand the racket.
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Cincinnati Daily Star, Monday, 9 October 1876, page 4
Jonte Horsfall, Jailer, will leave for his farm in Indiana as soon as his term of office expires.