Allen County’s first jail is brimming with ghosts.
Some are trying to escape. Others teeter on the brink of madness. A few are just plain drunk and disorderly.
Last time I walked by, the specter of Ada Rogers was busy sneaking her incarcerated husband various firearms, irrepressibly repeating an event from the summer of 1881.
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