Thomas Taylor
Kentucky Post, Monday, 1 July 1895, page 6
A prisoner had thrown a brick through one end of the jail and a general jail delivery was liable to follow. Sergeant Willis and a detail of officers hurried to the scene to learn a crowd of hobos that had just been locked up had become disgusted with the vile hole which the county had seen fit to dignify with the title of jail an had given expression to their sentiments by hurling a brick against the wall and make an aperture in the partition between the cell room and the kitchen almost large enough for a man to squeeze through.
The noise attracted the attention of Jailer Tom Taylor who summoned the police. The prisoners were all secured and the hole patched up.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 3 October 1895, page 7
Al Lyons, Deputy County Clerk in looking up the books of registration, found that a number of supposed prisoners had registered in the Second Ward. The reporter called on Tom Taylor, the jailer, with regard to the prisoner registering. "I know nothing of it," said the jailer, "only that Pete Cassidy, who is serving a sentence for being drunk, and is working in the yard with the gate open, cutting wood for the winter and if he went out to register I don't know of it. He lives with is brother at 407 Columbia Street, Newport.
Pete Peck is a trusty. As for Ed Christy, he is not a prisoner but has his home here. Ed cannot leave drink alone and I promised to give him a home here if he would quit it."
The jailer concluded by saying that this was brought up on the eve of election to hurt his chances. Gus Rippleton, whom a morning paper refers to, is my cook.