The first courts handled crimes like lying, idleness and card
playing with punishments that ranged from fines to public whipping
to death by hanging. Constables kept order until Portsmouth's first
police officer took up the shield in 1800. But no force could keep
all crime at bay. The court sentenced the beautiful, educated Ruth
Blay to hanging on shaky evidence that she might have killed her
baby. Business magnate Frank Jones played corrupt politics,
succumbed to extramarital temptations and helped make Water Street
the red-lighted rum hole destination of the eastern seaboard.
Mischievous sailors came into port looking to spend their money,
finding ample opportunity in Portsmouth's bowery bordellos. Retired
Portsmouth police officer David "Lou" Ferland traces the history of
Portsmouth crime and justice from the first courts to today's
award-winning police department.
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