Ex parte Waterman

The petitioner, having been convicted in the United States district court for the Eastern district of New York, under section 5457 of the Eevised Statutes, was, on the eleventh of October, 1886, sentenced to he imprisoned at hard labor in the state prison at Auburn for the term of three years. On the sixteenth of October, the marshal transported her to Auburn, but the warden of the prison, not being permitted by the laws of the state to receive females, refused to admit her. On the same day,—October 16th,—the court, during the same session, but in the absence of the defendant, made an order…