They would curse at him and kick him; they would search him on the street, or break into his own house, if they felt like it, and if he protested, like as not they would crack his head open. And if that did not shut him up, they would drag him to the station-house and lock him in and he might stay there two or three days without any one’s knowing where he was. Often they did not even enter his name on the station-house
