In the year 1903 Mrs. Kirkwood Clare took a photo that showed our jail located on Oak Street across from the old Endeavor Hall near the school bridge. Photos from a Trette family album and the Louis Stein Collection also show the jail in this location.

To return the jail to its original design, the Gomez garage addition was removed. A new door was fabricated with a hasp and bolt saved by Will Frank from a discarded door at Clayton's old Mt. Diablo Winery. A concrete foundation was laid, the roof replaced, electricity installed.

The old term "thirty days or thirty dollars" proves to be true in most of the cases documented in the Clayton Justice of Peace Ledger 1893-1921.

The Charge: "Wilfully and maliciously driving his horse at a fast and un- usual rate of speed on the public streets of the Town of Clayton." The Judge's decision, "Wherefore it is by this court ordered and adjudged as a punishment for the offence of fast- driving on the streets of Clayton... that you, the said Defendant—do pay a fine of $30.00 or be imprisoned in the County Jail...until the fine be duly satisfied in the proportion of one day's imprisonment for every dollar of the fine."

During this period of time the most common crime was DEBT. This was followed by Battery, Larceny, Drunk, Disturbing the Peace, Battery and Threat to Kill, Malicious Mischief, Unsound Mind, Abusive and Vulgar Language, Indecent Exposure, Grand Larceny, Vagrancy, Slander, Threats, Highway Robbery, Murder, Cruelty to Animals, Desertion, Damage of Property, Burglary, Contempt of Court, and Arson.