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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Dorchester has, for over 120 years, been home to the Maritime Federal Penitentiary. A display in the Coach House of the Keillor House museum features a number of interesting artifacts known as the Penitentiary Collection. Included are such items as sets of "Oregon Boots", contraband weapons and the infamous "whipping bench". Also close at hand to the museum is the former County Jail, parts of which were constructed in 1880 on land donated by John Keillor. This jail had the dubious distinction as the site of the last double hanging in New Brunswick when the Bannister brothers were put to death in 1936. The jail, now in private hands, fronts on the village "Square", which was once home to no less than 14 lawyers.
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