The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-04-23 00:00:00

THE IRISH FENILN PRISONERS.

OT FACTS WITH ISO ARO TO TEI TILT-

MUT OY TEM RAU PRISMILL
(From taw higiosse.)

The following extract' from a diary-bays bean sent on
by a prisoner's relstivs—to comment upon these would
be useless. Let the reader peruse Qom, and then net
himself, whet Irith representatives do in Loudon ? They
—they, by their silence and support, are the gaolers of
those unfortunate prisoners:
. . . . _ .

In the depthrof winter their flannels were taken
from thew at Mountjoy, and their sloths* takes out of
their cells at night; In that mosst they were treated
as escaped fauvist.. This was owned to sash an intent
at Pentonrille, that when the bell would ring at a
quarter to nine at night, the prisoners ehoeld be all
stripped naked, abirering in the odd, until the warder.
came to take away their clothes.
. . . _

"ifoob cold :Wilk.' from the loss of hie
mi ane The gruel which they got for sapper had such
an effect on Luby and Keane as torsos. dysentery, On I
somplaining to the doctor, be said they were malinger- I
log. From thenceforth, while at Peotonville, they got '
nothing but bread and water, as they could not take tlie
IrrueL They were rewired from Pentouville to Port-
land on the 14th of Hay, and were the.. =milks in
Portland before the Soontrgovernor made himself
sequainted with the fact that three two men eould not
take gruel. They wet* all told, on removal, that it was
for tbe bernidit of their health they were sent to Poet-
ised. On their arrival they were kept one hour stripped
waked, waiting for inspection by the dance. Anyone
who attempted to make • statement to the doctor about
his health was told rodely to bold his tongue.
" Kiskinan was then suffering severely from scrotal;
sassed by bad air and loos diet. Wants.e was suffer-
leg from blooding piles. Although be madit several
applications to the dopier, be was still working In the
quarries, losing large quantities of blood every day.
The place where he stood while working used to be
saturated with blood. Hs at length, oe applying to
the director, was taken to the hospital, and after
being •00111 time treated there be was procoonced
incur-
able. In the week ending October 19 be kat a quart of
blood.* _ _ _

"Tbe Ant employment at Portland wu wubing the
oonvicte clothes, in • room the temperature of which
was 140 degrees Several got sickness from washing the
Merman Linea. Charles lJtaderwood O'Connell feinted
from loathing. Kirkham, notwithstanding the state of
his health (with uloen all over hisoblibili), was empl..yed
here with the rest. He was to be removed to
hospital, where he remained for roe weeks. Before
he was cured he was sent to the quarries to blink starch
Tbe overseen oonstantly abated him because be was
not able to do more work. Owing to his estriane short-
sightedoses be was sushi. lotto*. muck work as others;
on this account the officers often shoved hist about in
a most brutal 1701161111 f. He remained at work for
nearly three weeks, although in • wretched state of
health. At this time the doctor never inquired after
him, but at length be became No bad be had to be nr.
moved in the middle of the night to hospital. He there
had to apply to the director /or better food. He said
In reply that he had no authority to order it to him.
He Ina invalided sad sent to Woking. (senn or eight
have been invalided within twelve mouths after their
eonviotion.) At Woking, Hr. Labium. • man of
@dustier; of rellseinest and palms, was smicalated with
• mousier in human fano ;lb. staferinem be iodated in
tronesquees are too shocking to more than merely
allude to.

-7-Nithas the primmen were mat out on the works at
Portland. the Weeks of Mose it which they worked
were about two yarda apart. that being the distends at
which ortinery omelets are kept from sash other.
For about throe weeks after their arrival they .111111
permitted to speak while work*, thee the rammer
suddenly gave an order that they @herald peek loud
enough for the warders to bear them. In a few days
after be changed his mind, and gave orders that they
shoald speak low. On the 14th of July be gave an
order they should not speak at all. Punishment the.
rommeneed lot all who attempted to speak, Lod also for
the prisoners not doing • greater quantity of work, the
officers having informed them they were determined to
work the. properly or punish them.
"Al this time they were exposed to the eserehing rays
of the e.o ; the best was so lateen that the skin peeled
off their nem and their beads swelled to that exteat
they could hardly bold the picks. Some of the tools
were is had the men were repeatedly Waring their
hands. Marin Haply Carey broke two of big Seger, in
that way ; before they got well he was .it out is the
works to tweak Moots with his left hand. The marled
language is mestantly need to them by the omen;
they are repeatedly galled lien by the... The governor
has been beard to tell the warders to bring up leer
or lee of those fellows. swain( the Peden prisoners,
for punishment. On the 14th of September the
governor ordered a number of them to be brought
to usrs
punishment for merely speaking each other. e
got seven days bread and water *ad dark sells, includ-
ing Luby and O'Leary. Luby was Informed hatet
Letter had arrived from his wife, but, as additional
pealehreent for Ma, be wee told this letter would be
forfeited, the coosegeesee of whist' wee that be was
threatened with brain fever.. . . . . . .

" O'Dooograe Rows was almost n soesimat punish-
nl,o. . .

"*honorer it ram and the wind blows from the
west, the °ells invariably heroine damp. The cells are
7 feet lone, 3 feet 10 inebre wide, 7 feet 14h, and
gagged. The priapism ere kept at their week ha the
rota until their shirts biome saturobidL They then
put OT if than • slop imp thirty. They out oentinee
oat working until that heroines thoroughly wet. 71in
they go into • shed ; they are not allowed to do this
anal the priori* °Seer whiitiot, whim they omateh in
two deep to the shed. They hive innrishly under
wash eireumet•poe to go to bid in their inn shills.
They ere now repersted 12 or 14 feet trona sash other,
to deprive thews of any opportunity of suivondrig.
They have to empty • water asset every Ileaday
tioraing ix their turn. Tile dist ceseiati of the follow-
ing :
" Floaday-12 oa. of breed in the morning and II of •
pint of solo.; dinner, glb. of bad armee. and nos of
breed ; sapper, 6... of braid, 2 oi. of agouti grueL
Breakfast sad rapper woo on all other don
" Monday - Dinner, 6 as. of Maio 6 P0361010+ 5 as• 01
5"65. _ _ _

" irroaday—Dinnar, 8 oa. of stinking soup, 5 ornanaaa.
os. at bread. On rouiplasing of the soup Mr rho
Prig"r, b• mid ti was good osonnli for them, mad far
emir than tboy wore in th• IWO or taBBlBl-
- WulaildaY—Dinnar, 5 on of nails., 6 poloaoon
nod 5,.g of brood.
Tharoday —Dinner, Son of podding. annposol el
Goa. of lour, lion of markt soon
" Friday 1 Um same ea Tandy, and Bawdily the
MINI SS licaday."

• Owe ot the primmer% Mains, who oimibad Port-
load hi Jaws", asked ow a/ the doswarlaverhwts
shoot Mr. Itosatroes health. Hs said Ito won bsttsr
SM. oboe Ina Its west there. This *Kw Its had Was
prowassoad iatiarablo sad is tow dare Wars So was
soot to Wokiag. This gostional also said their week
WOO WIM7
I N.8.-tta MU Pa The swarms awl Ilde midasa.
as Po plasma

HYDROPHOBIA. IN DOMAN!.

The 11“. T. Perm, view al Mord" mites so
Mows : - .

-76;easiiiiy weals& April 7.1 woe east hr to me a
dog whisk had killed two bogie wholes, bed kolas
the jaw of the mother, sad lesiseed Mai • yeleabla
sad tavoerite maker, ell the prePart7 el • Neal
wboia I had lett a few days beture Is Looks, sad see
of whose iiersaale bad bees this. through the wrist to
murk( it.
"Beton I rooked the walled pit ia whit Hi was
eesgeed I was eravlatod that the dog was suffering
has rabies. I ligased to that abort perfidies beam
bowl whit it attend at lakerwak, sad whisk, moo
beard, eat sever be luuuesu.
"I was abk to doled that dall gram esker et the
ars whisk eon's over It previous to ils shisratiee. I
saw that it had ket coolrel rim it reueilea sad that
It. cousin of it mouth were lloVered with a raisins
*aim

-1""fbe• load mead melted ft. sad It ow Intifada( aad
plarerfai atter Imaginary admit. Them frump•ome
✓afeaded is.. but I at coot neat for Yr. R. Mose Make,
of Wimbomm a wall-bum mieciaary margeoe.
coollnoad my won* emobilow, sad lit opinion wee
eorroboraled by • port-mortect of tbe doe„ whisk I wh-
ammed. . . . . . .

'Th's enema was empty, but the istsetines were
moderately fall of straw sad Slam indigestible
matter. The sublingual sad parotid gitleal were in -
unwed in ries, and this. wee intim ladaisinaMis of
the larynx.
"Ws at me &strayed the dvi known to he bitten,
and those &bird up in the yard the mad dog entered
are iwoured. Bat sale trammed several miles. hit oni
pig out of about forty, and • gaff, shamed NM cows,
and wanderod over • district aboundiag I. leen dam,
and had that morning left the lowa el Poole, after
stissehine a servant and a postman, IS is gain imeseible
to know tor sone thee how may dap be now broodier
amine madness within an area of twenty miles from the
desk at which I am now writing.
"Last Sunday, jest's' I was going to my Munk I
received a letter from the master of Whnharne Wheel
storming me that is. of sty ems had hem bitten a
AMISS dog, and an may reports a lead dem hi Oat
direction bad been minent, you My readily undesehred
the anxiety with whiela I mkt to that lowa 5.1 mt.
gate the saner.
"Before I scold ia y sou and nosh Mr. Illsierh
resideses I sounted eietstem lee= in the struts,
and I are told that these sun esemepolise the
beryls, emend of Si.. Illmeter, bat that evea with the
seeds of hydrophobia all mad them the megleleedes
are powerless' to maks tits residents mule or mine
their doge 'without a legal AM'
Sorely POO AM Amid be onewl enshileg all inagie•
bane to deal with emb i 5...? The amount of misery
and disaster In stare for as, unless souse meson be
Sib.. to merest tits migrations of them wreeehod ears
throughout the 'Ninny sauna be too strongly pined
before the powers :bah arid I ..,...Sly nurse@ yea
will gin these lines ty, that we may be protected
from that &err at prenent hasp. over as, sad
which will sot b• remedied nelson some AM I. paned or
power trine to the magfatessy boycott that whiek they
have hitherto posemesd.•