The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-11-25 00:00:00

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'THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1484.

Gie Monday 'meant • tea and estertaintneat took involved greet expense. No asenplelathai previously He is reported to hive stated that be wee an
oleos is connection with the St. John's Brach . f the been made ity the prisoners. They had not done any abstainer, but, as th matt he had been rather too out.
Church of England Temperance Asa Mallon. About work eines I swine St. Sebastopol, end they bed since /poke°, he hatead to ray that he would not interfere
230 set down to the tea, end in the evening the been kept In matody, apart front the rest of the crew. with the liqu ii Weds. That is Indeed kind of his
schoolroom was filled. when the foil .wlng etc...fiat The ebtp was only .even mouths old, aid woe pro- Worship, sad those p:ment, as well as those mitaiie
mormitsse wee capitally rendered :—Glee (908th party filial to tp to wa. interested in it. will be very roach obliged to him for
sone), " Our Father.," the Choir Polo and ch rue By Stephens :H. did not my the *hip was too this gracious promise forbearena.. But what on
(224). " Chubby George, ' Mr. Loaleas end Chit'; dap iii weter. He threatens I te wog one or two of earth the teroperanos commuoity ul Weymouth will
col "Greasy'. Story," Mre. Col.; solo, "A Little them if they •Ii int te atet using bad ben g nage.— think of such • conflicting watemeot it is had to may.
Milk." Mr. Eingleir ; reclatioe. Mr. Crawford; Priamer :We he.. been confined to • plea 3ft. i)n. He is an abstainer, mil yet will not interfere with
part song (308), " Home, Sweet Home," die Choir; since the 3-.1 of N,,amber. the trade. From what then does he absteln, and to
vol.. ''r.. Children'. Queen," Ma Cola; polo, "A By Garde: Toe ship was desper then she would what body of absteiners does be belong It Is to be
Thousand • Year," Kr. White ; silo and chortle (328), hose been lied they it • sulfisisot supply of anal/ hoped as is unattached, or he will boon be asked by
"1. Good King George's r pert wag (202). "Kok for the voyage. He told them they had their remedy, his ithateinitaft Meads I 'ran esplenetioo of that hard
Me to Sleep," the (Noir. Addressee wen glv.o by —By Wood : He did not say the 'hip wee too deeply saying. Faitiug which they may nay to him m St.
In. Rev. Orison Stephens*n ad the Mayor, Mr. laden. .r did be " C inas to Dm and you will have John wee bidder. to sty to the angel of the church of
Rowland Trionme, on Temperance. your remedy in Esiland." , the Leexilosens, end that perhaps would not roles any
Tenon COUltell IMPaossetturs.—A barge end By an-thee prisoner : They could bias got &don, kindly feeling in his beat toward. them Hie
influatat meeting was held at the Holy Trinity but not without sorting • boat. Worship, however, holds it to be hi. duty to do all he
Illealoo-ball on Thursday evening, the bushier bets; By the Magistrates' Clerk: The crew numbers 93, can to prevent intemperance, but how be will swaps.-
forth, purpose of wandering the restoration. ad, if all told. He was b nand for Duakerque, and the 15 fully discharge this duty without interfering with the
is utterly beyond my oomprehension. If it be
thought advisable, the enlargement of Trinity Church, were all going AMMO. we&
sad the formation of • loarkh dab for men, and build. The chief Aloe', Edward Bowlegs, said they had his ditty (sad it is every ma's) to *appro.. intemper-
bag • parochial institution, ormeistino of club awl gstra finished loading on the 3rd of November, at 12 o'cl wok, anon, to mast In removing the stumbling block from
10Cana sad • gellieral MATO for perish waders. It and pat to MI between Ave and six in the evening. ' our path, to soil away Our 114103141, our national sin ;
erns decided not to think of enlarging the aback at They were fully laden with-grain and coal, he ship if, hay, it be his duty to do all this, and he can d
present, but to oompletely redoes it by cleaning it was too inches lighter on the main than she was on ' it without interfering with tits teed*. tits SolUee
of
Ittroughly, repowint, sad repairing the windows, kA, her firmer voyage. She was In a fit condition to gr this national Upas tree, then be has Indeed made a
It was estimated £l,OOO would be required. Many to me or he would not Lave gone. The Black Sea i discovery which will earn for him everlasting dretdude
substantial ofiere were made in the room, amongst half &eh water, end the ship would n4be to buoy from every disciple of Bacebta. I
which wer•—blesers. Devestieb,oo ,• Mr. J.Mit Groves, ant there a, aba would in the Meditereareami. If, however. he be an abstainer, it is most far to him
£3O; Mr. Hugh Stake, £3O; Rev F. B. Sorrier, £25; Prisoners did not oomplain until witosai gays ordere as such to assume that be will interfere with the trade,
Mr. T. Snook, LIO ; Mr. H. Wheeler. £10; Mr. to unmoor the ship, and they refused to odo so until and his direction to the polka NO= to point in that
Prescott, £10; a Lett, LIO ; Mr. Arden, £10; M.. H. they bed seen the captain. The voyage was lenstheued Way, otherwise we might infer that, like that goal
J. Grove', Ses ; Mr. Wet handl. £5. A committee was seam or eight hours in consequence, end the men bed WWI which Alton deplete as being anxious to pleas
then elected to twasider and *any out this matter. A not done any work dna. They refused duty and • everybody, his Worship, to Plasm the luel4telere. ''''-
oommlttme wee oleo elected to carry out the matter of [reek' crew wee shipped. nounose blunted an atualosr, end to plea-e those who
the perish Meth, and It was magenta d some beano' In answer to the pitapat, witness said he told were not, that he will not interiors with the liquor
should be obtained end converted into • club-room them that he ha.) nothing to do with the ship being trede. This., however, may be taken for grade 1 that ,
till something larger should be required. too deep. Q. : Did you know what she 1,411 draw if his Worship will nit Interfere, others must. an I
AB ID FilalltLs.—A. woman, named Sash Heat tor : I heard from the captelo.—Prisoner eventually will, and they who are not for us are
fad, evilest whom the Superintendent stated there That Is only hearsay. (Slight apple tad —W. / against us, and they who gather not scatteretb ahem
l.
were elz coeviotions, was charred, together with her should think that was enough. 'Tis true every man kills not the thing he does not
married daughter, X.: limbeth Gates, at the Borough The chief engineer aid they had 345 tops WI love, but with" Soylodt" we mar Hates any
Police Court on Tualey, with being drunk and noels when they darted from Ste Sebastopol, end raw men the thine he wou!il not kill," and if my would
refuels; to leave the White Hart, and on • second gunned on an average *boot 18 t in. daily. have • serpent sting him teria ? He that knoweth to
summon, with being drunk and riotous in the polio The steward said he had no 011-ction to work on do good and doetn it not, to him it is sio. —Apolo-
strata. —P.O. that, • new member ol the form, gave board the ship, and had no ground for °Member; to thing for 'gumming so far on your eimoo, I aut, sir,
evidence. lie Mated that he WM In St. Thomas Inave Sebastopol. yours obediently.
street end beard • nola,sod on going to the White Hui By the Prisoner: He thought the vassal was deep Ag AlltrallftL (0.E.T.3.
fount the defendants, whom the landlord request d in water. November 17th, 1884,
to learn—They refusa), and witness and the landlord There wee some feeling manifested in favour of the
met this. out. They were drunk and riot .us, and be Kiernan and, as &polecat was frequent, the Mart
&hogwashs found them in Lower Bond-street, Gates' was cleeied.
husband asked him sot ti look his wife up, and he One of the primmer, asked for the atteadanoe of
woeld take her home which be did. Oliver,the some of the crew, but Mr. Polly Hooper opp mod an
landlord of the White Hart, mid the defied...Hs with adi ournmect unties they were prepared to pay COO
Gates husband and an elderly woman came to his ezoeis.
hems on Thursday. The deleadeate made use of bad Tbe Bona reload to grant the applioattoo, and
bagasse, sad on his asking the moil of the data- the prisoners, in defence, alleged that the ship was
Imam the younger woman said she would have mother below the line when they started from Sebastopol, and
quart. Hs tried to get them out of the home, but as when they got to Constantinople they could not lad,
they would notgo he railed la the pub.:team, and they as they would have to be five days In quarantlne.
put than cranih. The young woman would have ems One of them said the captain ree4sn to do for
quietly had it not been for her mother, who made nee him but for the laws of his coon .
of dismzetini leagnage—Q. Were they both drunk?— Th Beach retired, and, after • c onstiltatioo
Witness TM/ did not appear drunk.'-.: Were returned into Court, and announced that they muitenced
they the won* for Ikea I—Witness: Well, they them to aja wake hard labour each,
smeared S. hare been drinking something strong.—.
Gaga willed her husband for the defence, and be
stated that on hie arrival with his dip his wife and
her mother met Itint, and they went to the White
Hart and had • quart of beer between them. He
wont away, end on hie return he found hie wilt on
some stones. He picked her on and took her home--
The Mayor sommerided the Landlord fog the manna
In which he had acted, sind said Handord would be
lined SL or 14 deys' hard lebour, and the daughter
10e. or 7 days—The money was ;aid.

AROUND THE CLIFFS OF PORTLAND. I
From Bleak.« Point the land gradually elope
towards the Bill, the dist MOO Whig l 111044. Tn..
I. little along the route landwards *alike fec oberve-
tion. The seagulls are hovering (nodally within •
few yards of the precipitous cliffs in which they
build their nests. The soft autumn breezes from the
wee an most exhilarating the while, production •
feeling of hunger far more agreeable and natnral than
all the drugs of • chemist's shop amid ever produce.
0, ye doctors, why do you not oftener prescribe •
does of °see and welt cliff for your laoguelsing
patiente. Tripping onwards I par a small flock of
sheep, or • flock of small sheep; both are squally
correct. They are horned and winkled, and I coon.
dole they are living specimens of the toothsome
Portlaad mutton; tat puntei, it may be remarked the'.
Portland mcton is frequently met with in far off
towns. Query :—Can it all be veered on Pordaad
Isle? Impossible, say I. unless these hardy little
sheep have • liking for, and cut digest, stone. I may I
' be pardoned for here introdudiur • subject which the
• part I am now traversing, said the rooks below
t=ti, and over which some of the old Port-
wax eloqoent. I refer to smuggling.
I which was practiced rather extensively betwildll
140 and 50 years ago. The rooks below have wit-
! messed the landing of =Loy contraband oargoes, the
ladventures of which, the success, narrow escape of
, eigare, and the general working of the eontreband
' artioles, would, Lf written, fill • volume of the kind of
truth which is said (by • mean writer) to be °Mime.
stranger than fiction. lam told the nodal ograndi
it obtain the goods was often in this way. The
leading smuggler (a fisherman) would launch as runiel
to fish, so as not to excite suspicion, but Instead of
returning at nightfall he would he mot at • previously
arrang.d point (children were often need for title and
take in a supply ol food, with other requisites, and
straightway under the cover of night this solitary
individual would make for the opposite coast of
Franc-. I have Baguet to some strange adveetures,
bat as the lighthouse is tenni I will quit the subject,
with the remark that children, so I am assured, took
an active part in distributing the contraband good. to
customers on the Island. This remark does not sp ly
to ths working from the rocks, but simply to tn.
dietributiag. At Bill Point, should tin tide be low,
the tourist will find much to engage his atte 'Won the
long low ridges of rock. era gate • contrast to any
other part of the Island, ari numerous beautifully clear
pools are at hand teerni g with If. ; while to toe
collector of mere& the place would have asii especial
charm, am the olive, the rel, and the green seaweed are
here I. rich profusion. To toe • tat of the Bill one
passes Cave Hole, which derives its name from what
it really is, vie., • cave with • hole, the bole being
In the roof, through which one gets • good view of the
cave. Al low tide, however, this cave may be eatene i
by the pedestrian and folly explored. I heel great
*entre in don( this ; the 01111 mely shaped rocks
beer evidence of the mighty f.nom at work around;
but without staying to note here all that attracted
my atteotion, I haeten on with the remark that to the
obeervaot mind • visit t, the place would be both
intereting and instructive. Regaining the top of
the cliff, I continue my walk. To the left are the two
lighthouses, noble nionumeos of civilisation, cheering
to and at the same time wening the voyager of dein
gem near. With the I should like to point a moral
concerning other deafen far more subtle, and to
neommeed the beacon warnings of Him who mays,
"I am the Light of the world." On reaching Weston
Point one gets • grand bit of emery. True, It is of
a rugged type, still, In my humble opinion, the like
cannot be equalled in the county of Dorset, It. very
ruggedness lemming to •Id to its attraction. I refer
to the east weir and the cliffs, which lie open to a
ooneiderable distance ; in fact, to near where the
prison is built. The weir, with its confusion of rocks
, and foliage, makes a charming picture, while the ivy.
emptied cliffs on one side, and the peel.. blue tinted
sea on the other, can but add to it. effect. Leaving
the quiet, sleepy little village of Soothwell on my
left. I plod on the while, thinking that the
, village referred to is even worse in its dilapidation
and general appmiranes than it was • decade ors° ego,
while it seems like the irony of fate that this village
should be blamed with the finest piece of architecture
of which the Island oan boast. The Avalanche
Church is admittedly a gem of the first water. On
reaching the grounds of Pennsylvania Castle (descend
the Oil( and cros.ing Church Hope Cove, I climb to
the cal on the opposite side; on reaching which,
pause sebile, look's( upon the ruins of B'w and
Arrow Castle, which is supposed to have been built
In the reign of William Rufus. From the points of
vantage one may ale° get a peep at Pennsylvania Cetle,
buileby old Squire Peon, A. the aged Islander. still
say, it is comparatively of recent date, and is
rounded by by • fine growth of sycamore and elm trees.
Between the cantle and the sea are the ruins of an old
church, which dates from the 15th century, and was
dedicated to St. Andrew. These ruins sod the grave-
yard surrounding were (yeses ego) much (requested
by visitor@ and by Portlanders generally, who evinced
a warm and praiseworthy interest in the spots, not
merely because of its picturesque surroundings, but
from the fact that It was God's Acre, where sleep the
remains of their forefathers. I have often in year.
gone by witnessed the great interest taken in till
plow ly the toWre sons of Portland in bringing
their wires end little ones here, and in trying
to &cipher the insoriptions on the tombstones,
and the probability Is that ninny smildnapirke
thoughts were born while bending over the whim of
their fathers. It seems • great pity that the plan
can be no longer visited as of yore. A little farther,
Mr. Editor, and I intend finkibleg my scrawl. I am
reminded hare of the days when I had • mania for
ferns, and the expeditions in quest of them come vividly
beak, so that for • time I seem to live over those
pleasant days elate. Well do I remember the joy
experienced when fire I alighted on a Maidenhair.
Ii was In the ravine between Sang-Tout and the
Other ferns I hare also gathered here, particularly
some fins eplenium marinum: while I ben found no
1... than sight or nine different kinds in or neer' the
ravine mentioned. But my reverie is soon brokeo,
and I must own to a pasing feeling of disgust on
diseovering that the beauties of the east weir and
cliff. are being encroach-d upon by the stone quarrim
of Mr. John Pearce. Still, it is a pleesure to learn
the some exceedingly fins block, of 'durable' stone
are being ginned here of very great length and
width. With the remark that stone from this side
of the eland was selected for the building of St.
Paul. Cathedral, and wishing samosa to the trade of
the (right-little, tight-little) Isle of Portland, an I to
lie favourite journal, via., the Portland end We/moue
Telegrass, with an apology to its readers, I am, sir
your. very respectfully,

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that the advice given me on admission into prisms, II the red bet Instrument to my back in • dozen or more
bold my tongue and eye no both answers, was very places. He would vary it by applying the graven
admitted me into me of the boepital where the the inevitable green ointment on, and only taken of
cgrdolya:jdOvicem.ucAbb.ou,l itoh.ll4eattimtehalt became
mme.dveioril r:ffiellacer. mbalylabrsolii, orßeratalerd Soto tailarrlyawthabuCityWlßOSiCh.brt-barYviO;
stirethweet.Wlllk4lleprt•—ttitmliow pitlapifarl over the the hospital cells, • warder who knew that anything
—oln.waehirchovl have for further torture. Oa • owt4o 000•400, when io
raving inmate. with strait-jackets on. I have he would do tool would give ptomain, to the doctor,
men two warders nat,h • man by the throat mot • prisoner into sny cell to ill-use me; be @truce
who had • strait-jacket on and nearly strong!. me and I threw something at him. Toe warder se I
him. bold him by the throat until his eyes I struck him. Of course the was a gated opportunity
t
were bursting out id their socket. and hi. faoe He come Into ray cell an wombed me. I wa. at ones
swollen and black. It makes me ;budder writing wont back to the punishment calla and the direct,
it. In the same corridor I have emu a warder some sent for. I was brought before him, assisted by tw
fourteen or fifteen moue weight knock (lowa • boy warders' I Wog too, weak sad feeble to wale
tome six or seven stone, kneed upon his Wiest wail alone. Next morning I was stripped to my eget
the blood came out of his nose, give • kick or two as in my cell by three or four war&rs, one of them
• parting gift, and then leave him. The same buy I holding the catoinine-toila in such a positi ,a that
saw about • year after at Woking prison, where he I must have • fall view of that mild animal.
dad spitting blood—bie mine wasi Welch —the result When they bai finished their operations, they
of the cruel treatment he rineival at Slilibmk. Om of them assisted me to the triangles. where they ti • I
poor fellow, • soldier, who was undergoing penal my bands and lest to them, after first telling me 1
servitude for life for some breach of military discipline, was sentenced to two dozen loam. (Thud) •' Oae ! '
in whose cell I was about this time placed five of us ehouted the sturdy yoke of the obis( warder, when •
together, used to he made a very football of on ' mosation came over me I cannot describe, • numb Sr
'almost every °octagon of his going down the corridor. of lights of different Isobars seemed to pass and repaw
He would ne unmercifully kicked and thumped. It before ins, and I thought • quantity of hot dust ha I
wee heart-rending to bear his pitiful crying, his been thrown over me. (Whack) Ten I" oriel Mr.
appeals for mercy would evoke something in the shape Chief. The lath was sharper and heavier then tb
of • dirty floor cloth, a earubbiag brush, or dinner , tint. I bit my lip until I about bit it thrown
• thrust on or into his mouth; on returning hews, (Bang) "Tares!" bawled the timekeeper, and at the
he would be literally pitched into the oell, where he tame time Wittig the executiouer to bit lower lows.
would remain moaning for hours, indeed until he had Seeing that I WY immoveable, and not makio
soother visit from the hind sealers. I was moved out . sound, was the meson why Mr. Sheathe kept eayin
of the nimble place I have endeavoured to describe, 'Lower down, more to the left," and so on, kaowin;
iinto the iohrmarl, when • couple of months Lauer I that the first few lashes are much more acute the .
was told by • worder, as I wee returning from the thaw which follow, for they know that those who ca
! kitchen with something, that the " dead 'on" I saw bear • doom without flinching mu hem the who.
who
o the st
bad oi:2 tghtitiof stabs was the uttering •so
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governor,
vtajor ina,;;
Idier
After having been admittei into the infirmary, the to bear me bellow. Whether from shame, if that•••
inhuman outrages such as I have been describing were potable, or feeling that it was 11•Iii•11 to administer
not of such frequent ocourrenon Yet even there I • the rebel* number, as I seemed determinist not t
have seen• dying convict struck in the facie by a shoot or wriggle about, they ordered me to be taket
sturdy warder, for disturbing him by asking him for ..iown from the trieogiee. The warders unloosed m
something when he was having • oloodestine read of hands, when I fell down, and was picked up by them
the paper. When I wee able to be removed, I waa sad carried book to the punishment ogle. 16.11 doe .
sent to Woking Priam. where Ima beginning Mien my beads were unbound, because it was WI ,
to grow moo ne that I would now be free from all ourds which bound my bandit which bold in. up, being
those cruel, horrible sights, of 1A001111%14 to be the in such a weak emaciated state that I o mid no
involuntary eye-without. But I Dever was so much stand without maistame, much less when under-
mistaken ; for I had not been there long when I hoard going torture. Immediately after ban carried t
the doctor say to • man who was dying from • large my cell, Dootog ridged me, and, Ida
running abscess on bit book, "What, ain't you dead man, ordered me a large glade of Moody.S.
yet lit is time you were; I think you get too many they left me lying on the floor, nu listarried only by
luxuries. I will put you on half diet." Poor fellow, • warder owning into my cell sight and day at
be died soon after. During my stay at Woking I was intervals of an hour or so. se the &maw thought it
In the opposite cell to • man who anyone was all over with me. You could &linos rem
could see we. dying I be had offended the through me at the time my body had not got •
doctor in some way, so be removed him particle of flesh on, my th:0•11 W••• through the skin,
from the infirmary Into • cold 041. Every time and ulcers on all my prominent joints, such as my
the doctor saw him he would abase tom, call him • hip., shoulder., and omen Before they [tugged inn
lazy fellow, and one de7 ordered tihn °et of bed and I woo compelled to sit or lay upon my baok in at ol
to go to fm;raise in the yard, and that if be did not he , the day and night because I now bad no choice to sit
would be dragged our. Poor guffaw, he got out of or lie on my lam because my back was almost sore
bed, and by holding to the wall as • child does wham and bleeding. The next kind attention I bad from
learning to walk, he emend to go along the passage them after undergoing the sighty•fonr days, "pen*
five or six Oman when MI staggered and was in the class" in the punishment cells was that they put
, act of falling, what one of the very few kini-hearted chains on me fur six months, to sleep with and wak,
warders In the convict establishment took °old of with.
him and said: "Go back, I will pat up with the Wogs% confined lathe pcioishotent °ell I haves..,
: consequences." Toe warder's mow wan tindery° 4. outrages committed, that would du the red Indium o
P oor trits.loamooa (that was the viotioa's name), when a century ago immense credit. I have Neu pm,
lin hie cell kept calling out, "Oh, he Is murdering raving lunatics—cruelly driven mad—on being takes
me I oh, have pity for me, don't forget I am a to the clerk cells from the ordinary punishment mils,
murdered man I" And •• kept moaning, praying for thrown dowu by • lot of turnkey., ant lite:all
pity, and cursing his murderer. In toe evening ch. thrashed as • number of permits would thrash
csor man sent for the what., who came promptly, wheat with Bade, because in their inamity they
At the saute time I Made application to me the would persist in singled or shouting. I have hear i
Kient also, He mine to my mil, when I related t , a poor ler. Soh singing all the time four Warders wet.
Min the barbarous, labUinha =lane/ in which Fitz- beating Iglu with their staves until they knocked him
Ammons had been treated, He then called the ingeasible, when they devoid him by the heels •100,
doctor's attention to the dying nag, who we the had to the dark cells aod flung him in. I wise is
insmedlatell removed to the infirmary, whom they the next mil to an old grey • haired man of the
tried to keep him alive • little longer by 1110i•••12104 pubs of Kelly, who was uodeinoing a ann..
64 lips with wine by means of • feather. Tb-y for life ; his hair was as whim as snow,
succeeded. He lived a few hours, but died within he appeared to be of weak intellect, whether
fort7aight hours from the scandalous "polo exurrisr" natural or acquired I know not. Poor old
episode. On hearing of his death I baked permiatioa , Kelly °Bea experienced • shaking. I have
to see the priest, and told him I wm ounvinoed th. heard them enter bis oellln the middle of the night,
man was murdered—that I War. Mogrone of giving and board the sound of the blows quite distinctly. I
evidence at the inquest; and also saw the deputy- have heard the Governor at the Mine time saying—
Governor and told him ; the result wee that I was "Give it to has—give it to him—off with him .• ' that
' allowed to give evidence at the inquest, with what meant the dark cell.. And what in all that for
result I know not, further than that my time hal Surely the punishment allowed by law is that lest for
come in for • full share of their ammities from the i every offence, and not for brutal warder., governors,
very day on which "Med to the jury Um above and doctors to wreak their vengeance un prisoners how
facts—facts they could not, neither did they dispute. : and when they choose. TO' offence that this poor
About Ulla time there was • Pieollee ag6loBl I grey-heeded lunatic committed was to tear his bedding
whom • turnkey had • greet disllke. Whil4 up and leave nothing to cover him. It was winter. He
at work one day, the turnkey jobbed the prisoner wee flogged soon alter and put in Maim, poor fellow.
in the ribe with his truncheon. Goaded t'r I Els soon after aimed to trouble them, lie tried to
desperation with the continual persecution, bang himself—be made two umooon,fut attempts
the convict struck the offender on the now jat last be was successful. Them was an inquest, of
with his fist. I was it the time in the course mid I suppose he was buried. I cannot say.
act of sitting down in my seat in the workroom when Well ilo I remember a convict of the name of Smith
the Whir took place. Think of my astonishment a —., imnnysinith , they ...id to call him—that meaa,
few moments alter, when three big turnkeys come o daft oor "soft kbpith, How they used to dello,
and dragged me to the yiunithineet wills, and there in persecuting him. The thumps, the bl.wi, that he
threw me on the floor and laid on me so lustily wi h ',oared, together with the amount of at arvation h..
than staves that I wan • 1•••• of bruises from heal t bad to uudergo, was indeiel enough Ti make the most
~s. I was afterwards brought before the r robust miod "barmy." Ye., no wonder he teled
end aintemed t.. twenty- debt days in the punishment bang himself. Hs woo not suocomful ; but atm,.
cells, and ths prisoner, who I knew t be goaded to came to his aid by permitting him to take that boar
deeperation, we, sentenced to be fi asged• lonnelierell sleep and so soothe from his torturers.
after I was removed to Dartan•or inv.lid prime a. • I could tell you that I have men m,6 and boys
malingerer—that is to say, the doctor who I charged driven mai, and then repeatedly flogged and Miguel
with the manslaughter or murder of FitZ4MO3OO., land for being 5... P.uough. I think I have c otreyed a
who before that °oilmen°, used to twist me as • min slight knowledge of my experaucs of convict life, an I
in delhige heal h, immediately afterwards *eat me it, from exaggeration, I have given a very mild
away, pronouncing me to be an impostor. account of it.
I have now left Woking. I have travelled all night. , H. ii•IWOUIT SOCWSoloarion )
j am introduced to a men who I learn is the doctor.
On arawering to my name my new acquaintance
himed in my ear, "You had better charge me with
murlering • man. I will murder you, you bun I)'
I was the next day put to work In the hardest
working gang in the prison, digging deep trenches
with piak and shovel. As was expected, I was
usable to do • third f the first tank set me to do. I
was marched back to prima, reported, and motenoed
to bread and water and no bed. At the ex; fr ation
my sentence I was woe hack t work 1,1 the same gang.
The officer's name was wdioer. He was supposed to
be the most hardhearted turnkey in the prison.
Neverthelew he gays me • much smaller tank than
. the others ; all to no purpose ; be could see the large
blisters on my hands, the blood oozing through my
hinter.; he could ore the perepination pour Alms ; he
could me me sick and vomiting, and he could see me
stagger and fall under the load of my miser's*. What
could be do then Send for • couple of civil guards
with gun and bayonet, and send me al; •ita to Vie
punishment cells. to be again pat on broad and water
and no bed. 8., it went on until the doctor. Iron
some cause cr other, admitted me into the infirmary,
not to strenthen me, or to do me any good, but simply
to torture me. Immediately on adinisalou to the
infirmary calls, • large blister was prodooed all over
my sheet and stomach by some liquid, and theta the
aide dragged MI, and to the raw quiv.-ring flash arm
applied green olotment mixed with cayenne pepper.
Oh. Gall how the thoughts of It wake my blood
curdle! I screamed, I groaned, I cried in my MrelaY.
"What have I done to dewy* this? tb, my GO I I
help me to bear it, and make my gaolers less Juba= .1
to me!' When my agony was untie:ugly great and I
shouted beam.* of it, one of the turnkeys would enter
my cell, catch me by the ems, and shake me by
them until they ached to such • degree that the pain
of them acted ma minter Irritant, and gave my obe.t
and stoma* momentary relief. For six or eight
week. I was kept thus, being allowed two table
spoonfuls of milk every two hours aa the whole of my
food. How the doctor used to delight in miring me
daily, "Is the front of you nice and oral ; we have
got the back to do yet, you know." Horror; Oh
heavens, how I shudder even now! What mum have
Imou my feelings then. Wm it any wonder that I
endeavoured to destroy myself? I did so by tearing a
strip off my bedclothes and hawing myself from the
window. I was discovered by the night turnkey awl
taken down and restored to COO•C100•041•14 What Will
they not do to me now, I thought. They will
torture me ten limbo more. Oh, bow fervently I
prayed for death! Yes, and inoomatent though it
may seem, I cursed in the same breath the 1•1111 who
CIA me down from the window. "So you were ahem.
ming led night 1" said my kind doctor, when became
in the morning. " I think," said he, turning round
to one of his puppets, that you bai better get his
beak does to-day, and see that you apply plenty of
nitrate "—(of something, but ( asoght the 6,0,1
nitrate, and will serer forget it.) Horror of horror* I
3ly chart and stomach • very bell of tartars, what
will it be when my back I, roasted as well) ,
mad, I thought I should, I coned the imwardly,
brutal devil in human shape, I told him that be won' t
be a convict like myself wen he to du to any parboil at
large the twentieth part of what he had Ins to toe.
I begged of him to kill me at once. How I can son
him now enjoying my dread, my agony—his lien ii.h
look and laugh. On leaving my cell be again repeated
to MO of the tosakeys., "Don't forget his beet; g
and do it at ones I" In about an hour the turnkey
mow, earl as usual sald, " I am imam to cool your
trait." Thank beaveti, he did cool it, for he put mins
powder over it and some lint, which gave me Instant
, relief.

POOLE.

Pottcs-000nv. Sion !sq.—Brims She Mayor (Sir.
W. wt.) tied Mr. Alderman Curls. a na•vy, natival
Jobs Smith, was charged with being drank and li..
orderly in the Mali-street on the prikanis evenin,
Prisoner said, of courts., he waa guilty. -P.O. Ballet
proved the case, and that the prisoner was so •ionnit
that he had to he taken to the station on a stratober,
—Fined 7,., including aorta, or mien days.

Afar leaving the hospital cells I was placed in thy
=lt Orsartinlseirle mandbfir rind.w&,:irti..", was
the
on Dartmoor hills. Whilst there I was horrified at
melee a prisoner being driven elongate •orridor
astateolouditybeythrzes. t. throwing pat
araikeyrs.whowere
thrashing him wiultair s all
and *llan of ice water over him, for it wee mid.
winter.
I was emit to Portland, where, to my horror, I
found my bitter enemy, Doctor I was still
unable to perform the le:porton, work that I was set
to do the oonsequemos being that I was almost the
1 whole of my time under punishment ; that le, I wits
t kept on half • p mud of bread for my breakfast with
water, water f T my dinner, and half a pound of bread
far my supper with water, and no bad to lie upon,
I was for over three bunired days kept nodes Boob
barbarous treatment. I wale placed under • kind
warder ; he saw my feeble state, and he was kind
to me by putting me to may jobs; besides,
I happened to get Into the party in which were •
l ample of men to whim I gave some of my food at
Dartmoor, whoa I was too ill even to eat that
, milegrable pitasocc. I might bars eecoped a great
deal of the torture I sedated, were it not for an
unfortuaate accident. I was pot to some light work
under Of rather la the bottom of the quarry, when •
atone fell upon my loins and so affected me that I
bare kit it ever glom. I beams inernsible for a
time; when I recovered I was taken to the hospital.
where Doctor —• sew me, pat me into • coll, and
ordered two turnkeys to pat the salver& battery on
me. They kept it on me until I became ineeasible.
and so they would repeat the torture from tints to
time, I know not for bow long. They thee asei.t. I
me over to the punishment cella, where I had to
undergo the most cruel torture. I used to be kept
the re on punishment diet, winter and summer, without
I a bed, unless they call the planks by that earn*, until
the doctor thought I was dying, when I would be
carried to • chair by two convicts to the Ituepital,
where just sufficient food would be given me to bring
back life. Then my amiable doctor would get •
•virit lamp, Place It on tits table alongside my be),
heat an Instrument to a red beat, and then ask me If
I would like that applied to my bask. Horror I his
Dartmoor atrocitiesla bloom am oroml a mans,
"Tata ant." ks would tan aad Shea ha mead apply