The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-02-18 00:00:00

DR HEIM4L AND THE COHAN MMUMT

MURDER.

The following imnortant letter bits been addressed to
the Veils Telegrapk by Maori Albert Grant, hesdof the
evil-known Bankieg Firm of Lombard Street, late M. F.
for Kidderminster, ebiob cannot fail to have the
hearty support of ail right-minded persons :

TO TIM ionroa OP " TEM DAILY TELEGRAPH."

Sri—lt Ii Impassible to read the aooouat of the treat-
mrts and sufferings of Dr. Ilivel, aa related in your
journal, cod your able remarks thereon, without every
one feellug the nemmerity to remove so foul a blot on
Our judieal system as is revealed iu the present mode
of treatice prissonere under remand, and who mu; be,
and are d•ily proved. Innooeut of the (Moms with
which seoident or misfortune may otos, them to be
accused.

'To minnow that D. Hemel, or any one innocent a
crime, can ever, while life lasts, entirely forget the
motel torture to which they have Leen subjected by the
indignities det•iled In your report, is not to know •
properly constituted mind.
To many persons, I do no heiit.ts to tan • settled
melancholy would cling, whloh would prernstarely bring
Shout to their graves ;and the balm-ono bodily treatment
priioners under remand, even belore committal for ttial,
are sntj at to, is well designed to Icy the sceds of
.li.ea..td
.• yor, anent character. .

I do not dwell on the mental agony of rotative.' of any
reepaotable person whom =Latakia indontlty may, we is
V= clam of Ur. Hemel, plaos in a similar position : they
am realisable by every fieltng heat.
What phould be done al matters now itand in
respect of tkis orying toil? Stalely, am every practical
Eagliehman will sty at onoe, Idea steps to have the law
altered.

How to do this is t)e question. As we all know—
ando seat in the [rouse of Commoos for some years
has eiscOrmed hie In this—Government worse slowly,
end oontinaed pressure is required bobtail' even what
for a length of time may be proved to be absolutely
necomary. Leadivg artisles, &We as they may be, will
net oboe do.

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I propose. therefore, that • body of gentlemen should
form themselves into • enmity, having for its object
the amendment of the rxistiog law as WI persons
under remand, with • view to Um oarrylog out in
practice that doctrine so moth, and justly so, vaunted
in theory that • men "should be ooneklee•d innocent
until found guilty."
What the law should require is that the sootteed
person should be reminded to a house of detention—
literally, that he shout be "detained," and nothing
more, sod not that his punishment, mental and bodily.
should begin in all its eingrity at • time when the spirit
and, I hope ere long, the letter of the law, will outsider
him still Innocent of offense.
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The society will oleo, in it. mono, bo bound to eve to
obtaining no melioration of the state of the horrid
009 i called poliou oclls, where, even more frequently
than to prison*, respeetable persona—from sudden
Vines' in the streets and other ceases, often mistaken
for intoacation—are taken, and the soevunts given
from time to our,, of thews blank bola cell aloud (Cr
amendment.

haying obtained the proposed tatters-
tfoos would have fulfilled its mission ; but to do this it
should be in a position, if Government dam not take
the matter up, to do so by private legirlation, for whish
purpose it must be eble to coommand a fund enabliog it
to employ the first legal talent.
Towards this asso..iation lam willing to contribute
£lOO, and I shall be happy to coo-operate with and
receive eommunioations from all persons wishing to join
this movement, with a view of forming a committee to
carry out the proposed objects.
I am, Ste. Yours faithfully,