The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-05-09

+, the selling, but the; dropping them in tn
n streets as if by accident I've done III
5 sh,rering dodge too-lrgone out in the COLI
f weather, half naked One man ha,
> practised it so much that he can't get of
shivering now. Shaking Jenny con.
, tinued his shivering SO long that he
couldn't help it at last. He shiverec
like jelly-like a calf's foot with the
, ague--on the hottest day in summer. It's
good dodge in tidy inclement seasons.
It's not sogocd LUX, by two bob a-day,
as it once was. This is single-handed
) job; forif one man shiver less than anoth-
er, he shows that il isn't so cold as the
} good shivcrer makes it out-then it's no
60" ..5
A cosvItr's TALE.
| shall now give the statement Of a
man selected at random from amongst a
number, such as himself, congregated
in one of the most respectable lodging
houses. He proved on examination, to
be returned convict, and one who had
gone through the severest bodily and
mental agony. He said-stI was two
years and half at picking pockets; one
week was very like another; success and
escapes, and free and easies, and games
of all sorts, made up the life. AT the
end of two years and half got into
the way of forging Bank of England
notes. A man l knew in the course of
business, said i would cut that game of
snotter-hauling, Stealing handkerchiefs)
and do little of the soft, (pass bad
notes.)' So l did, and was very sue
cessful at first. They hung them for it
in them days, but that never daunted me
the least in my life. l saw Cushman
hung for that gunsmith's shop on Snow
Hill. and | saw Fauntleroy hung, and
good many others, but it gave no unea-
siness and no fear. The gaIlows hadno
terrors for people in :my mode of life. A
man that | bought a, ,horse, &C., of, had
been nailed passing > bad note, and he
stated who he got it from, and was traced.
was tried at the Start, (Old Bailey,
and pleaded guilty to the minor offence,
(that of utterance, nc ct knowing the note
to be forged or l should have been
hanged for it then. 1t was a favorable
session, when l was tried Thilty-six
were cast for death. and only one was
topped, (hanged,) the very one that ex-
pected to be turned up, acquitted, for
highway robbery. They sentenced me
to IA years transportation; was 10
weeks in the Bellerophon hulk at Sheer
nese, and then taken to Hobarttown,
Van Diemen's land. in the Sir Godfrey
Webster. At Hobarttown 60 of US were
picked out 10 60 to Launceston. / once
had so lashes and soldier 800 the same
morning. l was fogged as convict,
and he as soldier, and when we were
both at the same hospital after the fog
ging, and saw each others backs, the
other convicts said to me-'d-n it, you
have got it this time, and the soldier
said, when he saw my back, ''you have
got it twice as bad as | have NO,
said the doctor, 'ten times as bad; he's
been floggcd, but you, i'll comparison,
have only had child's whipping The
cats the convicts were then fiogged with
were each six feet long, made out of the
long line of ship of 500 tons burthcn
nine overend knots in each tail, and nine
tails, whipped at each end with wax-end
With this, we had half minute lashes; a
quick lashing would have been certain
death. One convict who had Is lashes,
was taken from the triangle to the W atch-
house in Launceston, and was asked if he
would have some tea-he was found to
be dead. The military surgeon kept
saying in this case, go on; do your
duty was mustered there as was
every hand belonging to the government,
and saw it, and heard the doctor"
1t ought also to :be added, that this
man stated that the severity of govern
ment in this penal colony was so ex-
treme, that men thoIght little Of giving
others knock on tie head on purpose
to get hanged out Of the way. Under
the discipline of Captain Maconochie,
however. who introduced better order
with kindIier system, there wasn't a
man but would have laid down his life
for him.