River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-06-13
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How am xsn giisE CrtminaI Fiegned Par
alyssSs 10 Escape Puntshment.
rom the ls..naon Tslarrsph.

How am ssn giisEs CrtminaI Fiegned Par
abyss 10 Escape Punsshment.
From the l. .ndon Telegraph.
at is s dreadful ring to pass sentence
upon a risn in such state 7 salo * Judge
at the Wiltshire assizes ON Friday last.
His lordship seemed moved to distress at
the pitiS9le object, who, with an injured
spine, wa, brought into court lying help
lessly onza stretcher, and who could only
feeblv pE ad guilty to the charge all
!eged against him. "The infiction you,
are sufSring uuder," said the Judge
surpasset any punishment / can give
youl" laad Neale been in good ordin-
ary healsn he would undoubtedly have
had pentl scrvitude, for it was not his
first act ST felony, but who could find
the hear to carry out the extreme rigor
OK law isE the case OF a poor soul who
would, t,f all appearance, never again be
able to ,,;.e from he pallet on which he
lay. wrikeing in all the agony of an iniur-
ed spine, So much dld his lordship feel
this, thsY5 having first sentenced him to
eighteen. months, conscience seemed to
smitten sam. and he reduced it 10 have
twelve. !
1t APPEARS that in October last Neale
was app@ shended for stealing I. mare, the
property. Of Dir. John Smith, of Lucking-
tan, ands@as lodged in Malmsbury LOCK-
up, previous to his transmission to Dew
yes. OrEahe following morning, when
the poli;j3 visited his cell, they found
him lying on the floor unable to move.
His statement that he had gone up TO
look ous%fhe window, when he feel back
ward ac99ss the corner of the beadstead
and infused his spine. Medical advice
was obtsfned, and his sad condition at
once appreciated. In fact he
appeared to be almost irretrivably
injured, Ssno TO be suffering the greatest
agonv-snd to remove man distance
of twentv miles Under such circumstances
would h I'VE been the height of cruelty.
He accordingly remaided at Malmes-
bury foh nine weeks, during which time
everythiny which humanity could sug-
gest to rattigate his sufferings was resort
| ed to. 4 person was kept in constant
ATTENDANCE upon him; all kinds OF nutn-
tious thiggs were ordered for him, such
as roast I1wl grog, sc, and his comfort
was stuGsed with the utmost solicitude.
At the elsa of nine weeks it was thought
that he Right bear the journey to Deviz-
es, and in January last conveyance
was obta:hed belonging to Mr.. Walter
I Powell, II. P.) loug enough to hold
| bed, anG, with great care and no little
anxiety, lie was brought to the county
| Jail, ana; was at once carried 10 the IN
| Urinary. Two men were specially de-
tailed to nis necessities and minister to
his comts,rt; for the medical officer and
another tfoctor he brought with him to
see "the. case" were like the medical
gentlem&n at Malmesbury) both of the
opinion iaiat the poor fellows spine was
seriouslyS if not permanently injured.
In this melancholy state lie was brought
before tbs, Judge on Friday last, and
general gsurindr Of pity, amounting al
most to.a shudder, ran through the
court as hose present beheld the pallet
with the Injured man lying helpless upon
it. A bEsatnless silence prevailed as the
poor felow was sentenced to twelve
months Imprisonment, and the pallet,
with its occupant, was carried back TO
the prisos-
To pagve former conviction the
deputy sstvernor of Gloucester jail had
| been surHmoned to Devices, and, on gong
over the s4&il, a close inspection enabled
him to Recognize in Neale an old "inva-
lid" witlE Whom he formerly had to deal.
"Holloa, said the deputy governor, as he
scanned he countenance e the cripple.
"Holloa Sswhat, at your old game2" "That
| fellow" = lid he sis an imposter. There
is no mofe the matter with his spine than
there is Nsth mine Impossible, it was
thought. The duputy governor must be
! deceived However, DIR. Chapman, the
medical aSfcer, thought il worth while to
COMMUNICATE with the surgeon OF
Gloucester Jail, and the reply he received
so entire n confirmed the duputy gov
errors settlement chat he determined to
test the ra,3int in such way as should put
! it beyoncdoubt that Neale was really the
great sufis4er he appeared to be or an
arrant ksave. Taking with him DIR.
Carless I'd Mr.. Wav|en, he went to the
prison or. :sunday last, and, having pat
the man through severe examination,
the previously formed opinion of the doc
| tors begtsi to waver Still the man pro.
tested thS4 his sufierihgs and his injuries
were real and be seemed totally unable
move.
To puts;he matter to a further test a
galvanic ;SlAttery was introduced, and the
shocks Syere turned ON pretty strong.
| AN, 0OWtT5F, 1dllcp ~ NIoutlCc hHc w
pected result. The man was no more
able to ssove during and after the
''shocks" iassaen he was before. So the
doctors leg. The morrow came, and as
it came, Fasit fouud Neale lying in the
same POISSON as he had lain for six
previous hsonths If possible in greater
pain than syer Regardless, however, of
all demonstrations of suffering. The
| electric nlE,hine WIS again set to work,
so sharp Neas the effect that the leg
which ar5SSsred most effected by the
| spinal injsfy began TO move, until at last,
unable 'Glsand the 6hocks any longer,
the feIlov 3umped out of bed, and in a
| few minu&ss afterward walked across the
court. yatt;; 10 obtain his prison clothes,
as 1.-THE ana agile on his pins as any man
in the prisSa walls. A clever scroundrell
Electrfcity.has produced many wonder
full results;>but none more wonderful than
its effect son Charles Neale. il is too
late to giv9 him the desert (of penal ser
vitude) wsich would inevitably have
awaited h5e4 but for his ''pltable condit-
ion.'' Z: