The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-25
TREATMENT OF IRiSHPOLlTICAL
PRISONERS.

Our Ennis correspondent writes:-
/ HAY lust had an interview with Mrs.
Guilt In mot Cullen), who has return
ed from visiting her brother, Edward
O'Connor, in Spike Island Convict
Prison. Owing to the excitement and
prostration caused by the CHASTITY APP
pearance of her brother, she says that
she had not sufficient strength of
mind or body to answer any questions
that were put to her in Cork. In adj
dition to what has already been re-
ported in your columns, cleaned the
following from her heightened state
ment to me. When the warder or
dered her brother not to speak of the
political prisoners O'Kelly and Dillon,
he replied that he would speak the
truth of them, and added that O'Kelly
was now treated worse than ever;
whereupon the guard laid his hands
upon Mrs. Cullinan and pushed her
out. She then demonstrated and eX-
claimed. ''tlke your, hands off me; it is
enough for you to have the life of one
of lis gone, and not to have mine also,
and leave my poor family mother
less" Her brother hearing these
words, told her to report it when she
got out. Upon hearing this injunc-
ton, the guard re-admitted hertz her
brothers presence. He then told her
that on his first entry into Spike, the
Governor. Mr.. Hay. told him that he
would let him know what it was to
suffer in the chains and bondage of a
prison; and ''this threat" added Ed
ward O'Connor, she has faithfully
and vigorously carried out" He
states that he was for years confined
in the worst cell, where there was
neither room nor ventilation, in conse-
quence of which his blood hardly cir
culated in his veins. When on his at
er punishment, he received forty lash
es, he had the modification, in his
own words, $50 see the blood run
down his body and the flesh fly from
his bones When in the extremity
of suffering from an abscess and spine
disease he was not allowed one hours
cessation from his hard labor. nor per-
mitted to the hospital for Il single day.
He was denied clean water to wash
his wounds, and received such as was
already dirtied by the ablution of 9TH
CT prisoners sores. One thing in par
ticular that he implored his sister not
to forget bringing under the notice of
Of Mr.. 'COnnor Power. NJ. p. Lord
Francis Conyngham. Nj. p, and Cap
tain Stackpoole. NJ. p, was the fact
that DR.. @ Keefe persisted in refusing
him hospital treatment even when de-
clared unfit for work and in very
sickly condition by DR.. O'Connell.
His sister then told him that his state
ment about receiving p days bread
and water while suffering from hip
disease was brought under the notice
of Parliament by Mr.. O'Connor Pow
er, NJ. p. and that it was there denied
emphatically by the Chief Secretary
for Ireland. In reply to this Edward
O'Connor said. There is the warder;
let him contradict me if he can, am
speaking the candid TRUTH
He relates that he had to work I'M
der torrents of rain, from which he
was soaked through and through and
for persisting to ask a change of
clothes he was sentenced to three days
on bread and water and one month s
solitary confinement, in addition to
having the wet clothes dry on his
back, which greatly intensified his
former wounds. When about to
leave, Mrs. Cullinan requested per-
mission to embrace her brother, which
being refused, he, with his indomit-
able emery burst open the door and
embraced me, and kissed me with his
icy lips. Thereupon the warder
rushed between them. and threatened
to have him severely punished. The
last words uttered to his sister were
Give my love to Glare. and tell
it's people that am still an Irish
man. Mrs. Cullinan wishes to
thank the committee and gentlemen
of Cork and Queenstown for their ex-
IRENE kindness towards 1.-The sister of
one of Ireland's suffering patriots"