Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-06-13

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| field,
| And a new one under the hill,
And pallid. fearless woman
BY the cold hearth sits alone;
And the old clock in the corner
Ticks on with steady drone.
PARALYZED SCOLNDKELISA.
How an EDGlish Cr5mlasl 11egneA Par
atysls to Escape Rsnlshnent.
From the London Telegraph.
1T is dreadful hing to pass sentence
upon man in such state ~ salo w.. Judge
at tile Wiltshire assizes on Friday last.
His lordship seemed moved to distress at
the pitiable object who, with an injured
spine, was brought into court lying help
lessly on stretcher, and who could only
feebly plead guilty. to the charge al
legged against him. "The infection you,
are suffering UNDER" said the Judge
surpasses any punishment I can give
you" Had Neale been in good ordin-
ary health he would undoubtedly have
had penal scrvitude, for it was not his
first act of felony, but who could find
the heart to carry out the extreme rigor
of law in the case OF poor soul who
would, to all appearance, never again be
able to rise from the pallet on which he
lay, writhing in all the agony of an injur-
ed spine. So much did bis lordship feel
this, that, having first sentenced him to
eighteen moRths, conscience seemed to
smitten him, and he reduced it to have
twelve.
1t appears that in October last Neale
was apprehended for stealing a mare, the
property of Mr.. John Smith, of Lucking-
tan, and was lodged in Malmsbury lock-
up, previous to his transmission to Devi-
zes. On the following morning, when
the police visited his cell, they found
him lying on the floor unable to move.
His statement that he had gone up to
look out the window, when he feel back
ward across the corner ef the beadstead
and injured his spine. Medical advice
was obtained, and his sad condition at
once appreciated. In fact he
appeared to be almost irretrivably
injured, ana to be suffering the greatest
agonv-and to remove man a distance
Of twenty miles under such circumstances
would have been the height of cruelty.
BE accordingly remaided at Malmes-
bury for nine weeks, during which time
everything which humanity could sug-
gest to mitigate his suffering was resort
ed to. A person was kept in constant
attendance upon him; all kinds of nutri-
tious things were ordered for him, such
as roast fowl, grog, &c, and his comfort
was studied with the utmost solicitude.
At the end of nine weeks it was thought
that he might bear the journey to Deviz-
es, and in January last conveyance
was obtained belonging to Mr.. Walter
Powell, NJ. P) long enough to hold
bed, and, with great care and no little
anxiety, he was brought to the county
Jail, and was at once carried to the in
frmary. Two men were specially de-
tailed to his necessities and minister to
his comfort; for the medical officer and
another doctor ne brought with him to
see the case," were dixie the medical
gentlemen at Malmesbury) both Of the
opinion that the poor fellows spine was
seriously if not permanently injured.
In this melancholy state he was brought
before the judge on Friday last and q
general murmdr of pity, amounting al
most to shudder, ran through the
court as those present beheld the pallet
with the injured man lying helpless upon
it. A breathless silence prevailed as the
poor fellow was sentenced to twelve
months imprisonment, and the pallet,
with its occupant, was carried back to
the prison.
To prove a former conviction the
deputy governor of Gloucester Jail had
been summoned to Devices, and, on gong
over the Jail, close inspection enabled
him to recognize in Neale an old s.inva-
lid" with whom he formerly had to deal.
"Holloa," said the deputy governor, as he
scanned the countenance Of the cripple.
''Holloa! what, at your old game2"' "That
fellow" said he "is an imposter. There
is no more the matter with his spine than
there is with mine." Impossible, it was
thought. The duputy governor must be
deceived However, DIR. Clapham, the
medical officer, thought it worth while to
communicate with the surgeon of
Gloucester jail, and the reply he received
so entirely confirmed the duputy gov
ernor's statement that he determined to
test the point in such a way as should put
it beyond doubt that Neale was really the
great sufferer he appeared to be or an
arrant knave. Taking with him DR..
Carless and Mr.. Waylen, he went to the
prison on Sunday last. and, having put
the man through q severe examination,
tue previously formed opinion of the doc.
tors began to waver. Still the man pro-
tested that his suferings and his injuries
were real, and he seemed totally unable
0 move.
To put the matter to q further test q
''shocks" were turned on pretty strong.
All, however, failed to produce the ex-
pected result. The man was no more
able to move during and after the
''shocks" then he was before. So the
doctorsleft. The morrow came, and as
it came, 80 it found Neale lying in the
same position as he had lain for six
previous months If possible in greater
pain than ever. Regardless, however, Of
all demonstrations of suffering. The
electric machine was again set to work,
so sharp was the effect that the leg
which appeared most effected by the
spinal injury began to move, until at last,
unable 10 stand the shocks any longer,
the fellow jumped out Of bed, and in a
few minutes afterward walked across the
court yard to obtain his prison clothes,
as 1.-THE and agile on his pins as any man
in the prison walls. A clever scroundrel!
Electricity has produced; many wonder
| full results, but none more wonderful than
its effect upon Charles Neale.E 1t is too
late to give him the desert (of penal SER
vitude) which would inevitably have
awaited him but for bis ''pltable condit-
ion" -. - 60. 9&
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