The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-04
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and ing nay Icng experience IN prison
have never known II bod beng forced
through tos s<in b. the pressure i short
tine ago q party II visitors were shown
through here. Onsog them uas a man about
= year, II age. He had IN idea that men
were hung up By the wrists for hours al
tins, When I tod him that the punishment
never lasted nCa* than 2 few seconds he vas
not inclined n ssieve it. ] sent for q pair
u hsH1cuffs, and he consented " 1T me
hans, him mp gor q few seconds. Just q soon
- the strain began hs cried out, and his toes
had scsrsly left the ground before he was
i.rploT5ng me n let him down. There was a
faint ROD line around his wrists, and that vas
all"
As terrible 81 This punishment Is IL is moth
ing compared 20 the agonies suffered By the
prisoner who Is locked up in dark cell A
young fellow mas taken to Sing Sing about
year ago IN serve n five years. sentence. He
began his term of imprisonment by disobev-
ing e7ery order given nm by the keepers.
He was reasoned with. and efforts we're made
10 show him that he was hurting nobody as
Tnuch - he Vas hurting himself But he was
both lazy and vicious, and he was strung NJ
by the wrists. The punisbnent kept him
straight for fen days, but it was soon found
necessary " string him up again The second
punishment seerned To have no effect, and
then he vas placed in dark cell. At the ex-
piratiOu Of q few hours the door was opened.
and the young man rushed out with a face as
pale as death, and shaking in every limb. He
behaved himself for a week, and then fell
into his old ways again.
Il think / shall have 10 put you in the dark
cell again" said Mr.. Connaugbton To him
"Oh, don't do that he pleaded. "fIease
string me up; that isn't half 30 frightful"
Thereafter the mere mention Of the dark
cell was 50 fraught with terrors that it was
enough 10 bring him To terms and make him
industrious and obedient.
THREE HOURS or TORTURE.
Il was punished once by being placed in
dark cell for several hours" said an ex-
convict. ''The moment the wooden door
was closed the darkness seemed to jump
right at me. 1t was not the darkness
OF night, but a heavy, thick blackness
that you could almost feel and that seemed
70 settle upon you and crush you down
Slowly 1t became suTocating, and little
sharp rays Of light began TO dance be-
fore my eyes; horrible forms, conjured up by
the imagination, began growing out of the
blackness. and / fancied I could hear de
laughter. I threw myself down on
the floor and tried to sleep. l lost conscious
ness for a time and thought had been there
all day, and that it was then night The
blackness assumed different shape and
seemed to form itself into waves, like the
bosom Of troubled ocean. The pillows !
rolled all about me, and occasionally seemed
TO envelop me. / struggled out of them
wildly, but again they came tumbling toward
me and again covered mo up, and then felt
as though l was being slowly sufrocated. |
Little sparks and flashes of light sprang out |
Of the blackness and shot toward me, but all |
seemed to fall short.
"Then l thought saw demons away Off in
The shadows, who were hurting the flashes at
me intent upon murder. l danced around in |
"A wild effort TO escape them, and then, utterly |
exhausted, threw myself again on the floor
and again lost consciousness for a time |
When awoke another day seemed to have |
passed. and imagined was horrible hungry |