Arizona republican., 1896-08-20
ARE MAD IN THEIR CELI[,y|
Liberty for Irish Political
 Leaders.
Two Have Become Mad, All
 Are Physical Wrecks.
Daly, Gallagher, Whitehead and De- Vany Will be Released After
 Years of Suffering.

Boston Post: The political prison CTS whom the British government now proposes to release have served about thirteen years each of life sentences given for alleged treason felony. Each went into prison vigorous and healthy. Two, Drs. Gallagher and iWhitehead will leave broken in body and hope less mental wrecks; the third, John Daly, will return to the world with ruined constitution and once bright mind dimmed by the cruel and inhu-- ! man treatment to which he has been subjected.
 | There is a big letter M over the l cell door of Dr. Thomas Gallagher" says Mir. Eagan. 'fDr. Gallagher was citizen of Greenpoint, L. I. He was as fine specimen of manly development as ever saw when I met him in 1884. He was a mental and physical wreck when I left Portland prison. He had been hopeless lunatic since 1887. The letter M over his cell door tells the visitor that the inmate is mad. The poor doctor sits in his cell all day long, gibbering and laughing the terri ble laugh of the maniac. Most of the time he is in a straight jacket, though he is never violent.
 There is another M over the cell door of Dr. Albert George Whitehead,
 another American citizen, who has been insane for years. His insanity is of 8 violent form, and the most out
 rageous courses are adopted by the warders to keep him in restraint
 '"The case of Henry Hammond Will son of New Haven, Conn, is the most
 sorrowful of all Poor Wilson was
 just entering the year of manhood
 when he was convicted in London in 1883 and was sentenced to imprison-
 ment for life on the charge of treason
 felony. The dreaded M is over his
 cell door, too. But, worse of all, the
 warders and governor of the prison
 refuse to believe that he is insane,
 though the prison doctor has pro nounced him beyond the pale of req
 son. The result is that the unfortu-
 nate man is continually under punish
 ment. The officials, order him chas- tised for the slightest infraction of
 the rules of the prison. He is not in
 a condition to knew anything about
 rules, or even to know his most init
 mate friends.
 '"The case of John Da]y affords an
 instance of the murderous methods
 pursued by the custodians of the lives of these luckless men. Daiy com plained of being sick and instead of be- ing taken to the infirmary. as is cus- :, tomary with ordinary convicts, he was treated in his cell The medicine fur nished by the compounder, as the convict assistant to the prison apoth- ecary is called, made Daly sick at the l stomach. He told the doctor next day. l The doctor said nothing. Similar l medicine was sent to Daly's cell. He e drank it and again became sick at the r stomach Then the officials became
 scared. They hurriedly summoned e the doctor. He decided to use the r stomach pump. The contents were
 analysed and it was found that tinct-
 ure of belladonna had been introduced
 into the medicine furnished to Daly.
 '8The brutality practiced in the case k of Peter Callaghan, who is confined in
 Chatham convict prison, is beyond
 precedent even Tn Siberia While bhis e unfortunate man was suffering from l, acute ophthalmia he was obliged to a work in the onen air as if there was d nothing the matter with him. The t pain in his eyes was so intense al e times that he would tarow aside his t pick or shovel and lay upon the ground - writhdng in agony, but with brutal j. oaths his guards would kick him on S the head or body until he grasped his if implement and went to work again l, with the gang The result was the
 loss of the sight of one of the prison.
 CTS eyes and the impairment of the
 sight of the other.
 "The trouble with the Irish prison. 5. CTS in English dungeons is that they j. are placed there especially with a view r. to punishment, and not with desirt It for correction, which should be the d underlying principle of all penal in. d stitutions. Tine warders and official. d in all these prisons are former arm, le and navy men. They are intensel, r. anti-Irish in sentiment and of cours, l. it naturally follows that nothing ii 7- left undone by them to wreak ven n geance on the luckless Irishmen O.
 Americans placed in their charge