The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-02

fifteen years. During my stay in the
cell l was given a clean dress every
nine months. | put my underciothing
outside the door every night and found
clean clothing every morning, but
knew not who had worn it before me.
Had Strange DeIusions.
I'm my trip through the prisons of
this country / have been pleased hun
dreds of times with the comforts the
prisoners enjoy. We were never al
lowed a looking glass in England be-
cause it was feared we would commit
suicide. Decisions of every character
enter the head of a woman who has
no looking glass for fifteen years. She
imagines her nose is falling off and
that her face has become contorted.
1t is one of the worst punishments of
the English prisons. | have been
afraid to leave my bed at nights on
account of these decisions and even
now | sometimes wake up, sit up and
again lie down in terror, forgetting
that l am not in an English prison.
l never ate off a table during my inn
prisonment, never saw knife or fork,
or plate or glass.
1.-The women in the English prisons
are given three different grades of
work to do. The first grade is SHOW
cling coal, stripped; the second grade
is digging soil and wheeling it, mixing
mortar and doing other iaborous work.
In the last grade twelve shirts must
be hemmed in seven days or thirteen
pairs of socks knitted in that time"
Result of Prison Life.
She said that judge in New York
said to her that he wished our courts
were more like English courts. the
business is done so fast there. Il dare
say it would appeal to a judge as
matter of business, but they forget
that when man or woman is rail-
roaded to prison it is not merely an
injury to that person, it passes on to
the family, that stigma to have once
been in prison, your name is gone,
you lose your friends, home and bust
ness. We are on the right track be-
cause we consider that life and liber-
ty are not to be subservient to a
mere monetary consideration She
told of thousands of petitions that
were signed in this country, Germany
and France, protesting against so I'M
fair trial Within three weeks TO-
600 petitions in America had been
signed by two million people.
When the day came for the guard
to tell her what her fate should be
and she expected her sentence to be
executed she said to him. DO not tie
my hands, for I am free born Ameri-
innocent" "My child, it is not death,
but life. I have a commutatiop to
the convict prison. She described in
detail her life in the convict's cell.
For fifteen years I never touched the
hand of a human being. not even that
of my own mother. Only was / al
lowed to speak through iron bars to
her with a guard between us. For
fifteen years every two months my
mother visited for hale an hour each
time, coming from 500 to 5000 miles
to see me- / could not have endured
it were it not for that divine mother
love"
July % was the third anniversary
of the release of Mrs. Maybrick. The
speaker told of her release and of her
greeting in New YORK Hundreds of
inventions had taken place during her
fifteen years confinement in prison
and her description of her introduc
ton to the new wrinkles in a Fifth
avenue hotel were very amusing.
Conclusion of Program.
Two sermons by Miss Elizabeth W.
Greenwood. readings by Miss O'Brien,
concerts by the Musicians Union
band and good programs b. the Mod |
jeska quartet completed the days en-
Especially good have
been the concerts by the Modjeska
quartet. The organization, which is
from Springfield. o.. has not been on
the professional stage very long but
this, the members /
sing well together and each has a well !
toned voice.