The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17

ill-treated with impunity; and / had q
very rough and tumble time, indeed
while being carried to one Of the goals
With the minor police and goal Off
Gals in Russian Poland the ill-tTeat-
ment Of prisoners is a carefully studied
art and they amused themselves con-
genially with me. Twenty times on thg.
short journey I had to put the greatest
restraint on myself to resist the tempta-
ton to do what they strove to goad me
/ TO do-tO commit some act of violence
which would have given them the ex-
cuse they sought to half batter me tc
death.
As it was I was hustled, struck and
/ kicked; my clothes were nearly torn off
my back, and every foul epithet which
Russian and Polish male could think of
was spat at me with official brutality
and contemptuousness
l kept my head, however. I was
tough enough to bear a good deal of i'll
treatment; 1 had often taken mu-n
worse punishment in the boxing ring.
and I had played football in America
so l held my temper back for the man
who was the real cause of it all.
They flung me at length into a cell
and locked the door upon me with a last
gibe that the English were dirty COW
ards, and l the meanest skunk of them
all.
I understood that day how men are
made murdeTeTs. I brOOded over my
wrongs and nursed my rage against the
bully who was responsible for this
treatment, until. if we had stood face
to face, 1 know I should have found de-
light in dragging him down and chok-
ing the life out of him. A fierce desire
to fight him and punish him took pos
session of me; and for an hour or two
hunger, thirst injustice, everything was
forgotten in that all but insane craving
for revenge.
But rage cannot last forever. and
when some rough prison food-grueI.
black bread, and a pannikin of water
was thrust into my cell an hour or two
later the sight of it reroused my hun
ger and blanketed my passion. So fam
ished was ! by that time that l had TO
clamp down the desperate impulse TO
cram it into my mouth with the I'M
bridled voracity of a starving beast
1t was excellent self-discipIine to eat
it slowly. But 1 succeeded 1 took It.
just a mOuthful at a time, with long in
tervals between, thus spreading out
the meal over perhaps two hours or
more. And at the end of the time I was
myself once more, had regained my self
restraint and was able to think
What they meant to do with me I
could not see; but what I would DO was
clear enough. l would conform to every
rule of the prison life and wait for the
chance of communicating with my
friend or with the British consul Let
that bully break down my resolve. l
would not, If | had to stay in the
prison till / was gray. And when my
time came, / would have q reckoning
with him, even if the immediate result
was only to bring me back to the prison
with a real crime for the reason.
On entering the goal I had been
searched. and my watch and money.
everything, indeed. taken from me- 7
could not therefore. try the bribery
trick again, even if the chance had Of
fered. So I made the best of a very bad
job, arranged my torn clothes in such
fashion as I could. rubbed the bruises
where the bTUtes had kicked or struck
me. and got all the sleep that was pos
sible-