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

Am 1 show for all Warsaw to see?
have suffered your brutality"
Silence. 1 say. Disobedient scoun-
dTels get the lash here"
I sneered and shrugged my shoulders.
You miserable coward; a mere cur I'm
Office. barking only when you think II
safe"
This had the infuriating effect 1
wished He lost control of himself. and
pushing the two warders aside, he
rushed forward with hand raised to
strike me.
I let him come quite close. and then
hit him full on his insOlent mouth. put
ting all my weight and strength behind
the blow. He went down like a ninepin,
and so far as he was concerned, the
interview was over.
A pretty considerable row followed
/ The two warders threw themselves on
me and shouted Justify for help. Others
rushed to the cell i'm d ferment Of ex-
eitement and clustered between me and
the bully, much as though 1 were a
wild beast. He was carried of. and
Volna, in a maze OF distress and con-
sternation' was taken away at the same
time.
I was now considered TO be a desperate
and dangerous prisoner. Handouts
were placed on my wrists and irons on
my legs, neither Of the operations being
performed gently.
But 1 did not care. 1 had got back
a little of my own from the brute. and
they might do what they pleased with
me now. What that would be, was
soon to learn.
I was huddled up on my pallet in the
exceedingly uncomfortable position
which the irons permitted when the
/ governor Of the gaol and a couple Of
other officials entered with some ward
! ers.
He read me q short lecture upon the
| Nervousness Of my awful offense, and
! told me that men had been killed who
| had done less. and then announced that
my punishment would be the inout.
Three hundred lashes to be admins
tered at intervals of a week, a hundred
lashes each time.
Il am an Englishmsn, and claim the
right TO communicate with the British
consul, and also my friend, General Won
Eckerstein."
You don't dare to deny that you
struck Colonel BremenhOf?'
My quarrel is personal with him.
He sent me here I'm the first instance
without any cause and was going to
strike me when I hit him."
ElDuAus WIS the stern reply. 7 GU
have admitted your infamous act. The
first portion Of your punishment win be
administered tomorrow" and with that
he turned on his heel and left me to my
own reflections.
They were gloomy enough. I had
once seen a man knouted, and had
WINGED as the lash tore the flesh from
the poor DEVILS back. I would rather
have been sentenced to be shot at once;
and for a few mad moments 1 INDUCED
in wild thoughts OF self-destructlOn or
of attempting a fierce attack on some
one in the prison which would bring a
capital sentence.
What baffied me as much as anything
was that Colonel Bremenhof had ad-
dressed her by her Christian name.
What could he be to her, or she to him?
He had evidently brought her to the
prison to identify me; but what could
be his motive? Could she have fallen
under suspicion? What did he know,
and how had he guessed that she and
I had been together Had she been
confronted with the police agent OF the
Devils Staircase incideut2 Was she TO
be charged? That did not seem possible
in view Of the fact that she was ap-
parently free and he had spoken 70 her
as a friend.
To be continued next suday.