New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-10-27
and I was practically a mental wreck.

and l was practically a mental wreck.
After l had again recovered from the
effects of the dark hole a prisoner by the
name of Owen attempted to sell a prisoner
by the name of Lynch some hat bands. Shortly
after that l was accused of telling Lynch
that Owen was "snytch," and that the prison
officials had put him on as an extra guard
to watch him. l begged the prison officials
to bring Owen face to face with me that I
might prove the charge to be false, for I had
not even spoken to Owen or Lynch about
anything at all, but again I got ten days on
bread and water, and later the solitary cell
for ninety days. While in the solitary cell I
took the ventilator out, and for this had the
ball and chain and stripes added to my pun
ishrnent.
During my term I wrote Warden Nc
Mannis fifteen notes, asking him to come in
and see me, but each note was ignored and
he refused to come. At last | wrote him an
interview slip saying: See IL chapter, verse
7 of the book Of St. Matthew" and for teach
ing the gospel of the SAVIOR to this warden of
men, | again got ten days in the solitary cell.
my mother came from Arizona and beg
ged Mcdonald for a parol for me, and he
promised her he would get it, and advised
her TO 90 on back home, and as soon as the
pardon board met | would be set free. She
went home, and Mcdonald kept silent, Just
as the other prisoners had told me he would do
they knew hirn-I didn't at that time.
There are many other men vet in this
penitentiary who are getting the same treat
rnent as | received. | have known of prisoners
living in there as high as one hundred and
eight days on bread and water. One prisoner
! remember in particular was No. 1924, but
[ don't know his name. At the time he was
put on bread and water he was a strong,
robust man, but at the end Of the time he
was a mere skeleton.
Il have read a great deal in the papers
about the big feeds the prisoners receive, but
TO the men in the prison these articles are a
Joke. Most of the men confined in the pen
what money they can get hold of for
something to eat, and pay 20 per cent more
for it than it costs the men on the outside.
"But the treatment | received is nothing
compared with what Harry Devore is now
going through. Devore was charged with
trying to escape over two years ago. He was
placed in the solitary cell, and during the en-
two years has been kept there. Think
Of it; two years of solitary confinement
never see anybody except a guard who oc-
.casionally inspects your cell never a human
being to speak to you or for you to speak to
to read, nothing to do, only sit in
your cell and tlink-dark bitter thoughts
with the picture of a beautiful girl, k~neeling at
her trundle bed and praying for the return
Of father, while the tears of wife, mother
and sister are flowing free, and haunting
you every hour; never to hear from home,
,- t,tlC or f1,iI1 W .,ottor Vac rot +6,I
barrel. and the black hole, and bread and water,
and short sentences in the solitary cell, but
never got the punishment Harry Devore is
through today, and I hope | never
will. Two years ago Devore was a big strong
nall-strong in body, in mind and in will.
Today he is the mere pittancc of a shadow,
hin, emaciated, and almost a living skeleton;
MS MIND lettering on the verge of insanity
A human being undergoing the meanest tor
that is meted out in the, regions of the
Tanned. But his troubles will soon be over.
Only a few more months and the solitary cell
send Harry Devore to his grave, and the
world will be none the wiser as to its cause.
have a few dollars worth of property left,
and this | intend to give to some lawyer to
light the condition that exist in that institu-
ion, which are worse than the Black Hole of
-alcutta.'
In speaking of the manner in which the
men are generally treated Musgrave said:
when the men are not at work they
nave to walk the yard all day, and | have
,cen men tramping the yard in the heavy
,oarse shoes of the prison with as many as
hree and four patches on the bottom Of their
.ocks, and at night when they would pull off
heir shoes there would be large blisters on
heir feet, but they tramped just the same
he next day. The men are forced to wear
he same underwear both winter and summer,
nd on the cold winter days when the time
or walking is over, are forced to their
ellis, which are more than twenty feet from
he steam pipes, and many times the men go
o their beds shaking with cold. At one time
man in the last stages Of consumption was
,laced in the same cell with me, and at the
ime | had just been turned out of the dark
and was suffering with a severe cold
in the dungeon, and my lungs were
ore from breathing the fetid air. l begged
he prison officials to change the consunp-
i've to another cell, but they refused to do
o until | appealed to the prison physician,
,ho Immediately ordered the change made,