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WHAT shall we have for Breakfast? This question is asked -in nearly every household in the East every day in
MY FORTY YEARS IN PRISONS.
The greatest deprivation a convict has to endure is the
enforced abstinence from tobacco, and many are the plots made to a little smuggled into the prison.
s:
carried out.
"SPRAGS ON MOTORCAKŚ.
A USEFUL PLAN.
On being told "Yes," he would ask to
the coins be shown used for the purchase. Taking a penknife from his pocket, be [BY FRANCIS J. BOAIT]
would then carefully scrape away
We have seen one or two new: For the past forty years Mr. a part of the gold, exposing the
ears lately on which sprags have Bosit bas been a prison school-silver gilt underneath.
It would appear, to the ordinary been fitted, says an exchange. master at Portland, Wandsworth, Wormwood Scrute, and Borstal. shopkeeper, that the coins were With horse-drawn vehicles the
is commonly BA means of His experiences among the many bad. They would be taken charge spra
pre- notorious criminals he has met of be the false detective, in order ployed
the vehicle moving during his interesting career make that "investigations" might be venting
backward should a
be stop thrilling reading:-
My friend, the convict, thought made in ascending a steep hill. that with luck they might work Some early cars had spragy fitted! this game at least twice a day, and with the same, object. but as thereby get a good living. I don't breaking systems became more know if he ever tried his experi- efficient most makers discard- ment, for 1 never saw him agained them. This is rather regret- matoz- after he left prison.
table, for the sprag on a car has uses apart from the ordinary brake. Une conspicuous advantage is that it enables the driver to start the car on a steep hill with the brakes released. To accelerate the engine, engage the clutch, and release the hand or foot brake simult One evening, just as the teach-aneously is not always the easi- ing staff were leaving the prison,est of operations, When a sprag a cab drove up, and there des- is fitted this automatically comes cended from it a tall, distingui-out of sction as the car moves shed-looking man, dressed in the forward. The simplest form of height of fashion. He Was sprag consists of a bar hinged to accompanied by another man in the frame of the car and having a device at its lower end which more ordinary attire.
engages with the road.
Its slang term in prison is
In 1898 1 left Portland and anout," and a tiny piece will joined the staff at Wormwood buy many tokes." the prison | Scrubs. MF work there was term for the small loaf served slightly different from that at out to convicts.
Portland. The prisoners were no longer taught in the evening classes, but bad individual atten- tion in their cells.
There are always men outside the walls willing to sell "spout to prisoners at about eight times its market value if the transfer jean be arranged I know the price, because an inmate of my own house was nate asked to do a little of this trafficking.
This was how it happened: The boundary wall of the yard of my quarters was the outside wall of the prison, and on the prison side of it was the blacksmiths shop where there was a large filter.
come
As our drinking water had be
contaminated we were Ster, the sapplied from this water being brought to the bark door by a convict, and delivered to out domestic. One day my wife brooght me a small parcel which | had been thrown over the wall! into our yard.
In it was a love-letter to Mary Jane, a bone tooth-pick, and a long-letter-written to a prisoner by a well-cultured person.
CONVICTS' TRICKS.
On inquiry was informed that he was Lord William Neville, who had that day been convicted
When out of action the sprag is (usually beld clear of the road by of fraud and sentenced to term cord. If the driver wishes to of penal servitude. He took his stop on a steep hill be should punishment like a man. obeyed release the sprag before the car all the rules, and never gava comes to a standstill. Should be wait antil the car bas trouble to anybody.
After being at Wormwood, begun
backwards to move Scrubs between six and seven the sprag will either bring it up was transferred to with a severe jerk or be over-rua years, I Wandsworth Prison. which is and become ineffective. A batter chiefly used for men who have and neater form of sprag that was short sentences to serve. It is fitted to a few cars consisted of a quite common on a Monday after-large pawl running over ratchet noon to receive a batch of one teeth cat on some revolving parti Sundred. These are the Saturday of the transmission gear. night drunk cases, who, in lieu
of paying the usual fice of five The love-letter, aiter many ex-sbillings, prefer to accept the pressions of endearment, told the hospitality of the country for Sometimes when girl that the tooth-pick, made our seven days. of a bore the convict had found the week bas half gone their in his ration of meat, was for her. friends bring half a crown to the and would she please write to the prison and redeem the prisoner. address heading the enclosed let- ter, and ask his mother to send ber a sovereign.
With this money she was to to buy half a pound of hard twist tobacco, and place it under a certain stone just outside the back door. The change she was to keep for herself.
FRANCE'S LOST PRESTIGE IN THE ORIENT,
EXPLANATION DEMANDED BY M. BRIAND.
Many of those detained at Wandsworth are debtors. Some
The Eclair, which has BUC- own. instead of paying their debts, prefer to serve a short time ceeded in obtaining some de- in prison. One man I knew tails regarding the last sitting always worked out his rates in of the Foreign Affairs Commit tee of the Chamber, declares that this way.
These debtors are not like it was after the intervention ordinary prisoners. They are of M. le Nail on the subject of the Syria and the situation in kept by themselves, allowed to
denied all knowledge of, or
On being questioned, our gwear their own clothes, and may activities of the Eroir Feisal that! friendship with, the sender of the work or not, as they choose. It M. Daniela demanded that M. parcel, and if she had acceded to seemed very strange to an old Berthelot should be heard by the bis request she would have been convict oficial like myself to see Commission with regard to the Emir, as also with regard to the well in the spider's web, for the their clean liden brought in on agreements concluded with the
Saturday morning. enclosed letter did not belong to
future frontiers of Syria. him at all. He bad stolen it from another man, and it was a cunning plan to get the tobacco for nothing.
the necessary informa-
FIVE TRAGIC MINUTES.
M. Briand demonstrated how It was at Wandsworth Prison difficult it was to arrive at a sabe that I saw a man hanzed. He decision with regard to the was a cheerful old fellow. and Orient question, so long as the A few years ago London was looked forward to his execution Foreign Affairs Committee bad! received from the Blooded with gilded sixpences. with perfect esim. his chief trouble not which did daty for half-sover-being that be had a touch of rout Government eigns. There had been a new in his toe. For this he took and indispensable issas of sixpence which. except raedicine right up to the morning tion on the subject. Thus it was, because M. Millerand, who was in colour. perfectly resembled of his death. half-sovereigns.
An execution is a very solemn quite within his rights, refused to This gilding idea was not at busines. No cells are unlocked allow General Franchetd'Esperay all a new dodge. Quite twenty-until it is over, no work is to come to Paris to explain before five years ago I was talking to a attempted, and there a Sunday the Committee that M. Briand prisoner who was about to be morning hash over everything was induced to demand the pro- discharged, and asked him what Fortunately it does not take long duction of the reports and tele- his prospects were. He said he From the time the hangman grams of the General.
It was necessary, as a matter only wanted fire sovereigns as enters the condemned relt until capital. and, with a pal to help the drop falls is less than five of fact said M. Briand, to know exactly why France, who was him, he had a fine living in his minutes. hands.
After an execution has taken just as victorious on the Salonica This was to be his mode of pro-place a coroner holds an inquest front as on the western front, had cedure. He would take the on the body, and a verdict having been able to lose in the Orient all sovereigns and cover them with been returned declaring the the prestige of her strength. It silver cilt. On the top of this be sentence of the judge to have was equally important to learn General Franchet would re-gild the coins with been carried out, the murderer is what led gold. He was now ready for buried within the precincts of the d'Esperey to leave Constant- tinople and to abandon to a work, and would go into a shop | jail.
B command and buy five pounds worth of In the wall surrounding this British general goods, paying for them with his burial place at Wandsworth which belonged to France. It five sovereigns.
Prison are cat the initials of the was of the highest Interest that When he had left the shop, and dead lying there, amongst them members of the Foreign Affairs was fairly out of sight, bis partner being the notorions baby-farmer Committee should go and inform would enter and say he was's and murderess, Mrs. Dyer. Not themselves on the spot, in Con- detective from Scotland Yard. far from her lie the bodies of two stantinople, as well as in Syria, Giving an accurate description of brothers. Neither of them was regarding the exact situation his pal be would ask if such a twenty-one years of age. They which has been created for man had been there that day, were hanged for causing the France.
This suggestion was fually saying he was a notorious passer death of an old woman who kept
adopted unanimously. of spurious coine.
a small shop at Brixton,
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