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precise charge on which the prisoner. was tried. My instructions of the 18th
were that he should be.
of July. charged with attempting to break- prison. If there was not evidence to sustain that it would seem to have been idle to charge him in the Supreme Court with a mere breach
discipline.
of prison
Acting
As regards the prisoner
himself I should wish the new
ceperintendent, who assimes duty today
to send for him and
so placed
say
that he is
in the lowest class, but
that he may be able to raise himself out of it by strict obedience in future to the orders of the prison Officials,
that if he is again guilty of a breach
of prison discipline he will be n
prison-discipline severely punished.
(signed) I. Pope Hennessy.
15th August, 1897.