my door and Mr Ryan again came to the door to pass the bucket in, I then remarked to him, that the vacuum tarry thaw renal, he asked me if I thought it had been especially picked out for me. I replied that any officer would, I did not think sufficiently malicious to do so.
He then put the usual question in a particularly offensive manner, "Did I wish to see the superintendent?" I said "yes". They asked "what for?" I replied "I don't wish to tell you", he immediately became abusive, reopened the cell door, came in, and said "I have an old score to settle with you" for my former report, and at the time doing my work, when the officer struck me with his fist, having what appears to be a ring on his hands and then followed it up with a succession of blows until the acting Warden drawn to the place by my cries for assistance pulled him away. She did not leave the cell until the acting warden put him out. One cut on my face is very severe. I did not give him provocation in the slightest degree.
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