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that I wished to see the
superintendent. Ryan wished
to know what for. I told him
it was not any
business
of
his. The
door was then open. He came
inside and said that my time was nearly up and that as he had an old score to settle with
me on account of complaint I made against him, I might
as well do it then.
He then struck me several
times. I was sitting on the
bed at the time, with my
hands full of oakum, she knocked
the iron
bar
against
the
side
of
the
bedstead. I called out for help. I made no resistance. A swing
of his hand cut my face in
several places. My cries attracted Acting Warden Jones, who came and took Ryan away. She was striking
me when Jones came
and I was down on the bed
covered with blood. She had
struck me while I was down.
Turnkey Wherry saw the whole
of
the
assault. I wanted to see the
superintendent about the behaviour of Turnkey Ryan the evening before. He shouted at me, and seemed trying to provoke
me.
Ryan had nothing in his hand. My previous
complaint of Ryan
was that
he did not answer me when
I called him.