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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Reference :-
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Inclosure in No. 18.
A RETURN of Juvenile Prisoners who escaped from the Juvenile Asylum during the Years 1870, 1871, and 1872.
If again taken;
and Date when taken.
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to hospitals, gaols and prisoners, and criminal statistics, for the year 1873, with the Report of the Solicitor-General, acting as Attorney-General, on the latter."
2. I have not been in a position to forward these sooner, owing to delays connected with the original printing, and also the subsequent reprinting of the criminal statistics, referred to in my despatch of the same date, and further to my inability to procure an earlier report from Mr. Solicitor-General Reeves, who was busi y occupied with preparations for the Criminal Sessions when the Tables were placed in his hands.
March 2.
Names
of Prisoners.
Age. Date of Escape.
The manner and particulars of Escape.
Robert Beckles
12
Aug. 29, 1870 |
While employed at Windsor, escaped
into a field of cane.
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Retaken the same day,
August 29,
Jacob Blenman
13
Feb. 25, 1871
Escaped over the north-east corner
of prison wall.
Retaken the same day,
February 25,
Simon Peter Ellis
13
Sept. 14, 1871
While employed at Windsor, escaped
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Returned by Sergeant
into a field of cane.
Payne, of "D" Station,
on September 15, 1871.
Francis Thorne
13
George Thomas
George Thomas
13
James Holloway
13
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Feb.
13 Mar.
5, 1872
2, 1872
While employed at Bulkley, escaped
into a field of cane.
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Retaken the same day,
February 5,
Retaken the same time,
Mar. 5, 1872
May 14, 1872
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Tommy Clinton
13
Oct.
Birch Ford ..
13
Dec. 17, 1872 | While employed at Bulkley, escaped
into a field of cane.
Retaken the same time,
December 17.
(Signed)
A. SMITII, Keeper.
Certified:
Escaped, while removing rubbish
from the prison yard. While employed at Bulkley, escaped
into a field of cane.
While employed at Bulkley, escaped into a gully, and from thence into a field of cane.
Not taken; said to have
left the island.
Retaken, June 27, 1872.
1872.
4, 1872 While employed at Weeks, escaped Rotaken on October 9,
into a gully, and from thence into a field of cane.
(Signed) FREDK. WATTS, Inspector of Prisons. January 9, 1874.
(No. 10. Barbados.) Sir,
No. 19.
The Earl of Kimberley to Governor Rawson, C.B.
Downing Street, February 14, 1874.
I HAVE received your despatch No. 128 of the 27th of December,* forwarding a report of a Committee of the Council and Assembly of Barbados on prison accom- modation, in which an addition is recommended of 100 cells to Glendairy Prison.
2. I have received this Report with much satisfaction, and have no doubt that you
will use your best endeavours to press forward the work with dispatch.
3. With regard to the remarks of the Committee on the abolition of imprisonment for debt, I have to observe that imprisonment for debt has been abolished in England except in certain cases of fraud, and debts under 501., in which latter case imprison- ment not exceeding six weeks may be awarded, and that legislation of a similar kind has been adopted in many colonies, and I have to request you to consider whether the subject should not be brought publicly before the Legislature of Barbados.
4. I have to refer you on this subject to Earl Granville's circular despatch of the 18th of September, 1869, in which was forwarded the Imperial Act of that year for the abolition of imprisonment for debt, and the punishment of fraudulent debtors.
No. 20.
I have, &c.
(Signed) KIMBERLEY.
Governor Rawson, C.B., to the Earl of Carnarvon.—(Received January 28.)
(No. 6. Barbados.) My Lord.
Barbados, January 6, 1875.
I HAVE the honour to forward, in accordance with the instructions of your Lordship's predecessor, separate copies, in duplicate, of the Blue Book Returns relating
* No. 17..
(No. 9. Barbados.) Sir,
I have, &c.
(Signed)
RAWSON W. RAWSON.
No. 21.
The Earl of Carnarvon to Governor Rawson, C.B.
Downing Street, February 27, 1875.
I HAVE had under my consideration the Returns relating to Crime and Prison Discipline, forwarded in your despatch No. 6 of the 6th of January.t
2. The Colony of Barbados possesses in Glendairy a prison which is in most respects a model structure ; but all the other prisons in the Colony are deficient in every structural
and disciplinary requirement; and their state is far from creditable to such a community. Worst of all is the Town Hall Gaol. The various questions connected with this gaol were referred to a Select Committee of the two Houses of Legislature. I have not been informed of the result of their labours. But I trust that they may result in a recom- mendation that the prison be removed, and a new one on the cellular system constructed in a more convenient situation for the detention of the prisoners who are now lodged at the Town Hall.
3. 1 observe that Mr. Watts speaks disparagingly of shot-drill of penal labour. I am aware of the objections to be urged against shot-drill; but until as a species the Colony provides for the employment of the prisoners on the tread-wheel, or at the crank, I cannot agree to the abolition of shot-drill, although I should of course assent to a modification of the present regulations, which would admit of the weight of the shot used being adapted more fitly than at present to the strength of the prisoners.
4. I observe, with pleasure, the degree of care which Mr. Watts appears to bestow on the discharge of his duties. I am not aware whether the Legislature would be pre- pared to sanction his receiving some slight remuneration for his duties as Inspector of Prisons. But, I think, such remuneration might very properly be proposed if the Legis- lature are likely to agree.
I have, &c. (Signed)
CARNARVON.
No. 22.
Governor Rawson, C.B., to the Earl of Carnarvon.—(Received April 28.)
(No. 42. Barbados.) My Lord,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge your Lordship's despatch No. 9 of the 27th
Barbados, April 7, 1875. February, upon the subject of the defective arrangements in the several minor prisons of this Colony, especially that of the Town Hall Gaol.
2. I have again brought the matter, with a copy of your Lordship's despatch, before the Legislature. The hesitation to take action in the matter of the Town Hall Gaol lies with the Assembly. The Council is ready to make the required change.
3. With reference to a remark in your Lordship's despatch, that you had not been informed of the result of the labours of the Joint Committee of the two Houses of the Legislature, I forwarded copies of the Committee's Report to your Lordship's prede- cessor on the 7th of December, 1873. I now supply the sequel up to the present date.
4. That Report was presented to the Assembly on the 2nd December. On the following day the Auditor-General, then a Member of that House, gave notice of his intention to introduce a Bill to carry out the recommendations of the Committee. On the
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