CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 523

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and at 19 M. 25th another

similarration, being, with the exception of two, all liberated within two hours

afterwards. Muring thirty six hour of confinement they had two meals us supplied to them and most of them had

addition, articles

in

If food brought by their friends.

From the foregoing fact it will be readily seen that the inclemenag of the weather to which the prisoners wvere, subjected, there having

been no pain or

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or biting frost,

existed only in

the too

vived imagination of the newspaper reporter .

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respects the pries, made by the prisoners and disturbing the neigbourhood thereby

Javcertained at the time

that the prisoners did,

as any number of prisoners

would do, amuse themselves

& noise,

by making a greats and this the newspaper.

reporter, who resides in the vicinity of the Gaol, being hungry to pander to toe.

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