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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.