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THE CRUELFIES OF SUTKESTITION. A jail efloor's work brings him into contact with manch that is sordid, suck that is revolt ing, but ocasionally he encounters something of pathos, of beautifal devotion Somo years age I was lospecting the jail at Alipuram (the name will to be found on the map) and aftar going the seal rounds, inspecting the

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Mr. Justice Harington at Caloutta engaged on July 22 In hearing a sass brought. by J. E. D. Ezra, against It. N. Mathews conducted by the HONGKONG AND his tenant. The came involved an important point at law regarding the liabilities of tonert,

The plaintiff in this suit sought the opinion of the Court on the point as to whether

arrangements, looking into the news entitled to cover from the defendant

and mediod registers, and generally enquiring iato the administration of the prisou I started fo inspect the prisoners themselves Those were of

of the usual type.

There was No. 5: burly Mohamedan who had slain his wife in Git of jabasy. He was hardly to be stamped Borimia. His action had probably the applause of his ova conscience and of the majority of his fellows the wife is the pro perty of her husband, and however, much le may in against marital fidelity, there is ne forgivesen for a similar lapse in her ons".

the difference between the rate assessed upon the East, by the Municipality and the actual amount of reni ressived by Ezra from Mathew- ron under the lansa The case was institnted under Section 527 of Chapter 38 of the Civil

Procedure Code.

The facta are as follows:-By a lease dated the 6th August 1879 the plaintif lessed to the deferdant No. 1, C'den ts otherwise known 49 Esplanade East for a period of 35 yaara at n rental of R 490 month, one of the torms and conditions of the leas being that Mr. Etre would during this term, baar, sustain pay or Near him was a man of the writer class

discharge all such') xs, revenues, chargos and who had been involved in one of thoas con-

impositions whatsoever which there were or fasions between menu and tuuse to which the

which shall or msy by taxed, skargad impésod confidential clerk at all times and in all

or assessed by any means whatsoever upon the countries has boeu liable. This man began at

said messungo tosament lend and promiskurayy once a voluble protestation of inocones, all ing upen Ram to witness that he was a auch part thereof and will

bo payable by or chargeable stor" Mr. Mathewson injured Indiyidanl. I lurned from hiningainst the lensor or proprietor.

s part alan "coresanted and agreed top syand disgust. The facts of the case ware from a

impo ray mind he had been conclusively proved disdage all such taxes, revues and to have betrayed in an utterly callon and is which were than or which shall be charga-

him or his assigua as th up

10nat or skilful my the confidence of his waployer,

At and the premeditation and inganlous planning pier of the said house and premises."

the time the lease was entered into the ware of his crime had removed all tendenur to leniency from the mind of the judge who had share of the Municipal rates wascalceata od upon the actual annual rental of Rs. 5,880 but since Contenced him.

18 the sessment had been increased by the Corporation to R10,800 and lol at that figure till Aptil 1977 since when it had been Curder increased.

Another prisoner was in for a robbery with violeach. It was one of those in whom the animal instincts seem supreme. His low re- treating forsheid, promiseut jaw, and small pig-like eyes gave him a rapulsively bestial aspect. Baniel was no loser by his sequestra tion. And so the types went on, forge ry, robbery, criminal aasanit, horse-breaking! auch wer the crime which had brougistrat of these men to their door.

"and raw," said the head warder, in whose company I was going round, "we will go over to the fonda side of the prison." Here were wooion who had been concerned in poisoning. Here were some who had even salated in dasoity. Many were old offenders, who livad by theft.

Ono woman, howeger, sasmed very unlike the reat. Ble was small and slenderly formed, and the dolicy of her features was rather subanend than diminished by the coarse prison garb. Her face wore an expression of utter abanden- ment and despair, and her downcast eyes were never raised from her task.

onli

Lader Section 172 of the Calcatta Municipal ci, Mr. Ezra claimed to recover the difference between the old assessment and the asseromont ow imposed, viz, Rs. 10,8 for a period of The defendant denied liability to thren years. pay this difference, or any part of it.

Ilis Lordship delivered the following judg- anal. The question raised in this case was whether the plaintiff was optitled to recover from the defendant the difference between the rate seosed upon the demised promises on a valuation founded on the actual rout pag ibla uud the valuation funded not on the anal rent payable bat on that which the Municipality had treated as the rent for which the premises sould be let, On behalf of the plaintiff it was submitted that ander the provisions of Section 172 of the Calentia Municipal Act 1899 hs was entitled to recover from the defendant, who was his fonant, the difference between the min assessed upon him as the owners share of consolidated rats, and the mum at which he would bare been used

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That is an extraordinary case" said the warder. Perhaps, you would like to speak the premises toon valued cely at the amount to the woman. I thick she will interest freut actas 'ty parable to him. The defendant 271

contended that under the provisions of Section you. Accordingly she was called up, when t>

astonishment she flung herself at my feet 171 the duty of paying one-half the consolidated and, burling into tears, fuxplored me to order rate was placed on the shy I lors of the landlordHE BANK OF TAIWAN LIMITEȚ and the the labor and tenant having agreed her to be hanged. I was amazed at sich an extraordinary request, and turning to the officer to bear, sustain, pay, and discharge all such taxes, each of them severally, they were asked him what it meant. He replied. "you revenues, charges and impretions as were im had better question her yourself, Fir. This is posad on not the first time she has asked this. She bag benud by the terms of their content and that eren handed me a petition which I must place the defeudaut could not be made to pay ander

Section 172 this difference which it wa in your hands, begging for her owe exscation."

I turned to the suppliant.

Come now. Intended, did not come within the courenant cannot allow this. What is it you really want!" which the tenant made, to pay all such taxes revenues and impositions as were then or Domi" was the reply, "I want to be hanged

shall be chargeable upon defendant his heirs, Whats vary strange ides. Why should you ask this" "Drai, she comes every night and executors administrators or assigns as tenant or tells ro to come to her! Whan ocres?"ecopier or teuarts or occupiers of the said pro- "My Lakshmi, my dear daughter, whom I killed,

"Yes," said the officer, she killed her only daughter, and is here awaiting transportation.

I determined to bear her out, and instructed the warder to have her brought to the prison office. Here I read through her petition and then asked her to usil me her whole story. She complied without hesitation, and, speaking in the Telage of an educated high caste roman, she said :—

Ine.

rises. In his Lordship's opinion the contap- tion of the landlord won the rect one on the statute and on the con rouant contained in the lease. By Section 171 the consolidated rate was payable by the owners and couplers in equal shares. The consolidated ra e merely case within the description of a tax, revenue, or imposition chargeable on the defendant a tonaut or occapier. The effect of Section 171

bled him to coup the defendant to pay at larger proportion of the rate by providing that he may get from the tenant the actual rent paid by the tenant. It appeared to bis Lordship that that payment which con- ituted a payment to the Landlord of a portion at what the landlord had paid as the rate on ma within the deesription of such taxes, revenues and imposition as were then or should be payable by the defendant. He thought that that coven- aut to pay what should become chargeable on the defendant in future rendered the defentent

Derai, you know that we women are married as oldiren. Often our husbands' die when wa are quits young and then the rest of our lives is spent in misery. I lost my husband soon after my little Lakshmi was born, and from that time onwards I never knew a happy hour. They cut off my hair. They took away my ercacients, They gave me ovory degrading and dirty tack tu do. I was the butt of every jeat. I was the scape-goat for all. My husband's family hated

They held me responsible for every miable to pay uuter Section 172, notwithstanding the fact that Section 172, vas not passed when fortane. They reviled me with the sint I must

la Tease was ande. For there reasona bis bava committed in this or a previous birth. No food was too coarse for me, no language too Lordship held that the plaintiff as entitled to

recover the sum which he claimed. harsh, no task too repulsive, I was never allowed I was not to join in any family festivition. even allowed to watch over the training of my or child. Soon, all. too soon, came the day of my little one's betrothal to a young man of our caste. I was excluded even from betrothal forst. Pressatly my child was sent to line with the parents of her husband. When

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they knows the embraces of marriage. Yet Miss Mint the ministerst she was: a widow. Her fate was as mine. West Malven Child though she was she was a widow. Henoa. It comes of% forth for her the widow's lot of misery. My action heart was broken. Day and night I thought of a statement dated January 8th, 1967, Mine her, my poor little Lukshmi. Only nine Bannister says years of age? She might live. to be seventy. And

and I still was not had constant beadaches often with dizziness, kraci Years went alland to see or hear of her. Only they and I was tortured with wied and stomach iled mo.

Like mother like daughter, they pains. My nerves got so weak that I could said. Far from boncuring the family by bear hardly keep still. I cannot describe how I felt the tou had becoise than pays daughter, and soul te hape and I saw to things year

a widow. The

to happen, used to throw myself gede were indead, angry with me. Dorai! I could hear it on the couch crying belplessly. Oh, Mather, no longer.

I resolved to see my daughter. By Mother! Olen I went into a half fainting patience and stealth I contrived to steal away state, hardly towing where I was. Nothing and seo her. She wept in my arms. Dorai! did me any good and I was to weak that I they had ill-trosted her. They bat branded was helpless. All the lila vesmed to be going her with hot irons. They had inflicted nameless out of me. shames and indignition. on her. Be srarealy

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yet a woman, was weary of life. Only in one mother got ne sme Mother Seigale Syrup, way could I help bor. I contrived to convey to and that was the first thing to do me any her little of the sleep of the gods (opinm) and good. It pat an end to the wind and beadaches, ste dept. Then they arrested mo. They tried and quieted my nerves; my appetite came ue and I rejoiced. They will slay my body, back, and I was quite well again."

I said, and at last I shall know rart. But no.

They were merciful! They did not slay me, Think what suffering Miss Bannister would Of their mercy they left me. Their mercy! have avoided had she taken Mather Beigel's Left me to linger here. In prison, disgraced, Syrup at first. Fully realise this, and you will had as the worthless ones. Looked upas a felon. not neglect the early symptoms of indigestion And every night he comes, my own little or biliousness with such a remedy at band. 59.3 Lakshmi. Comu with me, poor mother, sh

Barce Come with me. But Ian watched. I cannot slay myself. I zra

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