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MR. BOTTOMLEY'S PRISON EXPERI- ENCE.

A DERBY DAY TRAGEDY.

RUMINATIONS ON PRISON FARE.

Of all the things he has learnt in prison the one which Mr. Bot- tomley apparently finds most dif- cult to forget is the first day at Wormwood Scrubs.

"Think of it," he reminded his friends.

"It was Derby Day, and as 1 paced my cell there I could hear the tootling of the horns and the roar of the traffic on the way to Epson, and there' was I, who had not missed a Derby for many years, and who had a

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"But there was no result. Then the Labour Government came sad I decided to do nothing until I bad completed a full two years. I accordingly waited until May 1924, when I wrote to Mr. Henderson, who was the Home Secretary, call- ing his attention to the fact that the expected order for my release bad not arrived-only to be told in reply to make up my mind that I should have to do the full time."

From that date I have never Executive Council, in the Dail again raised the question of my removed the second reading of the lease. My hopes revived a little when I saw prospect of Mr. Public Safety Bill, which is design Baldwin's Government coming ed to deal with crimes such as the back.

But alas and lack they recent assassination of Mr. Kevin had chosen the Ross Campbell ease as their battle cry in turning O'Higgins, and, with other treason. out the Labour Party, and thence ablo, acts and conspiracies, Mr. forward anything and everything Cosgrave, in a crowded house, savouring of an interference with which included' Mr. Belton, a mem- Star Ferrie the course of justice was taboo."

Mr. Bottomley also had some her of the Fianna Fail, who has Waterboat...... thing to say with regard to "his taken the oath, referred to the Ch

Ülina suara special privileges."

Malabonn activities of the so-called Army Benguots

Sugare A Grievance.

Council of the. Irregulars, and Kailas Mining Ad................ clared, I was the only convict

"As a matter of fact," he de gave dates of their meetings. He Lanka (combined)......la, 17; bay.

La. (single) forget that moment."

who was not permitted to have the

"We have information to that. Explorations Another memory that stands out usual notebook and pencil, and show that the meeting of this so. Shanghai Loans

Baube vividly in Bottomley's recollection although I lodged in hospital I called Army Council discussed the Tronch Mines

worked in the printing and book-

Deal Caspiana is of a Sunday in Maidstone Fri-binding shop every day and was possibility of M. de Valera's party CARET

"I noticed a good not allowed to attend Saturday entering the Dail, and a sugges. Dobrza... soa chapel. looking young man joining whole or debates, or to have what is call who took the cath should be shot New E

evening lectures, entertainments, tion was made that any Republican Bangkawi Tls, 44 buy. heartedly in the service. He seered talking exercise. I reached

Engineering T25, as a traitor. This is the organisa- Shanghai. Dook ........Th. Sa bay. ed to know the ritual perfectly, the various stages to which these tion which repudiated the assassina. H.K. & S. Hotels.36) 203. and as he was a newcomer I in-

privileges were attached.

tion of Mr. O'Higgins. While it

HK Lands The other convicts wanted me is assumed that this organisation

$54.55 bay, 55 a Kong Raltys......$6 sal quired who he was, and was told to give a series of lectures on the as a whole did not plot to carry

Territorials that he was Patrick Mahon, the British Constitution and the work. out the assassination, there is very Humphreys Estates.

bay, 12tral man accused of cutting up a wo Courts, but these were forbidden. it did. It is clear that this revolu-ra Cottons.Th. 7.35 buy.

iag of Earliament and the Law little doubt that some section of race's Building......

Lands ..........Bij nom, man at Eastbourne."

When Mr. Bottomley started to tionary organisation is mennee Urientals The first year of Bottomley's discuss the events which led up to the peace and security and Shanghai Cottons (old)...Th. 51 20m. Tla 1 bay. imprisonment was spent at Worm- penal servitude something of the must be taken to break it up and Chins Buses

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I should care to do so or not; there ted and carried out jacket and he was put into the are certain legal difficulties which

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ing."

branded

the following week," he said, "I shall begin a series of articles revealing the secrets of the prison House, and a little later will come the Humour of Prison Life (for it does have its humorous side); illustrated by a brilliant black and white artist who hapened to be studying the subject on the spot for a couple of years.

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The Everlasting Chop." Although he worked in the book binding shop Bottomley slept in the hospital building and, as a hospital patient, was entitled to 1 special menu. This is what, se cording to the man who had habi- tually dined at exclusive restaurants, it was: "Breakfast, served at 7 am, consisted of bread and margarine and tea; supper, at either four or five o'clock, was the same thing again; while the main item at dinner, served at a quarter past 12, was an eternal and everlasting 'chop, which I which I whiled away many Government to withdraw the pre- became so tired of wrestling with hour and which I hope will com- that I often asked to be put upon pare the more varied prison menu."

Eating to Live.

With the restaurants and hotels of the West End again open to him. Mr Bottomley looks bacia philosophically on his dietry of the last five years, and says, "You have to regard it simply as a beli ly fuel containing just enough vitamins, calories, and proteids to keep the engine going, and then shut your eyes and, swallow, it And as the average cost per head of a convict's food is about 3. 6d. per week, it is obvious that the menu is not of 1 character."

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and those responsible would carry out further deeds of violence unless "Weekly Dispatch" Articles. special steps were taken to show "Ex-convict Bottomley," as he then that they had no chance of calls himself, is full of plans for success. The present bill was not the future. He was telling his panicky. Na law-abiding citizen nephew exactly what he is going had any reason to be afraid of its to do. He said that in an article provisions. "I ask the Dail he it writing for The Weekly Dis-give the people a chance to live patch he thinks he will stir the their lives in peace and scurity, and effects, including much unemploy to consider the disastrous economic heart of the nation."

ent, which are likely to ensue if Lane Crawfords.. Fowers are denied to the executive Mackintoshs.. to deal effectively with the menace dinceres to stability which is indicated by United Asbestos 812 Bel President. the assassination of the Vice- Wazon (old) .................$ilį nom.

Wm. Powellsprosentera...şü šál, Mr. Thomas Johnson, Leader of Telephones.................... ........$5.70 sel the Labour-party-moved-as-an--bay-bayers; sal.—mo amendment that the bill be read a second time on this day fortnight. This, he said, would, if carried, amount to an instruction to the sent bill, and on Thursday fort

introduce not unfavourably with the night to

new bill. effusions of Oscar Wilde thirty There was nothing but what was years ago.

"Then I shall tell for cowardly and vicious in the as- the Brat time my true life story, sasination of Kevin O'Higgins, if only for the purpose of correct and he and his party were prepar-" ing some amazing Lives which ed to give the executive power to appeared when my hands and feet suppress crime and criminal ac

tivity. But the present bill Went may also undertake a lecture much further than that. It pro tour and I am not sure that I posed to set aside the ordinary should be ashuned to appear in constitutional guarantees and to

Mr. Bottomley set up military curts forthwith. prison uniform. recounted how a syndicate bad Mr. Ernest Blythe, Vice-Presi- offered princely terms for a lecture dent of the Executive Council, said tour In the United States and the Government was determined Canada, while another wanted to te arm itself with adequate powers film him.

And in about a month's time there will be a volume of "Sons of the Ceil" with the composition of

were tied.

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By the means of the privilege movement granted to him of reading The strength that no power, however Els. Views on Champagne, Daily Mail for the last six months drastfe, could control it. Deputy Bottomley, who has been pictur. and The Weekly Dispatch for the Johnson was under a complete mis- ed by some of his friends as a last twelve Mr. Bottomley declares apprehension in regard to military O

The Government merely man who regarded champagne as that he has been able to keep in courts. a necessity to his everyday exis- touch with public affairs, and in sought authority to set up and and wines in the light of his five stone Prison he has formed very ing justice failed. years' experience at Wormwood definite ideas od world' affairs. Scrubs and Maidstone: "Food As he discussed matters with his never troubled me much, and, be family circle it was easy to im- nonsmoker, 1 escaped what agine that he fancied himself back

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tence, has this to say about food the solitude of his cell in Maid. I utilise them if other means of do-OP aing

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I found to be the principal priva-again pa the public platform.

As regards * We

appear to have struck a vein driak, I had never been either of most doleful mediocrity," he

tion

prisoners.

beer or spirit drinker, while us to declared, and so overwhelming wine, although I have been describ are ita forces that the few men of

ed

悲痛 kind of Gargantuan brains at present in public life aro

a.

guzzler, mopping up rivers of completely submerged."

champagne, don't think I have

ever drunk a glass when alone.

But I'll be more careful in future STOP INDIGESTION WHERE with whom I partake of it."

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said:

"The general election came in the autumn of 1923 and, anticipat ing-the defeat of the Government, wrote to Mr. Bridgeman, the Home Secretary, reminding him of what I understood to be the post tion and asking him before loay ing office to give a definite date for my release.

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