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I was on low diet from 22nd to 30th April.
I did not speak to any Chinamen in Gaol who had been flogged.
The first four days after first flogging I picked oakum. On fifth day I got three days rice and water for not completing my oakum task.
After this I picked oakum in morning and carried stones in afternoon. For two days I carried stones in afternoon. I refused to carry stones any longer. I could not do it as I was an opium smoker, my opium craving came on.
I would sooner now do hard labour than get a flogging.
(The witness, on being weighed on Fairbank's scale, scaled 107 ibs. with clothes.)
Further Meeting held on Monday, 8th June, 1896.
Present: His Honour Mr. T. SERCOMBE SMITH, (Acting Puisne Judge), Chairman.
Hon. Commander W. C. H. HASTINGS, R.N., Acting Police Magistrate. Dr. ATKINSON, Acting Colonial Surgeon.
ROBERT HENRY CRAIG examined.
THE CHAIRMAN—You are chief warden at Victoria Gaol ?
WITNESS-Yes.
Q-You have duties connected with floggings ?
A-I have.
Q-What are those duties?
A-To see that the punishment ordered is carried out.
Q-You have to be present at the floggings?
A--I have to be present at the infliction of all corporal punishments.
Q-Is the certificate of the doctor given to you?
A-It is given to me personally.
Q-Have you ever conducted any floggings here without that certificate ?
A-Never.
Q--When did you come here ?
A-I landed in the Colony on the 9th February, 1895.
Q--Will you describe the way in which floggings are administered, the instruments used, and the way in which prisoners are kept quiet?
A--The prisoners are triced up on the regulation triangle and then fastened at the wrists and round the ankles and with a belt round the body just above the breech.
Q--What are the fastenings round the wrists and ankles ?
A--The ankles are strapped and the wrists are fastened by a rope run through a pulley. Then the prisoner would be prepared to receive the whipping.
Q--How is the whipping administered?
A--One of the officers or two--
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