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It Made Him Fit and Earned Extra Rations

JOHN CHRISTOPHER MAINWARING`LON- SDALE, the 25-year-old Mayfair man sentenced to 18 months' hard labour for conspiracy in the Hyde Park Hotel jewel robbery in February last year, was released from Wandsworth Prison recently, having earned full remission of his sentence for good conduct.

At twelve minutes past seven the gates of the prison swung open and nine men walked out. Lonsdale was

one.

He waved a cheery "Good-bye" to the other eight, and then turned to greet his solicitor, Mr. A. Kramer, two other friends, 2017 and me.

Lonsdale looked up at the sky taught various subjects, including

geography, and all about him. breathed deeply economics,

general and exclaimed: "Gosh. this smells knowledge, and sometimes singing. really good."

This routine changes on Saturdays,

He was hailess and wearing when they stop work at mid-day and smart blue striped suit and blue spend the rest of the day and night overcoat. His ince is bronzed; he in the cells. On Sundays no work is looked as though he had just return-done, and breakfast is half an hour

He later. ed from the South of France. told us that he had spent the last few weeks heaving coal.

Lonsdale wus driven to a Chelsea fat for breakfast. Grape fruit, n lille bacon, sausage, and kidney, and coffee were what he chose.

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Roman Catholic, was a server at Mass in the prison chapel.

"My Job at Wormwood Scrubs was making binckboards in the carpen- ter's shop for the War Office," he said. "When I first went to Wandsworth they set me to works making scrubbing brushes and brooms. But I wanted that coal heaying.

"I am going to continue my life as though nothing hus happened," he said. "I am going to write a book about prison life-to blow the lid off the so-called prison reforms. i hope "The prison concerts are usually to start as soon as I have taken over good, though zometimes the artists

a furnished house in London. Friends are 'razzed by the men. When a have arranged it for me.

man is caught barracking' he goes

"Then I am going to carry on atto la cell for a few days on bread the job I know best-propaganda and water. work. Propapanda for the anti- "I remember one concert where

of Communist section 13e com Florence Desmond brought a party of

artists. munities throughout Europe,

I knew one of the artists "When I say will resume my personally-but there was no sign of The an either side. normal life I don't mean a round of recognition perties and night clubs. Actually I concerts are on Saturdays as a rule was never a Mayfair playboy, as is at Wandsworth-say about one a generally supposed. I lost my urge month

for playing round Mayfair years ago. "BLOWING THE LID OFF"

Row.

Sometimes there are fcctures."

A recent one was an hour's dia- sertation on timber.

"I am going to settle down to

"So far as I could gather 'hard I am hard as nails: serious work.

1 asked for the work of labour means that you don't have a heaving coal because hard manual mattress to sleep on. for the first 14 ework in the best thing when you have days. I slept on the bare boards, but many things on your mind in prison, hol used to it. You have with the I worked at the boilers of the prison mattress In the cell three blankets, and stoked coal, You get extra two sheets and a rock-hard pillow. rations-an extra half-pint of por

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ridge, an extra half-ounce of mar- "You don't have pyjamas, of course, garine, and four ounces more bread. You sleep in a shirt and wear the "I haven't smoked since I enteredzame shirt the following week dur- prison. It is strictly forbidden." Ing the daytime. They allow you to

After breakfast Lonsdale smoked have one bath a week. steadly.

THE "CAT"

"Many of the prisoners in Wands- worth are 'regular clients. They "I was in Wormwood Scrubs when seem to be in and out of prison. 1 Harley and Wilmer-two of the other remember one man who left the Three men sentenced-got the "eat." prison on a Wednesday, was arrested I saw them almost immediately after-by the police the same night, was

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have been many charged and sentenced at the police versions of what happened to them cauri, and was back in gaol at his old and how they behaved. I can tell job on the Friday. you that they got all the strokes- and they took it with a smile."

This was Lonsdale's regular, un- changing week-day in Wandsworth:

0.20 a.m.-Get up, wash, and have breakfast, consisting Invariably of half pint of porridge, Gaz, of bread, 4oz. margarine, and a pint of tea.

a.m-Go out to work, with half an hour's break for exercise (Which means tràmping round the exercise ground.").

We hear a lot about prison co- form. Wormwood Scrubs is qulle' an Old School Tio' prison com- pared with Wandsworth, for the prisoners at the Scrubs are usually more intelligent.

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"David Wilmer and Jenkins-the fourth man sentenced-are at Wake- feld Prison--the model prison. wanted to be transferred there, but had to go to Wandsworth instead.

MISSED FRESH FRUIT

12 noon. Back to the cell for "Anyway, we'll forget about the dinner, with varying diet over a case. I have served my sentence, and period of 28 days. During the dinner the whole thing is over and done with hour prisoners are brought a safety so far as I am concerned. razor for shaving.

"One thing I missed most In prison The dinner diet 2 p.m.-Back to work, with half an was fresh fruit hour' break for exerciso again, might interest you. One day you get stopping work at 5.30 p.m.

bully beef, another day. bacon and

2.45 pm-Back to the cell for tea beans with potatoes and cabbage, and supper combined, comprising other days what is called sca-pic, oz, cheese, oz. margarine, Goz. consisting of a piece of suet, somé bread and a pint of cocoa.

meat, potatoes and gravy, I was geiting very fat on the food." The evening is devoted to work in Lonsdale telephoned his father and the cell or attending classes arranged alster from the flat during the morn- for the prisoners, when they areling and arranged to see them later.

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