HOW DO THEY MANAGE IT?
THOSE SUICIDES IN GAOL. As a result of tlie recent suicides in the Lyttelton and .Wellington Prisons, a question naturally, arises as to how the victims came to' be in possession of the ropes by which they hanged themselves. At tho inquest at tho Terrace' Gaol on Sunday last, the evidence showed that it was the hammock ropo with. which, the man Gilford took hi? life. Inquiries maldaby a reporter elicited the information; that a loose rope forms part of the equipment of practically every hammock in 1 ths different gaols. The hammock is .per-' manently adjusted to one wall of the. cell by a sliort piceo of rope at the .two corners. When'. tho, hammocks are let down' in; the ovening, ths other end' is fixed' to a bar iD the opposite wall' by two longer ropes, with loops at the end. Each morning the blankets are . falded and placed on a shelf in a corner of tho cell, and then the hammock is rolled up to the wall and neatly tied with the loose pieces of rope. Some, years ago straps were used for this purpose, but, as'they wore-iiot,,so,, easily ..replaced when they became perished and worn, they .were superseded by ropes. / ,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1011, 29 December 1910, Page 4
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209HOW DO THEY MANAGE IT? Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1011, 29 December 1910, Page 4
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