PRISONER STRIKES A WARDER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1073, 11 March 1911, Page 10

PRISONER STRIKES A WARDER.

"A BIG SPELL OK'BREAD "AND WATER."' (Sy Telegraph—Press. Association.) Auckland, March 10. Guarded by four stalwart warders, a young man—he looked,«to bo :about 21 years ...of . ajje—was ,;iiiarchcd uito the board-room, at Mount Eden Gaol to-day: His name is ' Eraiilt 'Logaii; alid ho is physically a fine speoimen of athlete. Ho was convicted on a chargo of breaking and entering in . Auckland, and sentenced' to four years' ■ imprisonment; and since his incarceration his conduct has been anything biit" commendable. Ho was brought before Mr. E. C. Cut : ton, S.M., to answer a chargo of committing a breach of prison regulations of more : than ordinary ;gravity. When Mr. Cutteii'asked whether he had anything to say, ho promptly replied "Guilty." Mr;'To'ynt'o&;"G6v6rnbr"or tho Gaol, explained that on February 27 Logan was brought before ono of the visiting justices of--the poaco>to answer a.minor charge of insubordination.. - After being dealt-- with,, and as lie . was being removed by an officer, ho turned round and struck Warder Bemroso a violent blow on the face with his clenched fist.

' -;"What; you," to; "s&£ ,* tp this charge ?"■ aslctd tho" Magistrate; ■ - ,! Nothi«g'>-wlmt6ver," said the prisoner.*- ■ k •• • '' ' ' Proceeding, Mr. Poynton said that in tho. Magistrate's Court not very long ago Logan made a violent assault upon Chief Wardor M'Murray before -lie was removed from the Court..

His Worship: And have you nothing to say at all r 1

' Prisoner: Well, I want to ask you to consider the treatment I have been under. Of-course, I know. I brought it on myself, but it- drove mo mad, and I didn't know what I was doing when.l struck the.,warder. - I've . .had-.: a ,:big spell of bread and water, sir. I have learned since that it is better for a man to go along quietly and try to please the authorities. • Mr. Poynton, in answer to the Magistrate, said Logan's last punishment .was 30 days' confinement in irons. Mr. Cuttcn, ,in delivering .his judgment, saifl' ho would take -into consideration; the fact. that. the...prisoner had had a period of bread and.water, and also the-fact that he-said-he was going to settlo- down for tho futuro and behave, himself," aijd, irtlverefqro,. he would rvot JimpOse .tipon!; hinf, ;a 'punishpiont that would come upon him immediately; r Qn the other hand., the facts of tho, caiyj, could ( not be He would be 'sentenced to lose 'hkfldrsufficient to affect three months'.., remission of the original sentence/.'-' -\4