SUICIDES IN PRISON.
TWO LIFE-SENTENCE CONVICTS.. By Telwraph—Prem Aeßncn»Mon-Oop:»riKM London, December 13. Sidney Bunyan, and Harry Southcliff, undergoing life sentences for murder, committed suicido in the cells at Maidstone. Bunyan was sentenced on September 13, 1909, and Southcliff in November, 1907. The prisoners worked in the tinsmith's shop at the prison, and while employed there, made and secreted a crude knife. Both left farewell messages, Bunyan blaming the Home Secretary because he gave no hope of their future release.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1625, 17 December 1912, Page 7
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79SUICIDES IN PRISON. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1625, 17 December 1912, Page 7
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