Dunedin Gaol Inquiry.
[PKB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, This Day. , The Dunedin Gaol Inquiry was continued to-day. McKelvey, who had been discharged from the wardership because orders had been given to reduce the staff, Hg gave unfavorable evidence as to the management of the gaol. He had .seen . warders drunk - He stated that a prisoner, Rogers, who afterwards died, was lifted out of bed on to a concrete floor to hare. -. a clean shirt put on. All the time theman ws screaming ont that he. was riot.; scheming, but was dying;. He had reported about warders being drunk, but.it was two years after he, left the.gaol,' ' The'in-. was adjourned till Monday.'
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 9, 30 June 1883, Page 2
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