HATRY IN PRISON

Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1931, Page 6

HATRY IN PRISON

WORKING AS BOOKBINDER

HOPES FOR A REMISSION

Interesting sidelights on Clarence Hatryks life in Maidstone Prison have been revealed to the “News of the World.” They show that he is homed up by the belief that lie will obtain a remission of hi.s 14 years’ sentence through the clemency of a future Home Secretary.

When a fellow-prisoner commiserated with Ha try on the severity meted out to him, the ex-finaneier exclaimed : “Yes, it is awful, awful -a lifetime if I have to do it all: hut T feel sure I shall be released before 10.1 years.” It was in January last that Hairy and liis associates in the big London frauds were sentenced !t.v Air Justice Avory, at the Old Bailey, to the following terms 'of penal servitude: Clarence Charles Ha try, 14 years; Edmund Daniels, 7 years: John Graham Goodfellow Dixon 5 years: Albert Edward Tabor, 3 years.

The companies with which the quartet were concerned were known as “the Hatry group,” and the convicts are spoken of among their fellowprisoners at Alaidstone as the “ITatry group.” All four are in the block of cells on the ground floor, Dixon and Daniels- being next-door neighbours, while Hatry and Tabor are on the opposite side, about a dozen cells apart. Tabor and Dixon were the first to arrive, at the prison, and they had been in the prison only a fortnight, when they iwe re recalled to London on business matters. fn about- a month they returned to Alaidfitono, accompanied bv Hatrv and Daniels.

Tabor and Dixon resumed work as compositors in t-lie printing shop, to which Hatry and Daniels were transferred after they had -spent a few days on probation in tlie tailoring department, where they learned to stitch. Daniels was placed upon a printing machine, and Hatry could have had a similar task, but be preferred the sewing table. His work consisted of sewing together books ready for bindimr. and now be performs the simpler operation of -bindimr. linvirig a large pot if glue at bis side and the necessary tools snread around him. Daniels. Dixon and Tabor have joined a drill and games sound, in lieu of doing afternoon exercise, and thev mingle with other -prisoners in games of rounders. Daniels and Dixin have captained opposing teams, and they enter with real zest into the recreation. Tahor and Dixon have been enrolled in the prison chapel choir, having some pretensions to musical ahilitv. Hatrv is studying the Spanish language. He reads as luanv hooks as he w permitted to oet from the well-stocked 1 vbra.rv. and this winter he wiR r 'p rwnilotred to listen to wireless talks and ioin in the discussion on them.