CONVICT SHIP
.SAILS WITH 673 PRISONERS[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received 10.25 a.ra ) LONDON, February 18. The "Times” Paris correspondent states:—The Convict Ship, La Martinifi, sailed for Cayennr wth 673 prisoners including sixty murderers, one of whom was aged sixteen. Comments of the French press leave no doubt whether few will ever see France again. The men will be herded below decks in groups of seventy in iron cages. Insubordination is punishable by confinement in a narrow cell entirely dark with wrists and ankles chained. The ‘‘Bad Animal” stays there until cured the captain allegedly stated. When a man comes out he is a human rag. The vessel is equipped with steam hoses for quelling dangerous outbreaks.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1931, Page 5
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117CONVICT SHIP Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1931, Page 5
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