CONVICT’S CLAIM
AT DARTMOOR TRIAL
LONDON,. May 22,
“I do not claim to Be a nice boy or a good prisoner, but 1 do claim to.be a man. I was afraid that I might latei be accused of being a ‘loyal prisoner,’ faithful to thin porridge' and a plank bed,” said the convict Jackson, during a 29-minutes’ speech in his own defence at the Princetown Assizes, where the Dartmoor riot charges are being beard.
He declared that his present imprisonment was due to sheer Vindictive ,malice on the part of the police, who a'lter perjuring themselvie| | to secure his conviction, persecuted! iliiin in prison. J
Asilight glared’ over his head a 1! night, and lie underwent tortujre in Wandsworth and Pentonville prisons, where he was tridcetUdjutb abandoning an appeal for a reduction of his sentence, being told that suicidal tendencies precluded an appeal. The warder Roberts, he said, drove him to frenjft
“T was stunned,” lip said, “to think that T would serve ton years for the
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1932, Page 3
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