BANE DIRECTORS’ LIFE IN PRISON.

Kumara Times, Issue 840, 10 June 1879, Page 4

BANE DIRECTORS’ LIFE IN PRISON.

[GLASGOW HERALD.] Since their removal to Ayr Prison, the City of Glasgow Bank directors have experienced much the same routine as when confined in Duke-street Prison. On Sunday, Innes Wright, Taylor, and Stewart attended divine service in the prison, which was conducted by Mr Duncan the chaplain. The service, which commences at 915 a.m., and terminates about 10, is conducted in the corridor of the west or main wing of the prison. The prisoners are not, as in Glasgow, separated from one another at service. Portable forms are ranged along the corridor, each of whicn is capable of seating four persons ; the male prisoners are accommodated on one side of the corridor, and the females (excluded from the view of the males )on the other, while the chaplain stands on a platform in the centre. Although seated close to one another, the prisoners are strictly prohibited from speaking a single word to their neighbors. On Sunday upwards of 120 prisoners attended the service. All of them, of course, wore the prison dress, and, except by the governor and warders, the bank directors were uorecogniseable. Inglisand Salmond, who are still confined to the “hospital,” although somewhat improved ia health, did not attend the service. The “ hospital ”is a moderately sized room with a fire in it. Since their removal here, Inglis and Salmond have been the only occupants of it, but in the event of any of the other inmates of the establishment being ordered to the “ hospital,” the privacy of the two gentlemen will be at an end. The directors are confined in the west wing of the prison. The three directors who are not in “hospital ” appear to be in good health. Their fare is exactly the same as - the other prisoners, and they have never - asked anything in the shape of a favor ; fjom any of the warders.