A SOCIALIST IN GAOL.
HIS OPINIONS OF SAME. Christchurch, June 6. Mr T. R. Cooke, Socialist orator, who was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment with hard labour for the non-payment of a fine imposed for a breach of the city by-law prohibiting public meetings being held in Cathedral Square, was released to-day. Referring to his prison experiences, he expressed the opinion that Lyttelton Gaol gives a man no possible chance of reform. It is a place for crime, imbecility and degeneracy. It would break a man’s constitution up very quickly, and would shake his reason. If a man goes in a criminal he will come out worse than when he went in. Mr Cooke adds that as far as Lyttelton Gaol is concerned, the reform effected by last session’s Act is infinitesimal. He intends going to prison in regard to a further fine imposed on him for another breach of the same by-law.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1015, 8 July 1911, Page 3
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153A SOCIALIST IN GAOL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1015, 8 July 1911, Page 3
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