Dunedin Gaol Enquiry.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 182, 9 July 1883, Page 2

Dunedin Gaol Enquiry.

NICE DisCLOStritES.

L B * TBLEGRAPH. J (UNITED raH SB ASSOCIATION.) Thor , . -^NEDIN, July 6. prisoners other thmlv „"""? "T gaoler', gettm, Cor £n« *' T^il ? In^' beoa »»e I won't say what heard the prisoner sobbm* m n. . J mm g n aP v m f *? ° a P tain HHe,u *c, Ceventn had seen Captain Hume, they we- « xeant M'Nanma. He knew there was said-About two years a ? o I remember a prisoner named John Smith throwinc hisbooo at Warder M'Catton, who thereupon rushed at Smith and knocked am down with his clenched fist ffe struck bmith several times on the head? ing there fora conple of miaates heard the prisoner being dragged along the yard. Sergeant M'Namara had hold w S Priß^» Who alm <>sfc naked. Warder M'Oacton was sbriking him abooc the naked parts of the body A more disgraceful scene I hare never witnessed. Again, m August last year 1 T* l l^- d^J- Warder Clark reported to Pnncpal Warder M'Namara thatpnsonerWilsonwasbehavinghimself m a very disorderly manner. * M Ta. mara, Norman and myself vis it e dlhe cell. We found Wilson standing i Q a most defiant attitude ; his bedeck was ripped open, and everything m the cell was m disorder. Principal Warder M'Namara rushed m at the prisoner and threw him down. He the a dragged the prisoner out of the cell, and struck him on the head with his open hand; the cell was cleaned out, and the nril soner was put back again. I reDorted the circumstance m the usual way, bub I never heard anything further o! the matter. I, on one occasion reported Sevgt. Watson for drunkenness, and an enquiry was held. Half-an-hour after the enquiry was held. Oapt. Fraser called me m and said that I had not been able to prove „ my case; that the Government had considered the advisability of reducing the staff, and I would be on the list for dismissal. Prisoner Pearce,a weak, diminutive man, was expected to do as much manual labour as strong robust men, who, perhaps, had been accustomed to the work all the days of their life, I have known prisoners to appeal to Segt. Duncan iv the most . piteous manner with their handa covered with blisters. Hew^W tell them that he '.was -not a doctor, mt they would hare to do the work for^ which they were- sentenced, and : reminded them that Saturday was cominir round. ; • • .-;*&