Mr. Stead's Imprisonment.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1662, 19 March 1886, Page 2

Mr . Stead 's Imprisonment.

| " ! t>uriWg ! tlie ! terhi of his : i<nprts6 r nmetft I Mr Stead appears tp ; have thoroughly j enjoyed* himself j arid m his l&tters to L the : Pall Mall" Budget speaks of ■ Holloway Gao.ltby,th6uaine;of '^HDpoy^oHoway 1 ' ; jW^h. tli,e, exception .of, his. firati tbr.ee! days iri Ooldbath; ; in-,the r Field he was \ treated as a fi.r.Bt-craßj»inisdemeauant/had ■fiis ' 'pa'pers're'gularly 1 - •'biSfdte ' breakfast, ! edited the Pall MalP'GWzette i;J fr6ra '■% gaol, saw numerous visitors, and itffact | had a gay time— in -fact so gay that he .coimnitied: *h^. : uinbfeairdTO^atrpcity .'of j whistling m gaol. .£», ,^as constantly; receiving letters commiserating with i hun. and te ; ling jifm tpkeeD-his spirits! up,;whereas lie^ was " less- troubled 'than \ the writers v/ere. " "H is own, words as! to prison life*' at ; e:f-'A f Uo ) |*!trfer I catij best slim up Jrty estimate of the "punish-' inent" inflicted on a first-class misdemeanant at HoJtpjjfAY^y;/Baying that if: ever I am m |[^%^^^aßk a guerdon' from my country' |oj^%y profession, ij will humbly petition tqe powers that be! to permit any eaitbj^jb^ a daily news-! paper to converi^raSelf into a first- 7 , class misdemeanant at will, fqr terms-of [ one^two, «fttbje> monthff.ff Tlift/ is 1 tfoihmg likel)eTng m gM for getting: rid of bor^s.ancl getting on iwit^i vrork , j and I &m'ript*sure that If a small volun-i tarygaol were : started by a 'limited liahijittf epinpaqy to.b.e •'' rjoif. onifirstrcUtsV; misdemeanant principles, and managed! would hot pay a handsome dividend. ■It'wo^ldVcertainly be' an' incalculable 1 bbp.ri ; WW ' worried i I ' l i w /' 'J A '"' i ij ;;:■';.■:■'!() mdmimmmmmimmmimmmiiLm OJ W :<■;■?■ ■