COMIC OPERA PRISON.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9141, 9 May 1908, Page 7

COMIC OPERA PRISON.

OONYICTS ALLOWED TO GO OUT FOR A WALK. Geneva, March 11. Another convict lias “escaped” from the prison of TJiorberg, in the canton of Berne, bringing np the total to ten daring "as many months. The convict, named Euckiger, aged thirty years, was undergoing a long sentence for forgery when he left. None of the ten convicts has been re-captnred, but one who was unable to find employment, returned to the prison recently of his own accord. At a recent enquiry into the methods employed in the Thorberg prison “to reclaim the prisoners” .a Gilbertian state affairs was discovered to exist. The warders, it was found, often took the convicts for|a walk to the village of Wasen, nearby, where all entered the cafes, played” bowls and cards, and each man ordered his drinks, the prisoners often “treating” their warders. In this penal paradise the well-behaved prisoners were permitted now and then to visit Wasea alone [fin the afternoon and return to prison at night. The Thorberg prison has become the laughing-stock of the country.