SENTENCES REMITTED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 281, 22 July 1932, Page 3

SENTENCES REMITTED

ELEVEN CONVICTS OBTAIN FREEDOM FROM DARTMOOR. Eleven men, smartly dressed and groomed, each carrying an attach'e case, swaggered along a Devonshire country lane whistling, humming, and singing, early on the morning of May 26, with Dartmoor prison fading step by step from sight. Trese men were ex-conviets who h'ad received special remission of their sentences for their timely assistance to the officials during the prison disturbance in January last. In spite of the . early hour of the morning a crowd h'ad gathered at the main prison gates, but the authorities, app-arently deeming it wiser that no demonstration should take place, had arranged for the men to leave the prison by a back door. Only one prison official escorted the eompany to the local station, where they took train to Y'elverton. There the party was divided, some going to London, one to Brighton, and others to Wales and the north. Each' man was provided with a railway voucher and 2s to spend on the journey. "There are many men who remained loyal, but who are dissatisfied because they have not been rewarded," said one the released men. One of the men took with him two pet mice whieh be had caught in the fields and trained in his cell. He had taught them how to climh ladders.