HUNGRY PRISONERS.
No one has yet made it a reproach to the Dunedin Gaol, says a Dunedin paper, that the prisoners are starved ; hot at Auckland such appears to have been the fact. The persons arrested for the jewel robbery on board the Wellington were remanded on several days, and at length they are reported to have made a “ bitter complaint to the Resident Magistrate that every day they had to attend at the Police Court starvation was their lot. They left the gaol before breakfast time, and got back after tea time. The gaoler said the police should feed them m the interval; the police said they had no authority to do so ; so between the two, the unfortunate “ suspects” went foodless to bed. The day they complained His Worship at once ordered them a good square meal, and made it his business to see that future attendance at his Court did not rob them of their victuals.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3025, 7 December 1882, Page 3
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159HUNGRY PRISONERS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3025, 7 December 1882, Page 3
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