The Prisoner Holt.
E. B. Holb, of the Bank of Now Zealand notoriety, who continues an inmate of Darlinghurst Gaol, is stated to be in a really exceeding^ bad state of health. In appearance he is so much changed as to be hardly rccoguisablo by persons who saw him on the morning sentence was passed on him in the Central Criminal Court, and his" nervous system appears to be completely shattered. He is employed at clerical woik in the gaol hospital, andis allowed liberal medical comforts, bnfc notwithstanding he loses flesh, and is now but the shadow of his former self. Sin.cc his arrival in Sydney he has been kept under the mosb careful surveillances and the opinion of the prison official* ijS that there is no malingering in his casg. Holfc is most roticcnt, and converses \yith no one unless it is absolutely unavailable, At night time he is extremely waking with the slightest noise vftade by any of tho companions in misforii\\no \yho occupy the sam.Q ward with him,,
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 207, 18 June 1887, Page 4
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171The Prisoner Holt. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 207, 18 June 1887, Page 4
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