ESCAPED PRISONERS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3045, 21 January 1892, Page 2

ESCAPED PRISONERS.

COMPLAINTS AS TO TBBATMENT. FOOD UNFIT TO LIVE ON. (by telegraph—puess association.)

Invercaugill, Last Night. At the Police Court, Middleton and McGuira the two Milford escaped prisoners weredeu.lt with. Both pleaded guilty. Midd.le.ton made a statement that the food at Milford was unlii for men to live on; tha potatoes were r.;tton v the meat stinking and the flour bad. No medical comforts were supplied and ouo prisoner lay unconscious in a whaie for ten days without medicine, where ho died. The men were unable to move him and the sandflies sucked his blood away. The eight was ;> sickening one. The gaoler pooh-poohed the idea that he was ill and said that nothing was the matter with him. Ho left because he thought the same treatment would be met«d to him. McGuire made no statement. Serjeant McDonnell read a long list of previous convictions against Middleton for larcany, burglary, horee stealing, escaping from prison, and the Bench said Middletor.'s complaint ought to have been made to the visiting justices at Milford wliun an inquiry would have been held. Middleton had a long record of crime and they sentenced him to two years' penal servitude. McGuire who stood in a more favourable light got one year. Both sentences are cumulative on the present ones. ____________