PRISONER'S PLEA.
'NOT A NICE BOY BUT A MAN.
LONDON, May 12.
"I do not claim to be a nice boy or a good prisoner, but I do claim to be a man. I was afraid that I might later be accused of being a 'loyal prisoner, faithful to thin porridge and a plan* bed" said the convict Jackson, during a 29-minutes speech in his own defence at the Princetown Assizes, where the Dartmoor riot charges are being heard.
He declared that his present imprisonment was due to sheer vindictive malice on the part of the police, who, after periurin" themselves to secure his conviction, persecuted him in prison. A lio-lit glared over his head all nio-ht and he underwent torture in Wandsworth and Pentonville prisons, where he was tricked into abandoning an appeal for a reduction of his eentold that suicidal pendencies nrecluded an appeal. The warder Roberts, he said, drove him to frenzy. «I was stunned," he said, "to think that I would serve 10 years for the possession of a defective pistol.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 116, 18 May 1932, Page 7
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