THIRTY-SIX YEARS IN PRISON.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11103, 23 October 1901, Page 7

THIRTY-SIX YEARS IN PRISON.

|t . While the meeting in the Dossers' Chapel J^- , ' of the Salvation Army "was in progress in ||' /Xondon on a recent Sunday morning, a C , ttan in the audience haccted up to the platjJL form the following note, which must sorely %' be unique:—''Gentlemen,—Since 1867 I g£ have served tit© followinsy terms of imj^; , priscaunent (the dfttes iodicate when I re- .')-, ceiv«d the sentences): In 1857, four years ii in rfiort terms; in 1861, two years in a \t,- refonmitory: in 1864, three years' penal V ' ■wvitude;' in 1867, eight years' ditto; in 1877, twelve yean' ditto; in 1887, eeven

years' ditto; making a total of tbirty-s:: j I years and three months, not counting re \ mands and waiting for trial, which must have amounted to other nine months. I am fifty-eight years of age, and no trade, Truly, Solomon struck the right nail on the head when he said, 'The way of transgressors is hard'! If you con do anything for mc I shall be truly grateful. I would do any sort of work you like'to give mc. Beggars can't be choosers." The Salvation Arniy never turns a deaf ear to any appeal of the kind, and the applicant is now in the Prison Gate Home.