COULD NOT SLEEP IN GAOL.
,PRISONER'S; PROTEST. .
• (By . Telegraph.—Special Corresnondent.) ' ; Auckland, February 22. At the Police Court this morning, a rigorous complaint touching' the condition • of tlio remand cells' at MountEdraVaj entered by a man .who. came before Mr, ■Kettle.' .This man said, that the iiella' Vhich wooden ones of the : old prison, are: infested \vith - vermin. ,110 added:"Two 1 other men who will come before your ..Worship . to-morrow , \will: tell you y the; same ;; thing.;.; I speak for; : others. ; . Que ;.of , the , men I speak* of has-.been in gaol for - sia ' days, and ' has had no sleep, for the whole of that 'I 'am. not-ex-aggerating. Those cells lire infested with : thousands of bugs,' and,- last- night,: I had to walk; about- all night. I did not get a wink of sleep." Mr. Kettle: stated in. reply that lie had spoken to the visiting.Justices about th«'matter, but these complaints were still being made. Ho would, telegraph to the Minister for. Justice on the: subject today. , . , ■ -i..... '. ■
Mr. Poynton, the gaoler/' has already given his explanation in. reply, to a complaint made a few weeks ago by another prisoner. He says that tlie'- conaplaititi' are altogether without foundation,' and that the cells aio clean. -
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 749, 23 February 1910, Page 4
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