A NOVEL GAOLER.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2974, 6 January 1881, Page 4

A NOVEL GAOLER.

Th" Geneva correspondent of the Times te Si «n extraordinary story. It appears that in the Canton Sehwytz, where manners &{•:• still simple and people unsuspecting, th-nro 33 no prison. Instead of one an old fanr;house is used, the guardianship of which id 'K'nnnaHy confidod to a gaoler and police-ru.i-i, but really to a. nun, who relies upon good treatment to detain the prisoners. As a rule she has not relied in vain, for though all kinds of criminals are detained here, and they arc allowed to go abroad at pleasure, there have been no escapes. Last week, however, a particularly bad murderer was allowed to fetch some water, and disappeared. The policeman immediately lot all the prisoners loose, tolling them to hunt fov -.Haochk-r, tiie murderer in question, vhich they did, and though they were un-Biiiro.-sL'uLuud some of them drunk, they all oamo buck again. Maechlor was not caught, arid it is probable that a true prison will be substituted for tho nun's reformatory ; but the history of her work must be worth knowing, She.appears to have been moved by a real belief that criminals could be converted, to have converted a good many, and to have brought all under some sort of disoiplino. Otherwise the neighborhood would have protested,