DARTMOOR VICTIM

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 33, 8 August 1933, Page 7

DARTMOOR VICTIM

The British Treasury has made a grant of £50 to the wife of John Lewis, tho Dartmoor warder, who Was seriously'injured in, the course of the mutiny in January, 1932. She is to receive it at the rate eft; 18s a- week. John Lewis, who is in a mental liursing homo near Plymouth, was injured by a rock thrown by a . convict, who took part in the riot.. Though desperately hurt, ho remained on duty for three weeks and then collapsed from delayed concussion. Mrs. Lewis was allowed 30s a week compensation for a while, but this was stopped suddenly just before Christmas. Then, iii January, her pension of 16s 6d a week was suspended, leaving her penniless. Since then she has lived . with her parents at Plymouth. Tho new 18s allowance is made from a ''compassionate fund" at the disposal of the Treasury. Mrs. Lewis is bearing her troubles with great resignation, but tho tragedy has turned her hair white. Recently, she had to pay £16 for an operation. She has paid ■more than £40 in specialists' fees, and it is costing her between two and thrco guineas a week to keep her husband at the mental home. It had been hoped by Mrs. Lewis that tlie authorities would put her husband in a Government hospital and allow her the pension to which ho would have been entitled in a. few years when he was due to retiro, lie hnd eighteen, years' service. I