YET CRIME GOES ON.
HORRORS OF FRENCH PENAL SYSTEM. CAGES AND OUBLIETTES OF CONVICT SHIP. STEAM HOSES TO QUELL OUTBREAKS. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Times Cable.) (Received This Day, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 18. The Paris correspondent of the Times states that the convict ship La Martinife has sailed for Cayenne with 673 prisoners, including 60 murderers, one of whom is aged 16. Comments in the French Press leave no doubt that few of the prisoners will ever see France again. The men ■will be herded below decks in groups of 70 in iron cages. Insubordination is punishable by confinement in a narrow cell, which is entirely dark, with th e prisoner’s wrists and ankles chained. A “bad animal” stays there until he is cured. The captain is alleged to have stated that when a man comes out he is a human rag. The vessel is equipped with steam hoses for quelling dangerous outbreaks.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 February 1931, Page 5
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