HATRY TO-DAY

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4731, 10 August 1935, Page 8

HATRY TO-DAY

EARNS EIGHTPENCE A WEEK. The British Prison Commissioners' scheme to pay convicts for their work has now been instituted at Maidstone Gaol. Preliminary experiments were carried out at Wakefield Prison. They were so successful that the commissioners decided to continue with the plan. They found that the convicts worked with greater will, and a better output was obtained, says the News-Chronicle. The governor of Maidstone Gaol, Major Ben Grew, received instructions to go ahead with the operation of the scheme. It was decided make payment to those convicts who had served over two years of their sentences. Among the convicts in the prison now being paid under the scheme are Clarence Hatry, Francis Lorang, exLieutenant Norman Baillie-Stewart, and ex-Lieutenant Austin Duffield. Neither Leopold Harris nor any of the fire-raising gangs in the gaol are yet eligible for payment. Leopold Harris will start earning between" threepence and . sixpence a week in a few months' time, when he will have concluded two years of his fourteen-year sentence. As a labourer (he pushes wheelbarrow loads of bricks to and from the prison building yard.) Clarence Hatry during a recent week earned the sum of eightpence. Hatry, who controlled millions of pounds, who in 1923 lost £750,000 on one deal alone, who negotiated fifty deals involving £30,000,000, who owned racehorses and lived in a palatial Mayfair home, is the richest man in Maidstone Gaol. By having served five years of his sentence, he is entitled to 2s 6d a month, as well as his weekly Bd. Austin Duffield was reprieved in 1927. He shot his colonel at Gibraltar. He is serving a life sentence at Maidstone. Duffield is earning less than 6d a week. Baillie-Stewart, the "Officer in the Tower," has now a salary of a few pence a week for work in the prison printing shed.