AT LARGE AFTER SENTENCE OF DEATH.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 105, 7 May 1894, Page 4

AT LARGE AFTER SENTENCE OF DEATH.

It will surprise not a few peoplo to know that there aro nearly threo dozen people now at largo, and following various commendable occupations, after being eoutenced to iloath, subsequently repiiovcd, and then sent to peual servitudo for life. It is obviously unadvisablo to Kivo exact uamcß and localities in regard to thoso unhappy people, but thin at least may bo said, that after their long incarceration—the period ib generally twenty years—they are are not bo much broken in spirit and health as many peopla might suppose ; but this is acoounted for m a men.uro by the faot that, ovoa amid their terrible surroundings, thoy gather something of consolation in the thought, of their escapo at least from tho scaffold and the hangman. In the Lambeth ai.trict of London ther,o lives tho managers of a business, who, ovor twenty years ago, in hot blood, committed a torriblo murder *. and, strango to say, not a mile from her resides another woman, now tlio wifo of a prosperous tradesman, with whom sho went to school as a girl, who was sentenced to death. Then, still Bpeaking of women, thoremay bo seen walking about Soho in the daytime a I'rench-woman who committed a murder which mado tho whole of Europe ring. All tho men aro following respectublo occupations, save such as aro sup. ' ported by their relatives. It is a fact worthy of record that nearly all roprievod murderers are tho bott conducted prison. 01 3 in a convict settlement.