PRIVATE LONSDALE.
HIS LIFE IN PRISON. Private William Lonsdale, the ex-Leedi 1 tramcar conductor, wbt> was sentenced to death for having struck one of his guards : ■while a prisoner at Doeberitz camp,'; in | Germany, has written a letter to his wife | in Leeds, from which it appears tost his 1 sentence has been reduced to one of IS years' imprisonment. j ' c ~ [ m Lonsdale writes from Spand&n, and! is apparently quite cheerful. "My IS I Tears," he says, " will soon pass away.; Only another 770 Sundays—not many.}".! I only count the Sundays. I have no time 1 to trouble about the week —too busy 3 working. Kiss my children for me, and | never let them know that their father is | such a bad man that he is doing 15 years for striking a- man a blow in self-de-fence." . | Referring to the fact that he has not 1 received parcels of food sent to him, ho - ! says he supposes that he never wiD,_ as ft he is in prison now, which means punish-', ment and no privileges. "There art_V plenty cf parcels floating about /or me 5, somewhere. lam not allowed to have §£ them, but am compelled to live on tits V staff, prison swill, or starve. Ah, well, never mind, it is only for 15 years. >>e* If long when you say it sharp." •_ I
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16020, 11 September 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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