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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15411, 29 July 1914, Page 6

ilorbidify-mongering " may not have been thought of by the authorities who caused old Dar--1 in " hurst gaol to be thrown open last week io the Sydney public. The gaol has been abandoned as a place of punishment, and will bo demolished soon to make room for a school. Morbidity possessed the visitors who crowded on to the gallows trap-door till it threatened to collapse, but some must have felt healthier sensations in reflecting on the progress which the spirit of humaiiitarianism has made, even in comparatively recent times. The history of "old Darlinghursi." now recalled, seems to belong in ihe dark ages of Europe rather than a new coun- v try and the nineteenth century. Opened in 1841, and intended to exemplify ihe most advanced ideas of prison management, it soon became a den of horrible iniquities. Children of tender years