dfully beaten, and having his arm broken. It appears that constable
Baldock was taking a man to gaol, charged with either having or using a
towel irregularly. He threw his shirt to Lemon, and asked him to get it
washed. Baldock would not allow him (Lemon) to have it. Upon this the
man Lemon gave Baldock either a blow or, as he says, a push, when a
number of constables fell upon him and beat him with their clubs. It was
just as divine service was commencing yesterday evening. All the
officers and constables left the church, except Mr. Duncan, and the "old
hands" made a general rush towards the windows to see what was going on.
Mr. Bott told me he interfered to cause the constables to desist after
the man was down, but Baldock said "lay it into him--lay it into him."
While down he was handcuffed with his hands behind him; after this he
was taken to gaol and gagged two hours, with his hands chained behind
him to the lamp post, having all this time his arm broken! He was then
taken to the new gaol, and Stephens sent for the doctor who received him
into hospital.

_April 16 (Friday)._--Had a long chat with Dytton. He was chained down
to the floor by Mr. ---- order, and had been gagged. I asked the reason:
he said for getting up to the window to get some air in the hospital
cell, as the doctor had ordered him to have air and he was refused out.
He has been ill at the general hospital--had six or seven weeks'
sickness--has never been well since a beating he received while I was
absent from the island. He was then in the chain-gang. Some pegs had
been removed upon which he hung his clothes and rations. He abused the
gaoler for removing the pegs; was gagged and taken to the new gaol, and
chained down; was then dreadfully beaten by six or seven constables. He
lay in a puddle of blood. The next day a constable came in and jumped
upon him, and severely hurt his chest: he pierced his body with a piece
of sharp iron or steel. He showed me a scar on his arm he had received
on that occasion. He said Mr. Elliot came to the cell and found him in
that mutilated condition, and asked ---- when it was done. ---- replied,
"he received a portion yesterday and a portion to-day."

_August 6, 1847._--Visited the gaol. Found Waters strapped down on
suspicion of having prevented his eye from recovering. His back was bad,
having been flogged, and the cord which laced the straitwaistcoat which
they put on him pained him much. His eye was very bad. He