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Title: Six Years in the Prisons of England

Author: A Merchant - Anonymous

Editor: Frank Henderson

Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21284]

Language: English

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SIX YEARS

IN THE

PRISONS OF ENGLAND.

BY

A MERCHANT.

EDITED BY FRANK HENDERSON.

REPRINTED FROM "THE TEMPLE BAR MAGAZINE."

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

1869.

TO A
KIND AND DEVOTED BROTHER,
WHO CHEERED ME WITH WORDS OF
CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY AND BROTHERLY LOVE
DURING THE
DARKEST AND MOST DESOLATE HOURS
OF MY
PAST UNHAPPY CAREER,
THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY
THE AUTHOR.

Transcriber's Note: In this text the use of an underline (_) indicates
italics, an equal sign (=) indicates a word in bold type, and a caret
(^) indicates that the following letters are superscripted. Also,
British pounds are shown as _l._ rather than the fancy L.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

1.--My Commercial Antecedents--How I got into Prison 1

2.--My Feelings on First Entering a Prison--Treatment and
Employment before Trial--My Trial and Sentence 10

3.--Three Months in a Scottish Prison--Begin my Study of the
Convict and his Surroundings--An Old Jail Bird--A Soldier--An
Innocent Convict--My First Cracksman Acquaintance--Conspiracy
to Murder an Officer, and Escape--My Removal to England 21

4.--My Arrival at the Yorkshire Prison--In Simpliciter
Naturalibus--Get Animal Food--Medical Treatment--Statuesque
Christianity--Removed to the Hospital--Death of a Prisoner--My
Leg gets Much Worse--Removal to Surrey Prison 34

5.--Surrey Prison--Daily Routine of Hospital Life--Set a Thief
to Catch a Thief--My Leg gets Worse--Amputation--Life Despaired
of--Prison Doc