Show BURTON AND CUNNINGHAM the DYllnluitOl8 Will Live the Uov iScniniuilci of Their Lives Iu JnSl t Chatham prison is composed of several I wln < r3f each much m the shape of the II I Toombs Each wing is surrounded by its own walls Burton was put in one i wing Cunningham in another Doubt esB hey will never seo each other again II istho officials arc careful to separate I each wing has it palS while its own ex i d r cround One thousand two him u dred and C odd convicts are their neighbors at t present Each was assigned to a cell on the third tier The second is assigned to probationary graduates after nine months solitary service and the ground I tier to the coarser and more vicious kind of convicts e Each tier of cells is about seven feet wuaro and eight high with clean I whitewashed walls ana boarded floor I y the end under a window through I which a flood of light was streaming was I It bedstead of wooden plank about eight I inches from the floor a pillow of the fame material about three inches higher A rug covers the plank and plank pillow Another rug is the top covering Tho chair resembles a butchers chopping block fastened by iron staples to the floor to prevent the prisoners from knocking the warders down with it The table a piece of wood projecting from the wall about a foot and a half square completes com-pletes the furniture of the cell Each cell has a small magnifying glass in the rii nnvurwl on the outside with a nlnsn for the V use of the sentinel or visiting warder Their diet is equal to that given to the steerage passengers any of the transatlantic steamers Three meals a dnio1 breakfast a basin of gruel and eight ounces of prisonbaked broad for supper a basin of cocoa and eleven ounces of bread The dinner is really a substantial meal varied every day with stewed beef or mutton suet pudding potatoes and soup twice a week and in addition five ounces of bread each day The rules of the prison aro terribly strict The deputy governor said that he could not specifically say how tho two dvnainitards bora their first two days confinement but during the next nine months they will see no one but the I warder nor talk with any one but the doctor it ill nor hear any voice except that of the chaplain or of Rev W Alton the prison Catholic priest During this time meals will bo brought to them They have been Pet to pick oakum and are allowed to receive no letters nor rating materials newspapers or books and until next Iarch Burton and Cunningham Cun-ningham will have no company but their own thoughts regrets and possible hopes Alter this period they will be changed to a lower tier and smaller beds because they will then be put to outer work uLle their cells become their bad rooms ci doubtless if refractory they will bal cle ba-l navvies digging and wheeling at docks When probation is ended lacan have after five in the evening to fj > clock books of the prison library rl Ji i are excellent When the days aro ft a small gasjet is provided within fccell over a table Your correspondent med that although prisoners of state nld he treated precisely as short term viets guilty of the usual statutory tees Burton and Cunningham will ably always remain in Chatham ATI |