Salt Lake Herald | 1890-08-03 | Page 1 | In a Turkish Prison

IN A TURKISH PRISON USI A London Daily News Correspondent Gains Admission toOne LONDON Aug 2A special correspondent correspon-dent of the Daily News has succeeded in obtaining ob-taining admission to the Turkish prison at Uskub Macedonia The building contained 149 cells and was occupied by 1811 prisoners or ove twelve to a cell The unfortunate victims are sent there t bo confined from one to ten years each but so great are their s from the barbarity of the keepers sufferings disregard for sanitary laws that one rarely outlives five years In one cell two and a half yards square the correspondent discovered dis-covered nearly a score of poor wretches panting for air and starving for food hav ing in the way of the late nothing but bread and water The greater number were stark naked and chained by tho ankles and wrists There werealso underground cells reserved for the worst prisoners in order to force confessions xvhere wanted It is also customary to chain men all day in the scorching sun in sqch a way that they cannot move i