Show ld Prison Pl Place of f Horror HOI remains of Century Old Australian Penal Settlement Bring Vividly to Mind 1 the Long Story of Mans Man's Inhumanity to Man lan Short of ot hanging banishment to toI toran I Diemen's Land Tasmania was worst penalty Inflicted Indicted on offend a century ago The six farm tarm of ot sentenced for tor In a trade union whose was commemorated by the union congress this tills August sent there Mr Stanley Unwin the publIsher nd Mr Severn hit h hive he e a remains of ot this dread penal set at Port Arthur In Tasman s Near a peaceful beach by gigantic gum trees they In Two Young Men See the they found the ruins of the and prison with Its exercise exercIsE- pitch black silent cell for tor who raved and long trl cages Each ach man was let loose In a cage himself for an hour or so BO a day which timo time he be could neither nor mal mat e a signs to the man In Inie next nest cage cige to him without earnIng punishment Here he clanked p and down up and down In n his Irons that tore the skin sLIn from ankles and u wrists more unhappy ioor wretch WI etch than the wildest of or wild 1 I For one n min who had hind the strength a gorilla and doubled up on bars In his Isis grip a special ell cell been built for tor another a special and house because the horrors the chain larks banns an s had bad driven him and no one dared go near him Is record recorded ell that sometimes when o prisoners were confined together drew lots to decide who should the other and be hanged It Across tha small bay was another Point where juvenile were housed housell Adjacent was steep ro rock k overhanging o a lagoon Suicide Cliff use because here lads used to throw themselves es to Amid the ruins of ot Port fort Ar are the t ivy Ivi clad wills walls of ot a once church which one of the designed buying hIs hig tree free for tor work wort that Is superb even In Ina ruined blany daring and antl ghastly attempts escape ope were made but hut once the prIsoners hid contrived ed to elude theIr u would be captors and gaIned the mainland of ot Tasmania It meant certaIn death from starvation In the Impenetrable bush or murder and cannibalism among their own ranks It f there were several In their party Only n a few rew months before the visit ot of Mr Unwin and Mr a wood woodman woodman woodman man had made a gruesome discovery ery on the densely wooded slopes elopes ot of Mount Arthur n Arthur a human hum skeleton with tho the broken Iron fetters still clinging to arm bone and leg bone Beside It In a straight row lay the buttons that had adorned the con convict I vista viet a s clothes In those bygone days ot of harsh tongue and cruel lash vI dently this man had bad escaped con contrived contrived i by almost superhuman efforts to break his fetters and struggled on until he collapsed and died i iThe The penitentiary Itself was a huge building of or two floors doors where some of the convicts con worked If a com convict rebelled his Irons were made m heavier his meager diet was reduced his Isis term of solitary confine confine- confinement confinement confinement ment prolonged or he would be put putto putto putto to grind cayenne the pepper pepper the worst task tash of ot all Some convicts became warders and these pro proved ell the most brutal of ot all We look loot back In won wonder wonder wonder der the tu two 0 tr remark at the callous Inhumanity of ot those days |