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Show MANY PRISONERS AT POST. Unusual Condition. Exists on Governor's Gover-nor's Island. NEW YORK, April 22. Army prisoners pris-oners now exceed by more than 100 the soldiers "bTi duty at the post on Governor's Gov-ernor's Island. Many of those confined are merely under sentence for desertion Military prisoneis from all posts In the Department of the East are confined con-fined in Castle Williams. Lately the prison of the Department of the Lakes at Chicago became so crowded that many western prisoners have been sent here. This accounts for the curious state of nfiairs noted. In all, there arc 332 prisoners. Tho garrison, which consists of one battalion battal-ion of tho Eighth infantry, numbers about 220 men, exclusive of commissioned commis-sioned officers. The battalion, however, has been on the island a long time, and the number of prisoners who havi escaped es-caped since It relieved the artillery garrison gar-rison has been the smallest In the history his-tory of the prison. |