Show onn WHAT LYNCH JUMPED INTO 1 I WT I Tho O Coat ol of Fooling OO With th this British U Lion 5 I ul ulI J With OIB commutation of at loath death sn Mn I or t Col COI Arthur Arlhur of treason In Jn ondon J for tOl haYing served with the against in has h come a n 1 of at the Ihl terrible merle u uthe ot of the rigors ot of prison life Ilfe particularly In hi Hi Ih prisons whore of at I tend nd Irish high agitator have been lIeen I are arc that Col eoJ Lynch will willo ho o taken to Parkhurst Isle of at Wight from the tho union prison where he ht ii has hag been beat since Bince his hl hi arrest With the th cows cases of at Dr Galla Whitehead and other victims of oC efforts to ron con In Ireland sUII still fresh freh In their memory many ninny of ot Col Lynch IlIch In tills this country mo tiro to tie tho the Immunity of ot the tho sentence en ten eft condemn him to u II like Ilke Ilk experience rather thin then to what they would term In InC comparison C a II merciful martyrdom Time The of oC routine prison life lito ore nrc awful even to the common COlli man criminal whose sensibilities are not tin nil tina nila asa a rule ruin highly developed Hut But to a Ii pris prisoner oner Known to bo ho hostile to tho the gov lov government particularly nn an confinement In Portland tall e Mount MoUlt Joy or pile pris prisons oils ons additional horrors limo Tho rill civilizing process awaits him hum He lie must bu be b taught to respect the pow power power Jaw Jawer er he ho IB is supposed to have havu defied dellel and mind humiliating subservience or the eternal Quiet of ot It n prison graveyard aro the In Inevitable evitable ends union Indeed he comes come out with reason shattered a n lunatic at tie In III the anno easo of oC or ora orn ora a n physical wreck like Ur Dr Jr Gallagher Should Col Lynch serve only a l tew few years yearn In ono one of the tho English 1 prisons It will ho he If It It Iff is II to 10 be measured by tho the past Imst experiences of oC prison tep up to Iwo its Indelible stump on Oil his hla life liCe It IB in n prospect toll lull of ot goom and horror to the tho least leant Ia t sensitive en ro To a man mall manof mallof of avowed antagonism political amid racial t I to England Ingland friends trl of at the tho Irish muse elitist my euY It means physical ell I or um r mental annihilation In the ordinary course rouno of at rou routine routine tine Col Lynch will wilt spend u II preliminary ary nry period of sumo nino month In Penton yule This is III H the mildest period of at Ills hili imprisonment There ho change his clothing tor for the prison garb merges his Ills identity Into Inlo a II number and mind miters enters upon n routine the tho very WIY regularity of ot which must bo be bl maddening but Lut In which thoro there thoroIs therele Is le no na deviation Ills work ork will be Le picking oakum Or Orte he hI te must meet bind hind so 80 many hammocks or turn a Ii crank crunk so go many times turns of at the tw crank constitute n 1 days dayH work for tor torn forn n a hard labor man A dial registers the number of oC turns mode matlo during the tho day Tho rho crank IB is more Idiotic and use UI useless useless less even than thin thu treadmill which does doon generate n it power passer that can enn be bo mind and la III utilized to grind corn or for or similar purposes rhO The prisoners routine nt at may be summarized nu as follows G 6 a n in rn Arise clean cull cell and work on dally task until until t 8 S a m of or bread and stir about 9 a n in Chapel and amI one hours walk walking walkIng walking ing exercise During this thin he must wall wallIn In n a given gen direction mind and at nt the ruto of at four Cou mules miles an nn hour no more no loss lens 1020 n in Hack to his hili dally task treadmill tr or crank crunk 1230 m Dinner of at bread brent about suet pudding and on certain days polo or soup BOUP I 1 I p ID Work again until supper tJ III e eG G C G p m Supper of broad and gruel Then work until his hIe days clays task tank of at so turns turn of ot the crank Is la concluded I p II m Light out The Tho III prisoner mu must t undergo ro this dally daily routine for tor f Or nine nino months Then Than Ills his real reul sentence the real 1001 horror He Ile Is taken to Portland This name nnnie has hils a II terrible sound to the till hardened criminal So Su has Chatham where ODonovan Ilona underwent his hili terrible expert experience ence Ho So HI have the time other fins dim I prisons of ot England It was waA Portland that drove insane Portland that made matle maden matlen n wreck of ot Dr Gallagher mind and Portland that hat has n hint nt many an nn Irish IrMI prisoner oner to tho the little prison graveyard whoso whose Inhabitants are arc numbers and amid whose lh his history tory Is la silence At Portland the prisoner Is II Intro Intra Introduced Introduced to the quarries Illness blocks of ot stone stono are there at which he lie must hew day after niter day week after week with the prospect of at a life spent At It hewing hawing the atone stone with grim rules slung in tho the hollow of at their arms arme watching The discipline at Portland Is la extreme For the slightest Infraction of ot the regu regulations lations tho rho prisoner la is sent to lu the hole holt Here laro Is s ODonovan own description of at his experience nc In the hole hule nf ot Chatham prison the time proto prototype typo type of ot Portland I was In ht the black hole at nt Chatham ono nIght When bedtime came I 1 was wua told toli to strip and you put my underclothes outside the cell o ll I luke asked l for tor the bed t I was to get ROt for the night and was told I would have hav hR none at nil ell ella a Till s Is I said mid amid refused refusal to surrender my underclothing un I had lead bedclothes given me mime Four wardens then hen rushed Into III to my mycell m Sell cell nail threw me nO down One of 01 them d knelt knell on my neck while hn the She other otur three stripped me Then time Wt lilt the live Nil cell II While win If I l I lay y on un the I hI n cid ld 1 damp floor weak eAk bruised and anti for tor breath bl I three of at the wr war nr dens deni go to hr the end of the Warden War Warden er erden I den HIbbert rt stayed ty d at th the door of ot my mycell cell When th time other three were out Mil of the way he op opened my roll call door stepped back HIck against the corridor wall and anI then theil toward me leaped Into hf hP air and cams came rm down with both knees flat on till my chest cheat ODonovan Rosso survived these and other cruelties because he IK was wu a man manof manof of at Iron Hut when he Came out he lie h bore Jore the tha Indelible stamp of ut hit his prison exp Friend of ot Col Lynch wonder If It the rigors will willbe b be In him hll hi case call or If It he too must endure lie of ot the Eng lieh prison tem carried to the time ex tX extreme trope a as II other nth or prisoner of uC 1110 have done lIane 1 f Detroit Journal The statute of at trea treason treason treason son of oC Great treason as 81 killing to or al Ing knowledge of ot conspiracy to 10 kill or 01 Injure imprison or restrain the till ruler or the Mr helm apparent levying war against the ruler or or ns nl an all enemy enem III In the or de deI ti 11 Pm I In carrying on un War Yr 1870 1910 the punishment nl was wai barbarous In Inthe inthe the extreme The r If It a man manthe manthe I the extreme eltree The lime offender If It a man mn I was wae to be drawn on aim a II hurdle hul to the ll c I place of ot execution hanged iii dead till Ills h hood head severed and the laxly body divided Into tour four quarters If JC a woman alma he was wai to tol tobe l be burned alive RII By Hy the felony net act of ot 1810 1870 hanging ha only In Is the punish punishment ment though the crown croon may ilia substitute beheading lIeh Not Nut for more than half halt n a century lies hUll such a 1 remarkable trial l been rn held In 10 on an as that of at Col Lynch member of ot for or city The Tho trial waa u us 1111 conducted with nil all seemly student ceremony The Time judges Jude Toil Alverstone and Justices Wills Willi ills and simm appeared In III the tho unusual pan palm panoply of lat und and white while Xo No Nobody body bully was WAN allowed to outer cuter until the judges were seated Heated Theo Then the barris barns barristers tors torf In n 1 tone lung array flied filed Into their while the was hi brought ought Into the dock not the ordinary dock but n a special dock prepared for tor MO so Irn a prisoner and erected to the right of ot the th judges on an the time bench Col Lynch appeared red In III a II perfectly fitting frock Cork coat cont with a n white tie lie He lie eyed till tie assembling of at the tho court stead Ily II calmly nonchalantly Ills III black blackhair blackhair hair hall ua Willi briskly brushed up mind with lout long straight note nose and deep dark brouti he lent a Il nut not B ue to the scene Never a muscle of lit his hla face faco tJI C moved nil as Coroner Mellor react tead time the ar Ill from tram a II long lent roll an au antique looking parchment 4 The fht first count charged the time prisoner with adhering 10 to comforting and assist assistIng Ing the kings enemies the second with aiding the kings this having laving P cul reference to certain acts In the tho colony of ot Natal the third limit and fourth charged dunged the same crimes crime In relation to 10 the Orange Free l State Stale and also of ad adhering adhering hering to the burgesses Of ot that state stall while they wore were In rebellion A quaint expression In the this arraignment arraign arraignment ment Was wua that lint time the th prisoner primmer had been moved novel and seduced by the Instigation of ot the devil and stud that he had not time the tear fear of oC nod God In his hll heart The rho reading of ot this lime Indictment framed In curiously sounding old Eng 1111 n Ian tin e occupied torl over ever U I an u 1 n hour 1 Then rhen the the trial proceeded i how Colonel Lynch had fought on time the Joel hoer side the tho Irish brigade Issuing an address to Irishmen to come como to 10 time the assistance of at the tho recruiting and ntH commanding men iron to ugh fight against Britain etc elc Col Co Lynch Interesting life hogon at nt Melbourne Australia Au After Altel graduating train the university I It there In the enl engl engineering course he lie wont went to to study at Heidelberg and devoted much of ot his lima time to literature Encouraged by having a n of at poems printed In hr the magazines magazine he hue wrote end and published several hooks books mud and then than drift drifted ed lid Into 1111 journalism Lynchs two great Interests were Irish politics polities mind and duelling III In which he hail imad become an expert while at Heidelberg He Ile waa was a clever talker and allt good com company puny pany nY Newspaper men m en received r him Into Inner circles and an l a 1 large huge co 10 took look lessons In III sword practice train from him more Interested In III Irish polities politic he was wan announced as PI the candidate for tor during tho time days of at the this split spilt In the Irish parliamentary party larl but ut Will was de defeated tea ted As Au A In Purls for tor the London Dally Mull Mall II IJ he was wag al the till first newspaper man mall to meet Dreyfus on hit his return from I Devils Island Ipland The opinions opinions ions on the time Dreyfus case which he lie free tret freely ly b I exploited were Wire however hoer nt at variant variance with Ith the tho policy of at tho time Dally Daly Dall troll Mail and he wee waa w discharged He its went to South Africa nt at t the outbreak of ot the time loer war OR oa correspondent of III the London press PItH When be ire enlisted In the liner Doer ranka It was WAIl at tint looked upon Ullon ns 1111 t e roup coup of ot a clever Journalist who ho wanted to tu set eft the Ire mews n us train from rom the Inside Hut But Huth Buthe he h i resigned his hi position and 1111 rallied raised the Second Irish brigade which he kept to the front through the bloodiest battles hollies vf of the war ills His III regiment wa was literally cut CUI to tu mecca After the nar Galway accepted Lynch with open arms rm a RB as a candidate for Cor par pal parliament and Ihre wa was great teat celebration celebration tion when he was ta elected He lit lectured Ie In Prance I anil and America for the Hoer Hor cause until III il bt hs h rt returned 1 to 10 Englund June 11 1 when he ht was arrested for trea Irea treaon treason son on eon and lie he h has hui since In e been In jail jailA aa aaA A norm ly sift mm Interest 1 In the Ih i m 1 lOr d f the Ih 1 lair 1810 and perhaps pI a eti Send secret nt desire to emulate te liar her forma famous patriots ap appear ear to hula havo ha J been tits the mainspring of ot his hll actions It u wits In n a 11 spirit of f bravado that hg h hI placed d himself In III th tn way say of ot art arrest artlIch Lynch lIch und slid the 1 Irish Isiah brigade Jo took part VillI in the second nd engagement nt lit Kl which Tummy Atkins has hll i 1 an Slaughter Jn Ism telling tin story lor of that Ihal battle hatte hu hI ex ox presed l KI grat t contempt roc for the marks nt of f the tho soldiers stared h hr would rather run ran the gantlet t tat of at a whole whine British titan than of otlO io liners Mr L 1 n nh h during his career HH lie an rote s and RUl published Mo l rn Authors French Wrench German a and aud d l I II the Poor Pour hulas Quest of ofa a Ii A Koran Our Poeta Human Docu Documents mania ments S Trials for treason In Britain and Ireland have han been numerous to within a 1 half hair century After Arter thu tho pus of ot the thi statute of treasons limo tho most moat ramous famous ware Empson Jo and Dudley Fisher Fish er el i More Mol the of Surrey the Duke Dulie of ot Anne Lady Jam Orey Grey Mir Thomae Wyatt Cranmer Cranmar the tM queen fIr i cot HII Waltr Waller I l i ud Henry Vano al o and amid other Lord lorl Algernon AI i hi Ill Puke of or Monmouth mind and in the pilgrimage of oC O the thi It gunpowder popish Joe II twos lUlU other plata IIII the Ihl revolution there have been tin till rises of at those who took look part In the of ot 1715 1711 and 1741 Lord George Geor j t Gordon n In 1780 WO lardy Hardy Horn To In Kin 1794 1 the Onto Cato street a aI I tale 20 Frost Froit In iii 1840 and the Iff t n heel William Smith mem member ber lar of or parliament tor for County was waa a tried t slid and condemned to 11 ton fin an Rn attempt at Insurrection Ills His wan wall the teat last sentence to he be hanged drawn and quartered but Queen fn Victoria commuted It Il to transportation for tor life parliament pUling passing a II special Jot jet I OBrien spent six lx Ix years ears In a R Tasmania prison when W lell he his wa was pardoned mind and returned re returned 1 turned to Ireland Chicago American |