Show A criminal paradise spain s criminal settlement in the Zafar lna islands Is said to be quite a paradise of convicts their liberty Is restricted only so far that they must not leave the islands and must return at night to prison unless they obtain leave of absence tor the night at 6 clock in the morning the convict I 1 leave the prison some do a little work but the majority go straight to the various wine shops and hostle rles where they pass the day drinking singing and occasionally breaking the monotony of life with a little knifing for each respectable prisoner car ries his taca knife day and night with him this idyllic state of ahinga appears less strange if one considers that the prison warders the capa tares are the liquor sellers of the islands and that a good deal of illicit trading Is carried on in those places of resort the prisoners buying vers ammunition housebreakers tools and similar articles chicago |