Show ow wild ta izi prison concerning oscar wildes life ta in prison the forthcoming bookman will say so many ny conflicting accounts of th prison life of G oscar scar NN wilde and of his condition have been published that we feel bound to set forth a v statement mt ement of the actual facts fact our informant being an english official whose position has made him personally cognizant of them from this source we learn that mr wildes physical state is very distressing he is unable to assimilate food and an enteric disorder which ch hm has become chronic has reduced him to a condition of great weakness he ise is governed by the silent system and this is rigidly enforced so much so that he has several times been punished for half involuntarily turning his head in chapel to get a glimpse of the person seated beside him we were inquisitive enough to ask the nature of his punishment on these occasions ad were told that it consisted of having his rug taken from him the rug in question is a strip of rag mg carpet which serves as a substitute for a mattress being spread upon the surface of a deal door which te is his wa bed so that when under punishment he sleeps upon the bare planks alf tlc gentleman who made these statements statement is persuaded that wilde will lose either eithel his life or lits his reason as the result of his punishment but bat he probably un der rates the extent of human endurance the sentence under the english system of commutation has only finx months more to run and it is generally understood that at its expiration mrs wilde will rejoin her husband new york journal |