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Griffiths Arthur. German and Austrian Prisons
German and Austrian Prisons
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. PRINCIPAL PRISONS
CHAPTER II. FRIEDRICH VON DER TRENCK AT MAGDEBURG
CHAPTER III. NOTORIOUS POISONERS
CHAPTER IV. THREE CELEBRATED CASES
CHAPTER V. CLEVER IMPOSTORS AND SWINDLERS
CHAPTER VI. TYPICAL MURDERERS
CHAPTER VII. THE STORY OF A VAGRANT
CHAPTER VIII. SOME REMARKABLE PRISONERS
CHAPTER IX. SILVIO PELLICO AT SPIELBERG
CHAPTER X. BRIGANDAGE AND CRIME IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
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Arthur Griffiths
Prisons of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Austria-Hungary; the Fortresses of Magdeburg and Spielberg
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“Religious exercises were strictly observed at Celle. The chapel was constructed on the well-known plan of providing separate boxes like lairs for each individual. All turned towards the altar which was adorned with a copy of Guido’s crucifixion. The services were given well and on a regular date there was a church ‘visitation day’ when a high dignitary preached a stirring discourse, with no other effect than that of starting a controversy among his prison congregation as to whether his cross was of gold or silver. Other subjects formed the staple conversation. One was always deeply interesting, the news that corporal punishment had been ordered and that a prisoner was to be strapped to the block.”
Hans Leuss animadverts strongly upon the discipline at Celle and quotes several cases from official reports in which much cruelty was exercised. One was of a man well advanced in years, who suffered from misdirected acquisitiveness and frequently found himself in gaol, where he constantly misconducted himself and was punished by long committals to the dark cell. In the end his health gave way, but the trouble was not diagnosed and he was very harshly treated. One morning he declared he was unable to leave his bed, but he was nevertheless dragged up and into the exercising yard where he was unable to walk and fell to the ground. The governor, believing the illness was feigned, would have flogged him but was reluctant to order corporal punishment for so old a man, and had him put into the straight-jacket. Then the doctor interposed, being in grave doubt as to his mental condition, and took him into the hospital for observation, and he died that same afternoon, of senile decay. It is horrible to think that the coercion of this poor old creature was carried so far that he was nearly flogged, and that he was actually confined in a straight-jacket so short a time before his death.
