Within Prison Walls

Within Prison Walls - being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison...
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Author: Osborne, Thomas Mott,1859-1926
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Language: English
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Within Prison Walls

Within Prison Walls

€6,33

Within Prison Walls

€6,33
Author: Osborne, Thomas Mott,1859-1926
Format: eBook
Language: English

Within Prison Walls - being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York

Many years back, in my early boyhood, I was taken through Auburn Prison. It has always been the main object of interest in our town, and I was a small sized unit in a party of sightseers. No incident of childhood made a more vivid impression upon me. The dark, scowling faces bent over their tasks; the hideous striped clothing, which carried with it an unexplainable sense of shame; the ugly close cropped heads and shaven faces; the horrible sinuous lines of outcast humanity crawling along in the dreadful lockstep; the whole thing aroused such terror in my imagination that I never recovered from the painful impression. All the nightmares and evil dreams of my childhood centered about the figure of an escaped convict. He chased me along dark streets, where I was unable to run fast or cry aloud; he peeked through windows at me as I lay in bed, even after the shades had been[Pg 2] pinned close to escape his evil eye; as I ascended a flight of stairs in dreamland and looked back, he would come creeping through an open door, holding a long knife in his hand, while my mother all unconscious of danger sat reading under the shaded library lamp; he was a visitor frequent enough to make night hideous for a time, and it was many long years before he took a departure which I trust is final. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 33255
Author: Osborne, Thomas Mott
Release Date: Jul 25, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English

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