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...usual reward of sound, unspectacular workmanship- has gathered behind Mary Johnston's sombre study of the 18th Century slave trade. The tale is David Scott's, told in his own burred words. A young Scotch Jacobite, he fell in with the dark traffic upon escaping from penal indenture in Virginia. The evils of that traffic, the crime of the hideous Middle Passage, bore heavy on his Scotch conscience...
...grim figure of the Public Prosecutor Krylenco arose to demand the life of the prisoner. This demand was quickly granted, but, out of consideration for the advanced age of the "revolutionary traitor" the death sentence was commuted to ten years' penal servitude...
...guillotine, where men are sent to a known death and soon lose at hope" such is the penal colony of Cayenne, according to Colonel C. W. Furlong, speaking at the Union last night on "The Wild River Lands of the Guianas...
Will Tell of Penal Reform...
...lecture tonight is on a topic that brought him into prominence before the war, when one of his articles describing life in the Penal Colony in French Guiana gained notice from the French government and led to agitation for reform of the terrible conditions which he said existed there. The war halted these attempts at reform, but now they have been resumed and may lead to the abolition of the colony. Colonel Furlong will tell of a trip, by cattle boat from Trinidad to the penal colony. On this trip, he stopped at Demarara, in British Guiana, and thence continued...