Sections 1 Elsie Howey and I waited together at the Bridewell Police Station for the greater part of… 2 It was our turn at last. 3 These were like cupboards, without ceiling, giving on to the hall for light and air, so that… 4 The next day was Sunday (January 16), but they did not ask us to go to chapel. 5 The strain was great of having to put on my shoes, which were too small, every time I was… 6 Presently an officer came and led me out. 7 Tuesday, January 18, I was visited again by the Senior Medical Officer, who asked me how… 8 He said if I resisted so much with my teeth, he would have to feed me through the nose. 9 When the doctor had gone out of the cell, I lay quite helpless. 10 The next day, Wednesday, January 19, they brought me clean clothes. 11 I had not been long in the other cell before the doctor and four or five wardresses appeared. 12 The Governor came in for a moment to see me. 13 When it was evening the light was lit and the doctor and wardresses came again to feed me. 14 I lay facing the window, which was high up, and very little light seemed to come from it. 15 From the third feeding, when the junior doctor had felt my heart on Wednesday evening, the… 16 I got down and put the table and chair in their place; I felt amazed, having seen a sight as… 17 After, I think, the sixth meal, I complained to the doctor that the processes of digestion… 18 Most of my friends had been fed by the doctor standing at the back of the patient, whereas… 19 I had been told that the Visiting Magistrates were due to come to the prison on Friday… 20 In the afternoon the wardress came to let me go out. 21 Soon afterwards, when summoned before the Magistrates in the Governor’s room, I was allowed,… 22 When back in my cell, the Governor presently visited me. 23 It was on the afternoon of this day, Friday, that the door of my cell was suddenly thrown… 24 I assumed, too, that he had done the same in the case of Elsie Howey as in mine, omitted to… 25 On Sunday morning, January 23, the cold was intense.
Start Learning Elsie Howey and I waited together at the Bridewell Police Station for the greater part of that day (Saturday, January 15). Towards evening they took us away in a partition van, alone, to Walton Green Gaol, we arrived…
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