has just ended at Dartmoor. David Grifin, who died the other day in the Prison there at the ago of fty-six years has enjoyed freedom for eighteen months Tonly since he was nine years of age. Nearly forty-six years he spent in prison. He was convicted thirty-four times, usually for burglary, and has seen the inside of every English prison. The last time he was out of prison, some three years ago, he boasted with great pride that he invented and brought to perfection the system of silent talking among convicts, which the authorities have in vain tempted to put down. He admitted, when arrested for his last burglary, that all its details were planned with' two other prisoners while in jail by this system.
L.A.
16th May.
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