Governor of Pentonville to be Asked for an Explanation The governor of Pentonville will be asked by the wife of an imprisoned man for an explanation of one of the strangest gaol blunders of recent times, states the "Daily Express."
Recently the thirty-four-year-wife of ex-Colonel James Christie, who is serving a sentence of twelve months for fraud, wrote to the governor for information about his re-Tease.
Instead of the reply she expected Mrs. Christie was sent the criminal record and full particulars of another prisoner, serving six months' hard labour for stealing.
Ex-Colonel Christie will be liberate ed in a few weeks. The date given on the document for the other prisoner's release is about three months later. (There is no similarity in the Mrs. Christie lives in a large house in Hampstead; the other prisoner's record shows that at the time he was convicted he had no fixed abode and that he was an Army reservist.
Mrs. Christie is going to see the governor to-day. She is distressed that the information she asked about her husband may have been sent to somebody else.
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