Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — THEY CANNOT GET AWAY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THEY CANNOT GET AWAY.

How Mongolian Prisoners Are Kept in Durance Vile. Ever since men have bean impi’isoned for their crimes they have plotted to escape, and their captors have had to devise ways to prevent their foiling justice. This is how the Chinese have overcome the difficulty. It is hard enough for one to escape from prison, but two prisoners find their path even more difficult and with their heads thrust through this transformed stock it is impossible. To be put into one of

these contrivances renders one as helpless as though he were a Siamese twin trying to work independently of his brother. The Russians, who, with their convict settlements In Siberia, have the problem of keeping prisoners constantly before them, chain their convicts to wheelbarrows or planks and, thus hobbled, the unfortunate men have little chance of running off to the forests, as they like to do. If they do escape they spend the summer in the woods happily, and when cold weather comes give themselves up at nearest penal settlement.

A CHINESE METHOD.