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was taken, he was confined in the stocks and chained to a post. The same facts are reiterated by numerous other witnesses. The room in which the apprentices were punished by being handcuffed, put in the stocks, and chained by the neck to a post, is described by the fol lowing witnesses. THOMAS MuMFORD, the second constable, says "the lock-up place is the hospital in which is the stocks." J A M E S D A N I E L , the head constable,—"knows of several instances of the apprentices being placed in . the stocks by order of Mr. D U N D A S S , and chained to a post in the place of confinement. It is a close place but not so dark."' F R E D E R I C K K R A M M A , a German, emploj^ed as a mechanic, and occasionally as a book-keeper, on Mo lynes, states " that the windows in the hospital were built up and loop-holes made, and that the fire-place has been lately closed, in consequence of a female ap prentice making her escape up the chimney. J A M E S D E N N I S O N , the book-keeper, deposes ; " the hospital was closed up before I came to Molynes ; what were formerly the windows, have been converted into loop-holes; it is in fact a dark room. Heard Mr. D U N D A S S Jlog the stable boys last Sunday, because they left the grass piece open. Has never seen him Jiog any hut the house
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himself handed in a written statement to the magistrates, in which he asserts, the iron collars were rivetted on the necks of the apprentices, by order of the Special Magistrates ; that W I L L I A M L A K E was confined in the stocks and chained to a post for se curity, till Captain BROWNSON should visit the pro perty, and try him as a runaway ; that JOHN CUMSO DUNDASS