CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHAPTER I. "MY ARREST."

CHAPTER II. THE HOUSE OF DETENTION.

CHAPTER III. "SETTLING DOWN."

CHAPTER IV. "PRISON FARE."

CHAPTER V. GEORGINA.

CHAPTER VI. BOW STREET.

CHAPTER VII. NEWGATE.

CHAPTER VIII. THE SCAFFOLD.

CHAPTER IX. A PRIVATE EXECUTION.

CHAPTER X. "NEWGATE ETIQUETTE."

CHAPTER XI. THE TITLED CONVICT.

CHAPTER XII. THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

CHAPTER XIII. "CORPULENCY."

CHAPTER XIV. COLDBATH FIELDS.

CHAPTER XV. "OAKUM" LET US SING.

CHAPTER XVI. THE VISITING JUSTICES.

CHAPTER XVII. PRISON TRADES.

CHAPTER XVIII. "THE OUTER WORLD."

CHAPTER XIX. "THE CONVALESCENT WARD."

CHAPTER XX. CRIMINAL LUNATICS.

CHAPTER XXI. PRISON CELEBRITIES.

CHAPTER XXII. THE TREAD-WHEEL.

CHAPTER XXIII. GARDENING.

CHAPTER XXIV. THE CHURCH MILITANT IN PRISON.

CHAPTER XXV THE HOSPITAL DEAD-HOUSE.

CHAPTER XXVI. BURGLARS "I HAVE MET."

CHAPTER XXVII. "JUSTICE TEMPERED WITH MERCY."

CHAPTER XXVIII. A RETROSPECT.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler

Crowd scene—Horse-drawn Prison Van

EIGHTEEN MONTHS’
IMPRISONMENT

(WITH A REMISSION)

BY
D—  S—

LATE CAPTAIN — REGT.

ILLUSTRATED BY WALLIS MACKAY

LONDON

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS
Broadway, Ludgate Hill

NEW YORK: 9 LAFAYETTE PLACE

1883

LONDON
BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.