to sit with his cell door
unlocked, and to go to the stove when he chose, and, to all appearance,
properly cared for him, giving reason for much commendation. True, he
was shortly to leave prison, and his statement would go towards
counteracting the reports of prison cruelty circulating outside, and
some were uncharitable enough to contend that this was the object of the
better treatment.

One evening, about this time, I found a prisoner in his cell appearing
as though he could live but a few hours, and perhaps minutes, unless
immediately attended to. He had been in the hospital a number of weeks
with a lung difficulty and, though he had not recovered, was
transferred sometime that day, I think, to his cell,--to a colder
atmosphere. Here, he found it difficult to speak or breathe. I hastened
to the warden for him to attend to the matter. He hurried for the
physician, who soon arrived, and had the sufferer returned to the
hospital, where he died some weeks after. This was one of my only three
requests or suggestions that were granted or favorably attended to by
the warden while I was under him. True, I was not denied many times, for
I early learned not to propose anything or make any request, except when
absolutely needed.

This changed course in the warden, however, did not continue many weeks.
That hearing and its acquittal had passed, and the Sylver affair was
dying away, when, at length, I thus found him returned to his former
spirit. Though early in the season, on a warm day, he had divested the
sick of their flannels, and I suppose all other prisoners. Soon the
weather became cooler, and I found a sick man in the hospital suffering
greatly for want of his flannels, which articles, as he asserted, he had
not previously been without, summer or winter, for twenty years. He was
trembling with the cold, which much enhanced his distress. Going to the
warden, I presented the case, and received the reply, "If he wants his
flannels, let him ask the doctor." He could meddle in the matter enough
to divest the man of the needed articles, but would not move to put them
on, and thus mitigate his sufferings. It was then early in the
afternoon, and the man would have to suffer till the next forenoon, the
usual time for the doctor to make his visit. When he came, as I was
informed, he lectured them severely for removing the flannels at all.

33. _The fate of Henry Stewart and others._ Henry was said to have been
exceedingl