The prisoner above named is a full-blooded Spaniard, thirty-eight years of age, married, and has one child, three months old.

"Oh, as to that, ma'am, you know a soldier's life is hard, and a prisoner's is a good deal harder.

Out of pure deviltry, it would appear, Voltaire started the story, as mere a fiction as one of his written romances, that the mysterious prisoner was no less than a half-brother of Louis XIV; and Dumas, seeing the dramatic possibilities of the legend, picturesquely elaborates it in Le Vicomte de Bragelonne.

The reader will at once have anticipated that the prisoners were Maso and his companions, who had been more successful in escaping from their keepers, than fortunate in evading the attempts to secure their persons a second time.

The prisoners taken from November 28 to December 10 were: 76 officers, 1717 other rankstotal, 1793.

To "Kiboko" a prisoner of war and an Indian soldier is a flagrant offence against the laws of war.

You are probably aware that the prisoner is a notorious criminal, guilty of one proved murder, and several cases of forgery, card-sharping, and the like.

He denied that the prisoner was Jackson Dowd Andrews, or that he had ever been in Vienna.

You will, I am sure, make allowances, lieutenant, when I tell you that your prisoner of last night was a very dear friend of my daughter's.

These prisoners are all infantrymen, judging by their uniforms.

In other words, conditions inside the jail were quite similar to those then prevailing outside, except that the prisoners got polished rice which was given them with the best intentions in the world, and was by them considered a superior article of food.

"The prisoner, as I told you before, was English in every feature.

The prisoners were father, mother, and son, and the deceased was a poor servant girl who had been engaged to be married to another son of the male prisoner and his wife.

The prosecutor stated, that he resided in the Commercial Road, and is by business a tailor; the prisoner had been his apprentice for four months, up to the 28th of August, when he committed the robbery.

He had already made up his mind, after that one good look at the other's face, the prisoner of the barrel trap was a pretty "slick article," as Steve would have expressed it.

News of his intention being brought to To-pee-nee-bee and Kee-po-tah, under whose care the prisoners were, they held a private council with Chandonnai, Mr. Kinzie, and the principal men of the village, the result of which was a determination to send Captain and Mrs. Heald to the island of Mackinac, and deliver them up to the British.

Two prisoners is a considerable exploit for savages to achieve.

One of the witnesses, a negro belonging to the same estate, was asked"Do you know the prisoner to be an obeah-man?""Ees, massa, shadow-catcher, true.

Every prisoner should be the subject of attention, not of spying, but of friendly interest that would inspire confidence and trust,such an interest as a wise doctor has in a patient.

The prisoner was sixty years of age.

" "I understand, then," pursued Anstey, "that you consider the thumb-print, which has been sworn to as the prisoner's, to be a forgery?"

It was as if the prisoners were dumb wild beasts.

"It has been admitted that the prisoner was a party to a proposal to break into Riversbrook.

Another notable prisoner was Hubert de Burgh, who escaped and flew to St. John's Church for sanctuary; his gaolers recaptured him at the altar, but soon afterwards gave him liberty on being threatened with the wrath of the Church.

[Footnote 1: The prisoners were Crosby, the Lord Mayor, and Oliver, one of the aldermen, both members of Parliament.