[5] I can vouch for the accuracy of this measurement which I verified myself when Millbank was still standing. [6] The account of this experience I have ventured to extract from my work “Fifty Years of Public Service.” (Cassell & Co.) [7] “Stiffs” are letters written clandestinely by prisoners to one another on any scrap of paper they can find. [8] The “hopper” is a contrivance for preventing the inmate of a cell from looking out of the window. It is a board resting on the window ledge at a slant, rising to a height above the window, the sides filled in with other boards. [9] This model prison was that built at Pentonville, under the active supervision of Colonel Jebb, R. E., and a board of commissioners specially appointed by the Secretary of State. The first stone was laid in April, 1840, and it was occupied by prisoners in December, 1842. [10] The Eighth Report of the Inspector of Prisons. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: —Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History and Romance of Crime, Millbank Penitentiary, by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths