If detected a second time, they are sentenced to a month's imprisonment, and hard labour at the mangle.
The most refractory are condemned to cold meat for life, without benefit of pickles.
The heartless ringleader is loaded with irons.
A member of the Royal Family only saves himself with a fine of twelve dozen bright pokers, and an Exchequer bond for one hundred steel fenders!
But human patience can endure it no longer, and the poor convicts endeavour to elude the vigilance of the watch, by smuggling themselves out amongst the clean linen.
The secret, however, is accidentally divulged by a criminal of great weight, who drops through the fragile clothes-basket.