“What is the use of putting men in prison for forgery and theft and breaches of the peace? They don’t enjoy themselves there and they are a great expense for me to feed and guard; yet if I were to let them go they would only start their career of crime again. I’ll visit the prisons to-day and look into the matter.” He did. He weeded out the men whom he considered the most hardened criminals, and had them executed. Their bodies were cut up and used as meat for the wild beasts waiting to be killed in the amphitheatre: which made it a double economy.
