Excerpt from Uncle John, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel The criminal is punished in order to deter others from crime. It would be well if before the eyes of every man who is tempted to sin against his brother, could pass a scene like that which I shall attempt to describe, as enacted in a grim and impregnable modern fortress, called Middleton Gaol. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.