Friday 28 August 2015

Page 195 of "Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix || Rough Translation.

This is just a rough translation of page 195 of "Horrorstor" by Grady Hendrix in the paperback US edition published by "Quirk". If I have got anything wrong here, feel free to comment and I will fix the mistakes.
(it's not a different language, it's just written in very hard to read handwriting, pictured below)

Penitents of the Cuyahoga Panopticon.
Under the care and treatment of: Warden Josiah Worth.
September
1831.

Number: 00314.
Name: Harold Ashes.
Offense: Vagabonding and barratry.
Sentence: 3 years  4 years.
Treatment: His degenerate aspect and sallow features caused me to assign to him seven hours on the Tread Wheel each day. His sickly aspect increases but I suspect him of malingering. Nothing is so certain as that the evils of illness can be shaken off by hard work.

Number: 00315.
Name: Leon Bultg (?).
Offense: Consorting with low women and public inebriation.
Sentence: 2 years  3 years 4 years.
Treatment: A daily dose of Mercury has calmed him greatly. Those who sow no seeds reap (possibly seek) no reward.

Number: 00316
Name: Osborne Goldberg.
Offense: Threatening behaviour.
Sentence: 3 years.
Treatment: This sallow fellow seems to be quite ill, suffering from the lunacy and bearing all the physical signs of degeneracy. We have prescribed to him the Iron Cap to be worn at all times, and when he becomes agitated, a few hours on the rotational board  encourages him to swoon and purge himself of vile fluids. Amid an eternal heritage of sorrow and suffering and work begins (?).

Number: 00317.
Name: Matthew Sweagen (?).
Offense: Petty larceny with partial verdict.
Sentence: 4 years  5 years.
Treatment: Sentenced to workhouse where his abusive temperament required (?) him to be remanded into my case. Prescribed ten thousand turns of the crank each day. Notice that flesh of his hands has begun to slough off and become full of pus. For his health, we have removed his thumbs. He has now returned to the crank.

I hope you find this helpful. The original copy of this page is pictured below: 


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