BESTIAL TREATMENT OF WAR PRISONER
Received Fridav, 8 p.m. BOMF, Aug. 30. A military court hearing torture and murder charges against two Germans aiul 10 1 talians, iiicluding two woinen, listened to the prosecutor 's storv of tio eud of a " gallant Kngiishnian ' Tlu. R.A.F. sergeant was captured in Xort.li ern Italy and taken to Gerinan liea-1 quarters wliere iuquisitors, inceused at his silence. wliipped and burned him witli red liot irons. Ile was bestially | tortured by a woman. Ile was thrown into the River Ro laslied to a stone. He dragged hintself from the river am. again met his torturers who shot him and threw liiin into a garhage cellar | He was buried two days later.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 August 1946, Page 5
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