CHAINS AGAIN WANTED FOR PRISONERS
♦ — NEW YORK, July 18. A grand jury at Brunswick, Georgia investigating the disturbance ai Anguilla prison camp in whicli eight negro convicts were killed recommended that Georgia reintroduee leg chains and striped suits f>r prisoners which were abolished in 1943 The jury exonerated Warden H. G Worthy who shot and wounded a prisoner and the guards who followeil this by a fusillade from rifles anu shotguns which killed five prisonei> outright and wounded iive, three ot whom later died. The jury held that the men were attempting to escape anc that Worthy was not drunk as alleged by the prisoners' leader. The Nationdi Association for the Advancement ot Coloured People, has asked the Federal Department of Juslice for an inquiry.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 July 1947, Page 5
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125CHAINS AGAIN WANTED FOR PRISONERS Chronicle (Levin), 21 July 1947, Page 5
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