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gaiety theatre pictubes. fl TO-NIGHT. BOSTON BLACKIE. The Fox production, ‘'Boston Blackie," starring William Russell, which will be shown this evening, was adapted from the story by Jack Boyle, “The Water Cross.” It deals with the punishment of prisoners by a method as torturous as any of the refinements used during the Spanish inquisition. The water cross advocates tied a man upright against a wall with arms outspread and then turned a high pressure hose against his midsection. This treatment the tissues under the prisoner’s flesh and disabled him for weeks, if not permanently. Just such inhuman handling of men has caused the searchlight of the press to be thrown on the cruelties still in practice In various prisons. Each community has its own penal problem to solve. After an unusually exciting series of adventures Boston Blackie effects a prisoj reform that argues a convincing brief for humanitarian methods in American prisons.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4684, 7 April 1924, Page 2
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153ENTERTAINMENTS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4684, 7 April 1924, Page 2
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