CONVICTS TORTURED
TERRiBLE STORY OF ATROCITIES IN GEORGIA The revelations of Spanish inquisition tortures inflicted legally on chain gang convicts in the Southern States is contained in a book "Georgia Nigger," by John L. Spivalc. Photographs were secretly talcen showing convicts broken on the rack and hanging unconscious in stocks such as those used 300 years ago. Others were chained by iron collars avound the neclc like Roman galley slaves, or weighted with 20 lb leg spikes, reminiscent of Siberian prisons. Sonne of the convicts were caged lilce wild beasts, and poignant letters plead "in mercy's name for help." The author makes the charge that these conditions prevail in Georgia and also in the entire southern black belt, where white and coloured prisoncrs work together. A former Georgia Governor, Mr. Dorsey, states: "It seems we stand indicted as a people before the world. If these conditions continue man and God with justly • condemn Georgia more severely than they condemned Belgium and King Leopold for the Congo atroeities." Reform organisations are planning to make the conditions a national issue and are seeking Congressional investigation.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 364, 27 October 1932, Page 2
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183CONVICTS TORTURED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 364, 27 October 1932, Page 2
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