CONVICT LEASING.
CABLE NEWS.
United Press A.ssoci ition -By Electric Telegraph Copyright.
HOkRJBLE TALES FROM ALABAMA.
CONVICTS SOLD LIKE MULES. Received July 28, 8.35 a.m. NEW YORK, July 27. The Legislative Investigation Committee sitting in Alabama elicited remarkable evidence respecting the State convict leasing system practised in the Southern States. It was shown thac on one State prison farm the convicts were lined up and sold like mules to the highest bidder. One convict was leased out in exchange for seven negroes because be possessed clerical ability. A white boy who was leased out was whipped to death for spilling coffee on a hog.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9154, 29 July 1908, Page 5
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104CONVICT LEASING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9154, 29 July 1908, Page 5
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