FATE OF CONVICTS
FOUR HUNGER STRIKERS FOUND DEAD DECLARATION BY CORONER IN PHILADELPHIA. MEN SCALDED TO DEATH. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. PHILADELPHIA, August 23. A five-day hunger-strike in. the county prison against what was declared to be monotonous food ended when four convicts were found dead in their isolation cells today. Superintendent William Mills announced that the men committed suicide, but the coroner said that there were mysterious circumstances surrounding their deaths. Their bodies were black and blue and the skin had been burnt off in places. Mills said that these men were the trouble-makers. The other hungerstrikers succumbed gradually to an aroma of roast beef which was circulated throughout the prison, but the four men who died hung on doggedly. Mills denied that rubber hoses, live steam and tear gas were used. He added that possibly the men were killed while fighting among themselves. The coroner later declared that the men had been scalded to death. Two State investigations are opening today.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1938, Page 5
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163FATE OF CONVICTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1938, Page 5
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