PRISON TORTURES
TWO GUARDS ARRESTED IN PHILADELPHIA FOLLOWING ON DEATHS OF CONVICTS. HOMICIDE CHARGES LAID. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Copyright. PHILADELPHIA, August 25. Two prison guards from the county jail have been arrested in connection with the deaths of four prisoners following a hunger-strike. The guards are charged with homicide. A message received yesterday stated that investigators sent to the county prison following the discovery of four convicts dead in their cells described conditions in the isolation block as being like the Black Hole of Calcutta. They believed that the convicts were confined behind steel doors. The windows were closed,. the water turned off and radiators heated to the limit so that the men died slowly from the intense heat and suffocation. Nineteen other convicts were admitted to hospital nearly dead.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1938, Page 5
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130PRISON TORTURES Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1938, Page 5
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