CONVICTS HANGED BY THUMBS IN ALABAMA.
, Moved by evidence of InrrMlhle brutality J to convicts leased to a naral store comcompany, (Joveruor O'Neal has cancelled the , contract. The company has been working j a large number of convicts nt Its plant nt l Atmore, Alabama. Reports of cruelty became so frequent , that Governor O'Neal orderel an investiqnti«i?. The evidence showed that scores of convicts hail boeu whippul until their I bodies were bruised nn.l tbat salt water had been thrown on the wounds. •, Hanplng convicts up by He thumbs was ' a common practise. . Park Apes." said Governor O'Neal in cau- . felling the lease.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 22 November 1913, Page 17
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103CONVICTS HANGED BY THUMBS IN ALABAMA. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 22 November 1913, Page 17
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