A CONVICT'S PENANCE.
TEN YEARS ON BREAD AND TEA. A diet of unbuffered bread and tea, adopted ten years ago by a prisoner in the death-house at Sing Sing, has beer continued ever since with his continued refusal to partake of other food offered at tho prison, even on special occasions. Warden Lewis E. Lawes disclosed that the diet had been adopted voluntarily as a "penance" before execution of a*death sentence and had been continued after the sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment. The prisoner, Joseph Jaworsky. 'ill years old, has been in the prison since 1921. Ho had been sentenced to death j for a murder at Findlay Lake. Chautauqua County, N.Y., where he had worked as a farm hand. After spending more than a year in the deatli-liouse. during which he became religious. Ins sentence was commuted by (\o\ ei 1101 Nathan AH""". The j :! the strict diet he had adopted as penance and to show appreciation for the action of the Governor. • 1
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 135, 9 June 1932, Page 15
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167A CONVICT'S PENANCE. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 135, 9 June 1932, Page 15
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