STORY OF TORTURE
♦ A stoiv told to the Now Yoik police recently by a Trench sailor of having been hold prisoner for four weeks and toituicd with burning cigaiettcs lod to a laid being mode, which tho authon tics bohevd to have resulted in the cap tuie of the ringleader ot a poweiful international drug ring. The sailoi, whoso name is Rosen, wasia membei ot thd crew of the French iincr Champlain. He told the police that ho was met at arrival at Now York lately by a man named Salvatoro Mancuso, who asked him what had happened to a package containing £1000 worth of heroin which was concealed in one of tho ship's ventilatois Rosen had tin own it overboard, but stated that ho had sold it. "Rosen was immediately seized and dlagged to a house -whore ho w is bound hand and foot, while lighted cigiicttcs weic applied to Ins foip head, wrists, and the soles of his feet to make him i.ible to his mfp it llavic asking lici to send money, l^entinllj, Mtiucuso lclcased him.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 115, 12 November 1934, Page 16
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179STORY OF TORTURE Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 115, 12 November 1934, Page 16
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