CONVICTS’ DEATHS
PRISON OFFICIALS IMPLICATED. [B\ CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.J PHILADELPHIA, September 2. The coroner’s jury has ordered the superintendent, the deputy warden, the guard captain, two physicians, and nine guards to be held for the grand jury following the deaths of four convicts in the country prison on August 24. A five-day hunger strike in the Philadelphia county prison in protest against what was declared to be monotonous food ended when four convicts were found dead in the isolation cells on August 23. The superintendent, Mr. William Mills, announced that the men committed suicide, but the Coroner said there were mysterious circumstances surrounding their deaths. The bodies were black and blue with the skin burnt off in places. Relatives who viewed the bodies of the dead convicts stated that violence to a shocking degree preceded death.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1938, Page 7
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