SHOCKING CRIME
AGAINST FORMER CONVICT, (UmtW Press Association—fly Electrin Telegraph—Copyright. , RENO, Aug. 27..; A passing motorist found Edwaild Collins, a former, convict, stripped naked and nailed io a rough ■ wooden blood-stained cross, lying on the roadside, with spikes driven in his hands,; and also one driven through .both of his feet. , The man told the police two .of Iris- former prison associates, “a Swede and a Dago,” had “'met him coming from a church meeting; that 'they compelled him at the pistol point to steal lumber strips, and to stretch upon. a. cross that they ;|, just-, like Christ,” because ,he had refused to ‘‘pull some jobs” with;.them.- .He said . they - poured kerosene ,oyerhis burned them, and - thsit they then fled. , , Collins has been taken to. hospital. He is expected to recover. ,»
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1938, Page 5
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