PRISON GUARDS CHARGED.
DEATHS OF PRISONERS
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25.
Two prison guards from the county gaol have been arrested in connection with the deaths of four prisoners following a hunger strike. The guards are charged with homicide.
A message received yesterday stated that investigators sent to the county prison following the discovery of four convicts dead in their cells described conditions in the isolation block as being like the Black Hole of Calcutta. They believed that the convicts were confined behind steel doors. The windows were closed, the water, turned off and radiators heated to the limit so that the men died slowly from the intense heat and suffocation. Nineteen other convicts were admitted to hospital nearly dead.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 229, 26 August 1938, Page 7
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118PRISON GUARDS CHARGED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 229, 26 August 1938, Page 7
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