Drowned with a Spoon.
ex-convict Murdered by fel- ■ ■ ' low "prisoners in a vladi- '' vostocx prison. ODESSA, August 4. . . V -A'_strange stcry o,f crime comes, from v xadivoscock. : Not long ago cne cf the "exile .emi- "- "grants" was for some ordinary crime csn- . fined in the- prison of the town. He. was' kept in .a .large room wpth other pri- ' •sellers, "?.nd it was discovered that he had'been beaten, but he refused to i-ay anything about the matter. ;' ■Two.or;three days later he was found dead. ' No outward; marks of., violence \< were to be.seen,. b;it a medicnj.examrha r . ' tion showed that his stomach and lungs were absolutely inU of v/ater, ! while on, f his teeth we*;e found morsels cf cork. ■'. ' ; -It appears that the -anfertunate man ■,' had been £: drov.*ne<d with a spoon." He had been forced to open his mouth, ir>to . r which corks were put, . 2nd then, .water , n was poured down his throat "antil be wes suffocated. , , r - '. . '_ - "• : -There were bholit SO men m the rccm, ,r> and, tlie culprits" were not .discovered. * :: / ~No one had seen or heard anything, It. ', : 'js said, however, that he was murdered in ' revenge for something which had happened previously, when' he was under,rgoing punishment- as a' convict on the'. island! of Saghalien. : ,': ; s '
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1440, 5 October 1899, Page 12
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210Drowned with a Spoon. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1440, 5 October 1899, Page 12
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