NEGROES TORTURED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21773, 12 October 1932, Page 7

NEGROES TORTURED

GEORGIA ATROCITIES AMERICAN ALLEGATIONS. NEW YORK, September 28. The revelations of Spanish Inquisition tortures inflicted legally on chain gang convicts in the Southern States is contained in a book, “Georgia Nigger,” by John L. Spivak. Photographs were secretly taken showing convicts broken on the rack and hanging. unconscious in stocks such as those used 300 years ago. Others were chained hy iron collars around the neck like Roman galley slaves, or weighted with 201 b leg spikes, reminiscent of Siberian prisons. . Some of the convicts were caged like wild beasts, and poignant letters plead “in mercy’s name for help.” The author makes the charge that these conditions prevail in Georgia and also in the entire southern black belt, where white and coloured prisoners work together. A former Georgia Governor, Mr Dorsey, states; “It seems we stand indicted as a people before the world. If these conditions, continue, man and God will justly condemn -Georgia more severely than they condemned Belgium and King Leopold for the Congo atrocities. Reform organisations are planning to make the conditions a national issue and are seeking Congressional investigation.