TRAPPED IN CAGE.
CONVICTS BURNED TO DEATH
United Press Assn.—By Electric Teleg ra ph—Copy right. MONTREAL. January* 31.
A tragedy occurred at Scottsboro involving the burning to death ot 20 negroes. Twenty-two negro convicts were being transported in a motor lorry cage used for the transfer of prisoners from a prison road camp to tbe stone-crushing pits. A drum of petrol was also being carried. and the fluid splashed over as the lorry hit an icy portion of tbe road.
The convicts were bending over a bundle of burning paper, which one of their number had ignited in order to warm his hands, when a stream of petrol washed over the zame. It made the interior of the cage a roaring furnace. Guards succeeded in pulling two negroes out, but they were so badly* injured that even these are not expected to live.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13172, 3 February 1936, Page 4
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