DEATH OF PRISONERS
GAOLERS CHARGED PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 20. Arising from the death in the countyprison of four prisoners, the deputywarden, the guard captain and two guards have been charged with murder. Five guards are charged with manslaughter. Investigators sent to the county prison following the discovery of four convicts dead in their cells on August 22, 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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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19743, 23 September 1938, Page 12
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