BREAD AND TEA DIET.
CONTINUED FOR TEN YEARS. I A CONVICT’S PENANCE. i j A diet of unbuttered bread and tea, adopted 10 years ago by a prisoner in | the death-house at Sing Sing, has been continued ever since with his continued refusal to partake of other food offered at the prison, even on special occasions, says the New York Times. Warden Lewis E. Lawes disclosed j that the diet had been voluntarily adl opted as a " penance," before cxecu- . lion of a death sentence, and had been | continued aftev the sentence had been I commuted to life imprisonment. i The prisoner, Joseph Jaworsky, 60 | years old, has been in the prison since , *lO2l. He had been sentenced to death : for a murder at Findlay Lake, Chau- J tauqua County, where he had worked j as a farm hand. After spending more I than a year in the death house, during which he became religious, his sentence was commuted by Governor Nathan Miller. The prisoner continued the strict diet he had adopted as penance and to show appreciation of the action of Hie Governor.
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Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18654, 4 June 1932, Page 12 (Supplement)
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184BREAD AND TEA DIET. Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18654, 4 June 1932, Page 12 (Supplement)
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