MAN CRUCIFIED
) NAILED TO WOODEN CROSS FORMER PRISONERS’ REYENGE ’nlted Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. CopyrlgOi RENO. August 27 A passing motorist found Edward Collins, a former prisoner, nailed to a rough wooden cross lying at the side of a road. Spikes had been driven ) through his hands and one through each fool. The man told the police, that two _ former prison associates, a Swede and _ a “dago,” had met him coming from j a church meeting and compelled him _ at the point of a pistol to sleal lumt her, take off hfs clothes and stretch himself upon the cross. 1 This action was taken, said the vic--1 Hm, because he had refused lo work 3 with them in some jobs. The assaily ants soaked his clothes with kerof sene and burned them, and then fled. Collins was taken to hospital. He is expected to recover.
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20589, 29 August 1938, Page 7
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