The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-18

this year was Arthur Maillefert, 19 Westfield, N. J. He had been beat. en. Then his body was clothed" ir a barrel and he was marched around camp. The youth escaped from the barrel, but bloodhound. got him. Then he was thrown into the sweat box"
 The box is a little wooden frame closet about six feet tall and three feet square. It's inmate can not stand unless his legs are very short when he may double up, his knees touching his head.
 Maillefert, weakened by his ex. perience, and starved for AS hours was placed in the box, chain around his neck. An hour later he was found dead, checked to death by the chain.
 G. W. Courson and Sol Siggin- botham were indicted after the boys death.
 Two months ago, Harold Bradley of Loretta, Pa., was shot to death while attempting to escape a pri- son camp where such tortures, plus the stocks used commonly by the pilgrim fathers were permitted The grand jury exonerated the pri- son guards.
 Governor Carleton promised an investigation of that shooting. it was learned, after news of the Maillefert Sweat box" death brought renewed demands for an investigation.
 Last Wednesday, g negro prison CT in Spauldin:;; County Georgia prison camp died of 'supstroke" the guards reported. Physicians who performed an autopsy on Jim Lassiter, the prisoner, said he died of fractured skull.
 P. H. Randall, superintendent of the camp, has been charged with murder as result of that death.
 And if reports held by German are correct, fourth man has fal- len victim to enforcement of disci- pline within a few weeks.
 German, as result, is making an intensive investigation of the prison camps in this state. He al- ready has demanded removal of J. H. Baker, guard captain who suc- ceeded Courson. Bawer, according to German, was chiefly responsible for the punishment methods used.
 Welfare workers and prison re- form groups are interested in what German finds and dQes that may help them in their work elsewhere. they reported, but do employ the other torture systems effectively.
 Georgia, for instance, used this system effectively:
 The prisoner is placed in stocks, his ankles are clamped in holes in piece of timber about 15 inches from the ground. Hands are clamp ed 8 few inches above the ankles. The prisoner is unable to move, be- cause he is thrown back on his spine, helpless. He remains not more than one hour, and is exam ined by a doctor before starting his one-hour session.
 Georgia has abolished whipping.
 Alabama, which got into the headlines a few years ago with sen- sational stories of prison camp at- rocities. uses the lash and solitary confinement. A sick war veteran lashed g few months ago. caused an outcry against the punishment.
 Solitary confinement on bread and water is North Carolina's pun ishment. Mississippi whips her pri- soners. Louisiana prescribes a strap two inches wide and ten inches long on the end of a club. Ten nessee permits the whip, ball and chain. and the sweat box.
 The south's prison camps are not alone in their use of torture. The Wickersham commission a year ago severely condemned police third degree methods in almost all large cities. And news dispatches from New York this week end said lover enthusiastic" police at Mine ola had broken a prisoners adams apple, causing his death.
 Investigation Opens
 Mineola, N. Y., July 1S-(UP)- The alleged third degree" death of Hyman Stark. robber suspect, was investigated to-day in a spe- cial John Doe hearing with As- sistant District Attorney Martin W. Littleton, Jr. called as the first witness.
 Littleton had charge of the inquiry into Stark's death, which was caused by q fractured larynx, according to Dis- trict Attorney Elvin N. Edwards.
 The prisoner died Friday night after eight hours of questioning about the robbing and beating of Mrs Valeria Hizenski of Roslyn Heights, mother of a county de- tective. Edwards charged that some over-enthusiastic police off, cer broke that mans Adams apple"
 Joseph Hizenski, suspended county detective and son of the robbery victim, one of these who questioned Stark, was among the police witnesses waiting to ap- pear.
 Justice Meier Steinbrink presid- ed at the inquiry.
 Littleton said Deputy Chief Frank Tappan, also suspended af- ter Stark's death, had conie to him after Stark and three companions were captured, explaining that un- der the circumstances it was "likely the police might have murder on their hands and ask ing for advice.
 He told me that the four men were in custody and had been Littleton said. He also informed me that Mrs Hizen- ski was believed to have a frac- tured skull and fractured nose.
 "In view of the fact that Mrs Hizenski was the mother of one of the detectives, told the police they should be very careful in the I told Deputy Chief Tappan that if under the circum. stances these men were injured 1t might be very serious. I told him not to resort to the third degree under any circumstances, because the use of force>is not in keeping with our policy"
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