Show Prison Camp Atrocities Ar Are Charged HOUSTON T x Dec 20 Charges Charges I. I that prisoners in tn Texas Texas' prison camps are beaten to death killed for minorI minor offenses and mistreated were made here her today by George W W. Dixon widely I known magazine writer of ot Houston in tri an open letter said to have been mailed broad broadcast ast to newspapers newspaper throughout the state Dixon in in his letter says his report report report re re port shows thirteen prisoners killed Of Ot this number five were beaten to death and eight were shot by prison guards Heavy manila manna rope rop-c was used In beating one man tp death Dixon writes The r e was was first soaked In water and then applied to th the prisoners prisoner's bo body ly Prisoners suffering from tuberculosis losis rosis are also mistreated Dixon said declaring tubercular persons are driven n to work in the rain and that tha two patients were chained together by their wrists wrIstA stripped naked am and kept in a dungeon for seventeen hours During the influenza epidemic volunteer volunteer volunteer vol vol- vol- vol nurses found a a. prisoner ha had been shot to death th the night before at a camp and the cause of ot his death reported a as influenza the charges relate Dixon claims he has the names o ot of prisoners rs and guards involved In al aU all i cases cases and will give the tho names dates I and places to to any bona fide official commission that desires to correct th these e abuses S' S |