Show CRUELTY TO CONVICTS A Pardoned Criminal Recites ix Story i I of Brutality i Atlanta Ga Aug 12Harvcy Met I rut recently pardoned out of tho i > U Itentlary has entered su for envy damages against i penlU try com puny I err w r < s a 1 rrlblo 11 of Inhu a 1 uuvil tie Itment at thc bail Ir I action TIe was In for tvi y > MS but was pardoned after nor ing n lars been UfO ho was no longer use ul to tin lessees I While woiHri for tin Chattahooclilo Uriel oumi ny and In tho coal mine of the lessees In Walker county ho allege that ItOS was at frequent times beaten I with inhuman savageness Sixty to seventy licks on tho naked back lie says with a threepound strap was no unusual punishment At one time he vas given 115 lashes the blood spurting forth at each blow After this purtlcu tar beating ho attempted to escape was ecaptured and lie recites tho horrible etalls of the beating he received Six men held him while Woodruff the hlpplng boss plied the knot which was ppllt by the force of the blows One of Ills eyes was put out by the terrible strap |