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Show . TALES OF CRUELTY TO PRISONERS CORROBORATED ATLANTA, Gn Jan. 1. John Dortd. I formor overseer at the city prlaon, testl- j fylnc before the council Investigating committee today. In addition to corroborating corrobo-rating the stories of cruelty to prisoners and of filthy and unsanitary conditions, declared that- the food served the prlH-onor prlH-onor was unflt even for the lowest kind of animals Prisoners frequently showed bread containing flies, he paid, and one man brought him a piece of bread con- talnlng a spider. Ho declared tho place was overrun with vermin. , - Pearl Bryan, one of the three white women who were hung up by rings while at the stockade, aald she was strung up : nearly forty-five minutes, and was only I taken down when they saw blood run ning down her arms. |