Show Fugitive Bares Torture Inflicted in tn Chain Gang CHICAGO Dec 8 B The CUP UP The plea of f an English auth authoress ress Rosita Forbes stood t today toay between James Larue 22 and return to 10 Florida to complete a year five-year sentence to the chain bain gang Miss Forbes Forbes' sympathies were aroused by Larue's Larue d declaration that return to the chain gang me meant nt living livin death eath for fora a crime he contends he did didot not ot commit She employed attorneys to o defend him Florida officers who obtained ex ex- I for Lame Larue In Spring Spring- field eld were to arrive here today to seek custody of him His attorneys will seek a writ of habeas corpus I Their principal hope they admit Is yi t appeal for lor humanitarianism r rather ther than nan for tor legal rights Larue was sentenced sen sen- t to the chain gang after pleading plead plead- log ing ng guilty to breaking into a deserted orange range grove hut He escaped after fter ter serving erving five months His case recalled that of Robert Elliott El- El liott Burns who escaped from a Gloria Gear Glor gia ia chain g gang ng and nd established himself him him- self elf as a successful Chicago publisher Burns urns was sentenced for stealing 4 He e was say saved d by Governor Moore of New cw Jed Jersey y who refused to allow Georgia authorities to take him Larue des described alleged atrocities inflicted on chain gang convicts I wasn't strong enough to do the work so they put me In the hot box he told Judge Alfred Alfred O. O Erickson You r roast ast all day In the box under the hot sun and then freeze at night he said MId He described the hot box as something something some thing like a coffin and you cant can't sit down in it iL You cant can't stand up tip straight either You stand there all allday allday allday day in the broiling sun In bent posItIon position tion with boards on all sides aides and nd nothing over your head They kept me there eight days naked awful sun sun And wh when n they let m me out they beat me mc I 1 weighed pounds I went Into the chain gang and md when I escaped five months later laterI I 1 weighed |