| Show TORTURE PRISONERS SHOCKING CRUELTY PRACTICED UPON MEN AND WOMEN IN GEORGIA STOCKADE investigation committee finds that unfortunate inmates inmate of prison are brutally punished by superintendent Atlan atlanta tn ga D al vining recently suspended as aa superintendent of th the e atlanta city stockade anti anil pete cornet core a guard at the stockade were found found guilty in the superior court here on charges of assault and battery growing glowing out of alleged brutal beating of floyd green a negro convict the indictment against captain vining and his big whipping boss followed an investigation of the prison by a special committee of the grand jury which created a sensation by re porting that the filthy conditions and the cruelty practiced at the stockade blockade were a disgrace to a community in the report it was said men and women prisoners were cruelly beaten women lor for trivial breaches of tile the prison rules tho the I 1 report said eald were wera with iron hand daid rings their feet barely touching the floor and lett left in that position until they fainted in the case of the negro green it was that he be was placed in the bucking machine and ana given awen ti seven blows with a heavy leather strap green testified he was unable to work the next day and for this he was strung up to the wall tor for more than two hours captain vining Is 73 years of age and has been superintendent of the stockade 15 years |
