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Show TDRTUREPRISOHERS SHOCKING CRUELTY PRACTICED UPON MEN AND WOMEN IN GEORGIA STOCKADE. Investigation Committee Finds That Unfortunate Inmates of Prison Are Brutally Punished by Superintendent. Atlanta, Ga. D. M. Vining, recently recent-ly suspended as superintendent of the Atlanta City stockade, and Pete Cornet, Cor-net, a guard at the stockade, were found guilty in the Superior court here on charges of assault and battery giowing out of alleged brutal beating of Floyd Green, a negro convict. The indictment against. Captain Vining and his whipping boss, followed fol-lowed an investigation of the prison bv a special committee of the grand jury which created a sensation by reporting re-porting that the filthy conditions and the cruelty practiced at the stockade were a disgrace to a civilized community. com-munity. In the report, it was said men and women prisoners were cruelly beaten. Women, for trivial breaches oi the prison rules, the report said, were lastened to the wall with iron hand rings, their feet barely touching the floor, and leit in that position until they fit'nted. In the case of the negro, Green, it was testified that he was placed in the bucking machine and given twenty twen-ty -r-even 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 for more than two hours. Captain Vining is 73 years of age and has been superintendent of the stockade 15 years. |