Show TORTURE UN rak 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 at vining recently suspended as superintendent of the atlanta city stockade and pete cornet a guard at the stockade were 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 whipping boss followed an investigation of the prison by a special com committee of the grand jury which created a sensation by reporting that the filthy conditions and the cruelty practiced at the stockade wera a disgrace to a civilized community in the report it was said men and women prisoners son ers were wera bru cruelly elly beaten I 1 women for trivial breaches or the prison rules the report said were fastened to the wall with iron hand rings their feet barely touching the floor and left in that position until they fainted in the caso ot of the negro green it waa ras testified that lie be was placed in the bucking machine and given awen ti beven blows with a heavy leather strap green testified he was unable to td work the next day and for this he was 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 |