Show cirace TO young men sent to a florida convict camp failure to do impossible tasks they were beaten until raw will sue for damages st bt louis reb feb 31 an ocala ha ape caal says after ten days of torture at a convict camp whither they had been hurit M nt as tramps eleven young men were released on an writs of habeas corpus issued by circuit judge hocker the oung men gave their names as george bo ba charles smith kentucky t jack ingram ingrain ohio oscar wagner mis wurl thomas cummings john davis da vis new york thomas forbes pennsyl penney I 1 vanja vana jack ryan louisiana don clint illinois john te texas as joseph stone massachusetts TI r two weeks ago the party reached ocala they were well dressed and said they were walking to bee the country better and to hunt and fiali at will they did not ask aid but the day clay after their arrival they were arrested justice clary sent them to the convict farm as tramps at atthe the ranch they were w ere barbarously treated they were chained to negroes a and given impossible tasks aeve every ry hight upon reporting the tasks inper formed they were stripped lied acro across as hogsand logs and whipped with ith raw hides until the blood gushed last night the coldest of the winter the guards drove them into a pond shouting you have been ranting a bath now 9 get et it 11 twice a ity y the were given bread but no mea meat t at judge hookers ll request they barei bared a heir backs which were found raw andt quivering five of them may not recover in discharging the young men judge hocker said their arrest sentence and treatment disgraced civilization a and nd every one concerned in it should be SP ge merely berely punished the habeas corpus proceedings were brought by ocala cit eizens the victims of the outrage will bring heavy suits for damages |