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Show Diocese of Cheyenne CHEYENNE. (No Mistreatment of Convicts at "Wyoming "Wy-oming Penitentiary. W. P. Carroll, sent to investigate the charges of cruelty made against the lessee of the state penitentiary at Laramie, Lara-mie, has returned. He made a thorough thor-ough investigation. In not a single instance in-stance did he find any evidence of mistreatment mis-treatment of the convicts, nor did they have any complaint to make. Nard. who, it was alleged, was tortured cruelly, cruel-ly, admitted that he had been punished by confinement in a dark cell because he refused to do any work whatever, and that a physician vis'ited him each day to see that the confinement was not having any bad effect upon his mind. |