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Show HIPPING POST IKY BEDISCARDED IVESTIGATION INTO YOUTH'S DEATH BRINGS PROPOSAL TO AMEND STATE LAW lyslclan Claims Death Was In. directly Due to Another Dl-sease; Dl-sease; Hoped to Spare The Relatives Tallahassee, Fla. Working up to o first stago of abolishing tho whip the Florida convict camps, tho ante Thursay received from tho vcr chamber of tho Florida gcnornl sombly an nmondment proposed to o present statuto which would do ray with whipping, a moans of pun. iment now legally employed. Ovor o opposition of fifty negative volers, o bill passed tho houso lute Wed-sday Wed-sday with less debate and cross, o than had boon expected. The iln theme of tho opposition center-on center-on tho Inability to control negro nvicts, at times, without the use tho lash. Tho special Joint commlttoo In. stlgating the death ot Martin Tab-t Tab-t ot North Dakota continued to call tnosscs concerning Tabert's death. Tho commltteo Wednesday heard italls ot tho burial of Tabcrt nnd itened to witnesses for tho Putnam lmbor company, In whoso enmp ibort died. Mrs. Maytlo Mills and Mrs. OUIc liodcs of Calnr, Fla., told tho com-Itteo com-Itteo that Tabort had been glvon n irl8tlan burial. Dr. T. Cnpers Jones, camp phy-clan, phy-clan, tostlflod that ho had attended nbert prior to his death, that Tubort ifd nothing tn him of having been laten, that Tabert's body showed no idonco of Buch, and that he mn1 it tho death certificate to show that nbert died of pneumonia and com. |