Show CONVICT coNicT DiGS 1 HIS HS O GRAVE Texas Prisoners Hung Byl BY Hands Investigator Testifies Tens Teens Tei Feb Ire 11 Mr J r J 1 I i Kinf ing eh chairman of ot the 10 I 10 I IMor board bo rd J 1 told Ih the eg lathe the committee Ins In- In I prison conditions of tho thre- thre three rear ear fight a ie ie had waged against alleged Rn and graft In Texas Tells pen pen pen-il 1 n Institutions lions system S She told lold an amazing story alory of prison on deaths deathe neglect or 0 o sick prisoners prisoners harsh and cruet cruel cru 1 treat treat- treatment treat treatment ment by guards and doctors tors and general Inefficiency In he ho 8 tem li-tem tom rem The death or ot rink frank Chance nce a nathe of Chile Bald ild to hive 1 ivo Ive been shot hot to death by guards on n one of the prison farms torms farm ns as by bi Sirs Irs king I inc set ct the members aghast It Il fi nas u charged Chance Chanco hid had been I to dig Illg his own on grace gra crave Mrs Iro KInf dc- dc dc ellred the min man 18 mural ruurd red In cold eol l blood and that she md had tried In i In ln to obtain tho the to harlte harge of one of tho the guards curds wo 0 nas a charged with complicity in tho case Mrs King said the she received r ce cd a Idler tier from rom Chance asking her to come to the prison and ease c nim because he feared e he Va to be kilted killed According to the letter the guards had tal taken en Chance Chanco out In it k field hero they the made mide him dig a hole holo which they inferred I nas a m to be bo his grave grive Thc They asked me how toIl till I Ia Iwas as a as said Chance Chances A lettel Ilch Iro Icing Kinic read rend I told them hem sit tl feet they ordered d nT mo to todie Ug dig a hole holo hol seven feet Ceet 1 line Ing ng as 1 that nas as to be my grace gre Mrs Ling King hastened to lo the th prison farm as aa soon oon as sae nc le could but Wl was wis delayed d la ed Id ie eral se eral dys 1 Iy ys nl ILS s ti when hen I cd Chase Ch Cha ice ILa nas 01 dead confined the n as os lIe Ito had been bIen shot hot liol to death ov as the gual guards ds Ills death wm was wl u o coil blooded blooded brutal murd t i The Tho guards Juard explained e they h ml 1 shot him because he 1 hid td threatened Lo x a dos dog and thY they e hou h ht It their dut duly duli lo 10 protect stall property bs the Iha prisoner 1 1 demanded de- de demanded de demanded that the he guards IP lp prose prose- prosecuted e for murder and r r 11 the gland g jury to take the h in mallet up Th only result was wig that fiat one of them wr was d S fhe I Is Ic MII I I LH J IJ 1 MI Mr Ir Mrs King Kine said ald she ho found Con d pris- pris pris onele at al the Ibo Clemens Clemen farm tarm were 13 to ork nor In toa ba bong 5 ann s sun with lIh the o abo bo degrees decrees and that tile tae phi phi- of this firm farm infused to 10 treat Ireat a Mexican with silk r i 1 broken taw w wAt At the tubercular tam the ho de- de de she h found men In inthe inthe the thc dairy house here here II ito milk and butter Co tot toi the here ere kept The Tir beds at nt this hru farn were w all o ll e pith bugs buea which fell Cen to the tho floor when hen the ere lifted she said laid adding teat taut or- or of officials at ot Iho rho Ca farm m told her this was soot toot v I I never 81 loot sooL with Ith legs mid add craw cra line she ho r f G uv ui Bl 11 D n nus us At the Ramsey Ramse farm tarm the she less tes- tes testified tined prisoners were strung up upon upon upon on long lone ladders by thet thel the hands upI I Sho said Bald she ehe he discovered this up upon upon on examining the sore or I d of ofa n a prisoner lie JIe II told her he had been strung up his hands bu burst open Sho declared she the had lied Ined ed for toie years irs to lo have Captain T Thornton In charge of ot the V Wynne I to falln m removed tor tar 1 t Y Yand and Ind for the tho c there w hen hen she he is case cae before the Iho pilson prison commissioners she he declarer declared tt II i Mc Ic McKnight Knight told her she the was s 01 right but that Thornton i not bt be remo ed at of th that thit t lime tIme ane na 1 Mc Ie inight toted noted with ua J A of or to re iet a lain ln Thornton she testified aI I m IH OU CI U JIll 7 1 1 he prison I bat at leather whip she rt as a ter- ter terrible thing which chodd huud be I abolished Asked by a member ot of Ills th commute committe It If i would be possible it t she sheI I replied that th t solita confinement was Much nuch more t A studY of some somo of the best besl pr prisons on In Inthe Inthe Inthe the country has led her to this conclusion she slie said oud n I |