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Show LIKE STORY FROM I THE DARK ACES j An Inmate of Illinois Reformatory M Tortured to Death by Inhuman Prison Officials. H After Delng Chained Up for Hours, H and Given the Cold Water Cure, the Unfortunate Victim I Left M on Concrete Floor With ' Daek Droken. B Pontine, III. Member; of tho board fl of manage of the llllnol refornm- M tory In thl dty on Tnewlny heard elorlea from the III of ofHcera of the Institution themaelve of brutality OH , and torture Intllctiri upon William M Hamlin, nn Inmate, whose death and the conflicting explanallon thereof M hate raised u storm of criticism. AdmlMlon were wrung from of- fleer of the Institution that Young ill Hamlin was chained to the ban of H Ihe "miliary." Id wrist held by W i iiandriiffa lo a point even with tbo W I top of his head tor twenty two bourn 1 the flrat day of hi punishment, and M I lor sixteen hour the aecond day. n Oil the third evening when ho wna . 1 up, hi endurance gave out after llvo jfl hour, and niter he revived from n fl faint, be either tried to commit nil- 19 cldo or escape. Ilelng chalneil up )M again, he climbed up Ihe bar of hi V cell, probably while In a delirium. -M Ho fnlnted tbe first day of hi tor- H turo and the third night, nnd for Ioiik period during these fainting apellH W he hung hy hi wrist suspended from j9 n bar of hi cell, the leg too limp to IM support lira wolght. H Tho "cold water euro" wn applied. H quart after quint of Ice water bclni: H thrown over him to make him "quit 9J hamming," and once It wu poured down his throat until he choked After ho wa Injured ho wn left lying on m tho concrete floor of tho "solitary" with only a blanket under him and auolher over him, hi back broken In three places and his body paralyzed, m nil hut tho arm, for twelve hours bo- fore tho reformatory phyilclau waa m called, |