Show I BRUTAL BRUTAL PRISON DEATHS BARED Jury Hems HealS Story of I Y Youth Who rho Loses Maud MaudIn In Blast BIRMINGHAM Ala May MIlY 4 4 By The Associated Iress Press while the tho th Jefferson county grand jury was Inquiring Into reports of mysterious deaths at state state- state operated operated convict camps In this county count word ord reached the jury that Hose Moso Thomas nero negro prisoner had been killed at Flat Top dur- dur durIn during dur during In ing tho the day Ilay b by coming In contact with a live JIve wire In to the tho under under- underground underground underground ground workings of the tho pit Of- Of Officials Officials Of Official said ald the tho th inquisitors Inquisitor ml might ht Include this death with others under Investigations Maimed convicts from not at Top some ome of o them mere youths In ap- ap appearance ap appearance continued to tell their stories to the th jurors One On of cf 10 lo dayl days day's witness's witnesses was Bill West 24 who lost a hand after he ho was sent to camp mp Authorities summoned Vest when they had lad been told that he be ost post his hand by an ex- ex explosion ex explosion of powder gelt soH so that he ho might be bo disabled led from performing the arduous tasks Im- Im Imposed imposed im imposed posed Other reports of like char char- character character character acter had bad reached officials In charge of the th Inquiry PUSH PUSHED UNDER c it Sam Sant Dockery Dock I another white while cO convict lct now Imprisoned at Al- Al Aldrich Aldrich Al also went before betor re the tho jury bearing a crippled hand Officials said It had been reported to then them that Dochery had charged charred that he received the tir Injury when a straw boss hoss deliberately pushed him under a 0 mine car The grand erand jury was to call Wiley Pu Push Pugh h today Puh Pugh was as n II white convict con who instigated In the first Inquiry Into the tho death of James W V Knox The rho jury started out to investigate that case and the tho testimony led Into a broadened field hl which h embraced the tho workings of o the convict SS S'S system tern tem from many angles num THC T T fL Fresh complaints complaint and III new r I evidence evi evidence de dence nee caused the Investigation to take Into account at least four deaths besides beside that of Knox nox to- to together to together gether with brutal floggings Ing an and alleged Inhuman working condi condi- conditions conditions condition tion In sworn given In the preliminary hearing In the Knox case Pugh declared l Knox died In a laundry vat while undergo undergo- undergoing undergoing ing a ducking as ns punishment for alleged Infringement of rules Pugh said that the tho cold water was first turned on Knox then the th vat at was flooded with wt h hot water Pugh further testified In that rec- rec record rec record ord that the cries of ot Knox ro- ro resounded rounded re-rounded lord sounded through the th camp be be- be before for be-for fore foro he lid died In thoat the tho vat rat at After Knox died Pughs Pugh's Pugh testimony con con- continued continued con continued the th boly body was wall wa removed to the prison pricer- hospital where a metallic poison polson wax was forced forcell Into It by an nn orderly to simulate suicide |