Show TERRIBLE BRUTALITY IN ILLINOIS reformatory pontiac jan 28 members ot the board of managers of the illinois in this city today heard aberts laundry and the sooner yon start your linen to our ann dry the better it will be for you and while about it also send your dry cleaning as we do the jest work in cleaning and arps yng and gentlemen ap stories from the lips of officers of the institution themselves of brutality and torture inflicted on wm hamlan an inmate choso whoso death and the conflicting explanations have raised a storm of criticism admissions were wrung from officers of the institution that young hamlin was chained to the bars of the solitary his wrists held by handcuffs to a point even with the top of his head for twenty two hours the first day of hie punishment and for sixteen hours the second day on the third evening when he was tied up his endurance give out after five hours and after he had revived from a faint he cither tried to suicide or escape being chained up again he climbed up the bars of his cell probably while in a doUr lum he fainted the elret day of his torture and the third and for long periods during these ta inting spells he hung by his costs suspended from a bar of his cell the legs too limp to support his weight the cold water cure was applied quart after quart of ice water being thrown over him to make him quit shamming and it was poured down his throat until he choked after he was injured ho was left lying on the concrete floor of the solitary with only a blanket under him and another over him his back broken in three places and his body paralyzed all but the arms for twelve hours before the reformatory physician was called |