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Show " WHIPPING POST MAY BE01SCARDED INVESTIGATION INTO YOUTH'S DEATH BRINGS PROPOSAL TO AMEND STATE LAW Physician Claims Death Was Indirectly In-directly Due to Another Di-sease; Di-sease; Hoped to Spare The Relatives Tallahassee, Fla. Working up to the first stage of abolishing the whip in the Florida convict camps, the senate Thursay received from the lower chamber of the Florida general assembly an amendment proposed to the present statute which would do away with whipping, a means of punishment pun-ishment now legally employed. Over the opposition of fifty negative voters, the bill passed the house late Wednesday Wed-nesday with less debate and crossfire cross-fire than had been expected. The main theme of the opposition centered center-ed on the inability to control negro convicts, at times, without the use of the lash. The special joint committee investigating in-vestigating the death of Martin Tabert Tab-ert of North Dakota continued to call witnesses concerning Tabert's death. The committee Wednesday heard details of the burial of Tabert and listened to witnesses for the Putnam Lumber company, in whose camp Tabert died. Mrs. Maytle Mills and Mrs. Ollie Rhodes of Calar, Fla., told the committee com-mittee that Tabert had been given a Christian burial. Dr. T. Caper's Jones, camp physician, phy-sician, testified that he had attended Tabert prior to his death, that Tabert said nothing to him of having been heaten, that Tabert's body showed no evidence of such, and that he made out the death certificate to show that Tabert died of pneumonia and complication com-plication of malaria. |