The Archive · 1938

Pennsylvania Warders On Homicide Charge

Philadelphia, Aug. 31, 'Two murders are on' trial' here, charged with homlelde in connection with the deaths of four prisoners who were on a hunger strike in the gaol here, The warders have been ordered to be held without bail, The prisoners are sitd to have been found naked in the cells in conditions which were compared the assistant District Attorney with the "Black Hole" of Calcutta.

Their bodies were described as being "black and blue." The Coroner declared that death was due to seald-ing, and there were signs of suffoca-

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