Philadelphia, Sept. 3.
The Superintendent of the prison jhere, the Deputy Warden, nine guards and two prison doctors have been found criminally negligent for the deaths of the four convicts in the "prison-roasting" case by the coroner's jury investigating the case.
Aw thirteen are to be tried before a grand jury on charges of homicide and manslaughter, according to indications from the District Attorney's office.
The Superintendent and Deputy Warden have been released on bail of $10,000 each. The others are being held without bail.
Tt is alleged that the prison windows were ali'shut and the prison heating then turned on so fully that the prisoners were scalded and ssu located to death.
Convicts who survived testified at yesterday's hearing how the stifled men screamed in agony and beat themselves' against the walls of their cells as the heat became i creasingly wnbearabie.—Reuuer.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.