Details of the incident were at first suppressed. Superintendent Wil. liam B. Mills announced that the prisoners had committed suicide. City detectives later said that they had fought among themselves in an aftermath of an alleged "hunger strike" and subsequently died of exhaustion. However, the coroner's physician, Dr. Martin P. Crane, re ported death was from suffocation with evidence of "nasal congestion due to gas, steam or hot water, and asserted that the convicts had bee:
"baked alive."
The State Welfare department, the District Attorney's office and the Committee on Criminal Business of the Board of Judges joined the coroner's office in the early investigation of the Incident. It was revealed that Dr. George F. Enoch, one of the prison's visiting physicians had been prevented from visiting the victims eighteen hours before they were found dead and despite a standing order that all prisoners in the Klondike should be examined once every 24 hours, Troops Patrol Rangoon To Keep Peace Rangoon, Jan. 9.
Troops began to patrol Rangoon this morning following sporadic activities of troublemakers in connection with the civil disobedience campaign of the last two days. The number. of demonstrators has been swelled with the arrival from outlying districts of 2,000 hunger marchers who are agitating for better conditions.
A fire occurred last night in a Buddhist monastery which was the nerve centre of the Buddhist-Moslem riots in July.
Three buildings were destroyed, and one person was killed, his charred body being found in the ruins. After this incident, civil and military police were placed on duty at the monastery—Reuter.
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