Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1914 — TEASING MADDENS A CONVICT [ARTICLE]

TEASING MADDENS A CONVICT

Angered Man Fractures Skull of One of His Tormentors With Hatchet.

Ossining, N. Y.—Maddened by the teasing of other convicts in Sing Sing Michael Sullivan attacked Peter Lagatuta, his nearest tormentor, with a hatchet. He fractured the man’s skull. The assault took place In the, shipping department. There were eighteen or twenty prisoners in the room at the time. Sullivan, who is twentynine years old. was sentenced from New York county on May 13 last to from ten to twenty years for manslaughter. Lagatuta, who is twentyseven years old, was sentenced for burglary to from two years and six months to five years. Sullivan has been considered weak or Simple minded and the prisoners have enjoyed teasing him.

Yale Students Stop Drinking. . New Haven. —Many Yale students have signed a pledge to refrain from drinking, gambling and to shun im-, moral theatrical performances.