People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — SWEATBOX. [ARTICLE]

SWEATBOX.

vt> Torture Till Recently Bei l sed In Tennessee. ■ ugh Hamilton county, Tenn., >* yet celebrated the centennial •r - - of its evacuation bjr the Inhas, nevertheless, developed"; • torture that would have been ■. device in mediaeval ages. It w ■ us the sweatbox, and until the recent investigation the grand" jury was in active use by the county, workhouse authorities at Daisy, Tenn., § in subduing fractions prisoners. By the system in vogue county prison-;:; ers are worked in gangs on the public roads, and consequently several penal settlements or workhouses are scattered! throughout the country. Daisy is in the northern end of Hamilton, at the base of Signal mountain. The sweatbox is a large box resembling a coffin case, about 3 feet square and Bor 9 high. In the top vw»s a large hook, to which was attached a block and tackle. The culprit was handcuffed and his feet chained together, the ball block,' hooked to the handcuffs, and with his hands elevated over his head he was drawn to the top of the box with a half inch grass rope. There he was left hang-: ing till he or she yielded and begged to be taken down. The jury found a little negro girl inside on their visit of inspection. The child was barefooted, thinly clad and crying with cold. The finding of the jury has aroused the people, and. jpM safe to say that the sweat box will not be perpetuated.—Cincim .;t. Huquirein »,.