Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1858 — A Prisoner Murdered. [ARTICLE]

A Prisoner Murdered.

The shower-bath murder at the Auburn State Prison, on Thursday, was a shocking affair. A negro convict, named More, had uttered threats against a foreman in his workshop and was seen sharpening a knife. The keeper, Baker, with the assistance of the deputy warden, took More to the showerbath, pinioned and thrust him into the rack, and let three barrels of water upon his head, occupying half an hour. He was then taken out and died in five minutes. The man was perfectly healthy, but the cor-mer’s jury found th it his death was “undoubtedly hasten d” by the shower-bath. The convicts a: t erw ard at tr ini'ted to kill one of their nil mber who assisted in the punishment of Mor?, and a serious riot prevailed tor half an hour, when the prisoners were secured and locked into their cells.