In re Birdsong

An investigation, which resulted in the issuance of the rule in this case, was made in consequence of a publication in a local paper reciting that a United States prisoner, Joe Warren, had been guilty of disorderly conduct in jail; that the jailer had called in policemen, and with their aid had inflicted disciplinary punishment upon the prisoner. The publication contained this clause:

“He [the prisoner] was chained by the neck to the grating of the cell, and by the time he stands up until this morning, and lives a day or two on bread and water, he will probably be willing to be disciplined.”

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