Black little Robert Barnes and big brown Woodrow Wilson Shropshire say they were sent to solitary confinement in a North Carolina chain-gang "dark house" last January because they warmed their feet at a roadside fire after a guard told them not to. The guard's story is that the two Negro convictsBarnes received stolen goods; Shropshire had driven while drunkwere put in solitary because they refused to work. The Negroes say that they were manacled upright ten hours a day for nine days, that a little wood stove was lit each morning but...
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