North Carolina Police Chief Clais Negro Beat Self to Death

The Bulletin Vol. 3, No. 14, 21 October 1963 · p. 7 of the scan · 77 words

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_ Qwo prisoners have been found dead under mysterious circumstances in the geal in Hamlet, North Carolina, Police Chief Ernest King claims that the latest victim, Benjamin Bogans,; a 39-year-old Negro arrested on a charge of drunkenness, “beat his head against the cell during the night and killed himself," This bizarre explanation of Bogan's denth - from obvious bruises on the head — came 2 weeks after anothor prisoner had been found dead in the same cell.