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Mr. Coffey . ial Mr. Edwards Mr. Egan . Mr. Harbo.. Mr. Kelth .... Mr, Leste (gA¥5 ‘AL CAPONE— | PARTICIPATED IN HUNGER STRIKE. Ban Francisco, Cal, Dee. 15—(P}—' Some of the alleged secrets of Alcatraz teland, including an asserted hunger strike by Al Capone and other prison- era, were disclosed today by John) Btadig, young counterfeiter, before om | cials clapped him back into the gov-; ernment’s carefully guarded prison for arch erimiaas, “Y’a rather die than go back to Al- catraz, That's a hell hole,” Stadig told Constable John Ott immediately after being captured near Martinez, Cal.) yesterday. He escaped recently while being returned to the prison from Portland, where he bad been taken to appear in court. “T got a 15 year rentence at Port- land through a frameup,” Stadig said. {The warden, attorney general, and Portland court framed me because I had written a letter to the attorney general criticizing the prison. “My pal and *‘YTrmtevked the warden to allow us some newspapers and} motion pictures jn the prison once a, month. He shackled us and threw us In the dungeon for this, and if we got two alices of bread a day we were lucky. . “Al Capone and other prisoners went on a strike and refused to eat} or come out of their cells, and in three (Osxs-Bewore released trom th: \geon. It was after that I wrote to the ‘attorney general.”