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...best-known missionaries in China was found dead in his prison cell at Wuchow. He was Dr. William L. Wallace, 43, a Southern Baptist medical missionary. His Communist jailers, who had imprisoned him on trumped-up "spy" charges, called it suicide. When Father Mark Tennien, a Roman Catholic Maryknoll missionary and a longtime friend of Dr. Wallace's, got out of China last November, newspaper stories from Hong Kong quoted him as confirming this version of Wallace's death (TIME...
...Manhattan last week, Father Tennien straightened out the record. It was true, he said, that Dr. Wallace, driven out of his mind by the Reds' unending and unbelievably thorough "interrogation" sessions, might have committed suicide. The day he died, two other Catholic missionaries, imprisoned at the same place, were shown his body, hanging from the roof of his cell. Strangely, however, there was no discoloration of the face or other signs of suffocation by strangling. His body, on the other hand, was covered with bruises from beatings. Only the Communists, says Father Tennien, know how he died, whether beaten...
...Medical Missionary William L. Wallace, 42, a Southern Baptist of Knoxville, Tenn. When no Chinese would testify against him, the Reds "found" a pistol in his bed in Wuchow, and dragged him off to jail in his pajamas (TIME, March 12). This week in Hong Kong, Father Mark Tennien, Roman Catholic missionary from Pittsford, Vt., and a prisoner in Wuchow before he was expelled from China by the Communists, told the rest of the story...
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