Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-12
TELLS OF B[AI|NE2
Mamie De Crist Relates Har-
rowing Tale of Abuse by
Penitentiary Warden
BEATEN UNTIL UNCONSCIOUS
Legislators of Georgia See Marks Of
the Blows and Hear the Story of Fee
male Prisoner Who Was Victim of
the Warden's spite-The Woman's
Story.

AIilledgeville, Ga. Aug. 12.-Pallid a
a corpse, physically almost unable i,
sit erect. and mentally on the verge o
hysteria, Mamie de Crist, no lonse
awed by Warden Allasood and the lat
ters wife, appeared before the investi-
Igating committee of the legislature yes
terday afternoon and under oath told
her story. The woman declared that il
was not because she had been impert,-
nent to the wife OF the warden that shr
was winged, but because Convict
Warden .Nlagooa had made imprope.
proposals and because she refused to
obey him that she was beaten
The woman spoke slowly, cautiously
ana earnestly. Her eyes We're red from
long weeping and her face. tho almost
blistered from the sun, turned to ash
en- palcness.
II WAS a dramatic moment when the
woman made her charges against the
warden. For a second those presen.
WAIVER under the stare. Then every
eye in the room wandered to the man
the woman had accused
AT first | was treated just as the
member of the Allagood family" she
declared. Then this man made his
proposals to me. l scorned him From
that moment his treatment from that
of gentleman changed TO one OF
brutality and cruelty impossible 10 de-
scribe.
About June L. Miss De Crst CON
tinued, Capt. Allagood and | were
alone in an upper prison ROOM He
caught hold of me and tried to caress
me- | pulled away from him and told
him not TO dare touch me. He left N
anger. going into the next room and sit
ting down. He asked ME 10 come in
TO that room, but L refused ana hur-
ried down stairs.
He told me that il l ever related
what he had done or said that he would
make it hot for me. He certainly has
He told me he could whip me- He
did.
Il told Mary TAYLOR what happene!
She Is one of the female couvicts. ana
| asked her for advice, as had none
else to consult She told me that if
wanted TO get along l had better
do what he asked
Knew Torture Was to Come.
L was without a friend. l had no
one In the world to whom / could so.
knew as other convicts had told me.
that would be tortured and beaten
within an inch ct my life
IN the meantime Allagood went to
the field and forced Mary Taylor TO re-
peat to him what ! had said to her He
went after DR.. Adams and made him
examine me physically to see ii L We're
able to undergo the whipping. The (
doctor examined my person and said he T
thought | could stand the punishment. I
made me lie across the bed.
He then whipped me With the leather
strap. l do not know how many ticks
ne struck. ] know the beating was
most severe. I know the lashes left
treat bruises. l had great welts on my
BODY.
The beating was administered from
ny hips down. For weeks these bruises
md welts We're on my body"
The woman declared her back also
vas dashed, and at the request of the
legislators she exhibited the bruises.
she said:
Il was forced to work in the field in
he sun for two weeks after the Sun
lay on which l was whipped
With great emotion she declared that
he had never got over the whipping
nd never would. She said that after
,llagood made his proposals she tried
o commit suicide. She says she
lmbed on the roof of the barn for the
urpose of throwing herself to the I
round and thus end her life. She ex- /
lained her failure to kill herself by
aging that as she prepared to jump |
rat ran under her skirts and she g
prang to one side, falling on her feet 7
lstead of her head.
Girl Stripped and Whipped.