The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-19

ATLANTA, ia. The national
eye the last week has been directed
upon the Atlanta federal prison,
which has just become the Temporal
ry abode of Charles Wyman Morse.
former New York ice king, million
aire banker and consolidator of
steamship lines.
So far this prison has sheltered
but few millionaires. That may be
due in part to the fact that it has
only been in business eight years.
Then the government has been some
what slow in convicting it's alleged
millionaire violators of law.
There were Greene and Gaynor,
convicted of harbor conspiracy
frauds, each of whom was reputed
worth more than million, but
Morse far outshadows these and all
others who have yet been brought
here for involuntary confinement.
B. d. Greene and John F. Gaynor,
convicted before Judge Emory Speer,
and sentenced to four years each in
the federal pnitentiary, have sixteen
months more to serve In collision
with former Capt. Oberlin M Car
ter, they were charged with having
robbed the government of something
like 100000 in connection with
the Savannah harbor and other SINH
lar works.
Greene and Gaynor.
Greene, who was a former captain
in the United States Engineer Corps,
is in excellent health, it is said, and
his engineering knowledge is being
struction department of the prison.
This department is engaged in build
ing a large stone addition to the in
stitution, which will contain cells for
nearly 1000 more convicts. 1t will
be completed in 1915.
Gaynor was suffering with locomo-
tor ataxia When he came to the pris-
on. At one time he could not walk.
He is in the prison hospital, where
he has improved wonderfully, and is
now able to walk about the room
He may never get we'll permanently,
but he probo bly, will leave the pris-
on IS per cent. better off than when
he came into it.
These facts about them have leak
ed out on account of the prominence
of the prisoners. Nothing could be
found out about them by inquiry of
the prison officials. They will tell
you all about the institution, but as
to individuals, nothing. There's only
one copy of who's who" in the fed
eral prison, which no outsider may
inspect.
I'll gladly tell you all you want
to know about the institution" said
i
may look through for yourself and
see what there is to see. But as to
individuals | can tell you nothing
1t is all right for newspapers to dis
cuss their cases when they are in
the courts, making a fight for their
liberty, but when they come here
they are paying the penalty, and we
feel that we owe them that protec-
ton. Nothing regarding individuals
is ever given out, except in case of
an escape, or for good and sufficient
reasons upon authority from the de-
partment in Washington"
785 Men Wear Numbers.
One may learn that there are 1856
inmates in the institution, of whom
275 are negroes, thirteen Indians and
the remainder white; one may gather
from government reports that more
than 100 of these are farmers, more
than $50 laborers, an even dozen are
bankers, and that among others
there are bartenders, cigarmakers,
dressmakers, lawyers, chauffeurs,
coachmen, brokers, cooks and other
classes; one may become informed
likewise that seventy are there for
embezzlement, in nineteen cases of
national bank funds; 68 are murder
ers, 125 are counterfeiters, SO are
'moOnshiners" and more than a hun
dred others violators of internal rev.
enue laws, many are postoffice rob-
bers, others used the mails to de-
fraud, seven are former white slave
traders" and three wilfully sold ole
Omargarine for butter.
But who is and whence came No.
2156 or No. 2344, you may not know
or anything else about him. Identi-
ty is completely lost in a set of fig
ures, appearing on the back of the