Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-04
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,s...r minutes The probers refused
- make public the stories told by
~. ,,oyicts but one of them, H. D.
,,,.,,,,rqs whose sentence will expire
=, ,,a,ve days, told the newspaper
M, his story when he came out.
Here it is:
or am serving my first term he
I'D II was sent up flor assault to
.,.,rds~ We are treated little better
.,,, dogs here, although the new
a..-den Mr. Clark, appears to want
- do the right thing. Guards have
.,.sad me and applied vile epithets
~ NV mother and if l objected
,,os vrbipped. I was f1ogged on my
Va skin in June, and to this day
5.n+ know what l was whipped for.
I Ty, sem guards come into the camp
l.oggerIpe under the influence of
n.5isi,y and once l saw guard
sr!nls;ng He offered me a drink and
rrrsfs. me when | refused.
Made to Work While III.
zone dav last summer l got sick
4,r;,o The work and Charley Wood, a
ansrd Who is brute, wouldn't let me
En- Down. The next day I laid in, be-
Sorse was sick, and the Jack man,
Sontaiu Thomson, came and cursed
me and said there was nothing the
matter with me.
ON another occa sion Charley Wood
,,s6e me climb down off the bank,
where 7 had fallen because | was so
eir, and made me get into the cut
and 90 to work. | could hardly stand
gn1 30 couldn't see, but he held me
under the gun and made me swing a
shovel
The dav | was whipped--for what
reason I do not knoV-other men
we're logged for the same reason.
Among them were Guy Forester, joe
Owens. John Lively and a man we
call Fifteen Cents whose real name
do not know. | worked all the day
before. and worked hard, for I've
worked hard ever since ] came here.
When we went out on the chain that
morning Charley Wood came along
and stopped in front of us, and cursed
and said:
GO back into the Office, you -,
and get killed.
~ got seven lashes and Guy For
roster got nItS6n. ne QUIET IieH SOl
from five to ten each"
16-Year Boys Story.
Frank Huseman, a 16-year- old boy,
who is serving a two-Xear sentence
for larceny. showed hand that was
covered with the remains of a bad
abscess. He said the guards had
made MIN work when the sore was at
its worst stage, with no protection
txf,y
Ben Cohen said he had been
whipped once during his six months
term for laziness.
God knows" ne said, that work
as hard as I can. I'm not the strong
stand everything. I do my best: but
they whipped me because l couldn't
DO more
Tales Of brutality were told when
the Investigators went to the Adams
vile works the stretch of road
where the men under the gun were
working
They found R. f. Watson there. a
boy whose left arm is useless, dried
and shriveled from the effects of a
vunsho5 wound.
Works With One Arm.
He said that, although the doctor
mad said he was not able to handle a
shovel, guards had forced him to
work under the gun with the imple
nent, and threatened to beat him if
ne couldn't keep up with men who
had two good arms. Watson said he
testified before the Grand Jury, and
before that he was water boy After
he came back, he said, a guard came
10 him and said Captain Thomason
mad ordered him under the gun again.
I was whipped once" said Wat
son, because l had a blister on my
loot and my shoe was too tight, and
cut 1t so | could walk. l was also
whipped because I complained one
cay when 1t was cold and my arm
hurt My arm hurts all the time, but
,lAey won't do anything for IT,"
remarks made by the men on the
Evansville works proved the suspi-
zion that had been in the minds of
some Of the members of the investi-
eating party-that the camp had been
prepared for the coming of the inves-
tigstors.
Food Improved Suddenly.
We knew somebody was coming
"'oay' said Rube Mitchell, who Is
serving SeVen-vear hit "for the food