Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-13
NJ KEEL v A !
WAS GUEST
0F N|OYER
Expert investigator" Said to
Have Spent Most Of His
Time Visiting.

The inside story Of the "lnVestiga-
ton" of the Atlanta Federal Prison,
which DR.. A, ]. McKelway, a child
labor expert Of Washington, has Just
completed with the application of a
liberal coat of whitewash for Warden
William H, Meyer and his assistants,
was told TO The Georgian Tuesday
morning by a guard at the peniten-
tiary, who refused to allow his name
to be made public, because, he said,
his Job wouldn't be worth a plugged
nickel if the warden knew he had
squealed.'
The disclosures of DR.. McKelway's
unique methods of investigating will
be forwarded at once to Congressman
William Schley Howard, who Is de-
termined to force a Congressional In
Vestigation of the institution.
The guard declared he is willing to
testify regarding conditions at the
prison. and also to certain incidents
that are said to have colored DR., Me-
Kelway's investigation" If Mr.. How
ard thinks such a course necessary.
Calls Probe a FARGO. -~-
the guard characterized DR.. Nc
Kelvays probe of the prison as an
"abominable farce" and declared that
he made only the most superficial sort
Of an investigation, without any at
tempt to delve into conditions as they
really exist. He declared also that
during his stay in Atlanta DR.. Nc
Kelway was an honored guest at the
Wardens home, and that the pair
seemed to be very much together ana
were very friendly. He told also OF
he and other guards seeing the
warden and the investigator" clink-
Ing their glasses over the festive
board.
At the Piedmont Hotel, where Dr.
McKelway was registered, 1t was
stated that he was rarely seen about
the hotel, and he never answered the
phone in his room. On one occasion
letter lay in his box for more than
two days before he called for it.,
lntimation, however, that real IN
vestigation of the prison is being
made is contained in the statement OF
the guard that Burns detective mas
been working as a guard for the past
several weeks and is quietly gather
ing evidence regarding the real con-
ditions at the prison. Who the Burns
man is working for the guard says no
one knows, but it is not thought he is
an agent of the Department of JUS
tice as Attorney General McReynolds
mas apparently been very favorable 10
Warden Meyer throughout the aglta-
ton.
The guard declared that Dr. NC
heway hadn't been in the prison nj
Teen minutes before everybody there
knew who he was and what he had
come for, and the word went quietly
forth that they must be very circum-
spect in their conduct while the in
'estigator" was around.
Or. McKelway was there ten days
said the guard, land all the real In
Vestigating he did could have been
Gone in an hour and a half. He
never talked to any of the guards
and he talked to the prisoners for
only 40 minutes. and that was just be-
lore he left Atlanta last Saturday
night. He then left the Warden's
once, where he had been closeted
with Mr.. Meyer for an hour or so,
ana went upstairs into the dollhouse
with a notebook in his hand.
He stopped in front of half doz-
en- cells and asked some Of the men a
rev questions, putting something
GOWN in his notebook. He did that
rom 8 o'clock to $40, and then he
and the Warden went over to the
"arden's home. At 10 o'clock DR..
Nckelway caught a car and went TO
atlanta, and l understood he left
'own that night.
Spends Time With Meyer.
When DIR. McKelway first came 20
'ne prison, he was in Warden Meyers