Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-05
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r4teen minutes. The probers refused
- make public the stories told by
.be convicts, but one of them, H. d.
E7emings, whose sentence will expire
In twelve days, told the newspaper
men his story when he came out.
Here 1t is:
,T am serving my first term" he
said 'T was sent up for assault to
murder. We are treated little better
than dogs here, although the new
warden Mr.. Clark, appears to want
N do the right thing. Guards have
.,,rsed me and applied vile epithets
"a nv mother, and if l objected
was whipped. 1 was flogged on my
hare skin in June, and to this day
AMI know what l was whipped for
we seen guards come into the camp
staggering under the influence OF
uhisty and once l saw a guard
drinking. He offered me drink and
cnrss me when l refused.
Made to Work While III.
"One day last summer l got sick
during the work and Charley Wood, d
gnard who Is a brute, wouldn't let me
~ DOWN,
cause was sick, and the Jack man,
Santsin Thomson, came and cursed
me and said there was nothing the
matter with me
ION another occa sion Charley Wood
,,sda me climb down off the bank,
rher. I had fallen because l was SO
sick and made ME get into the cut
ord On 10 work. ! could hardly stand
and 40 couldn't see, but he held me
Under the gun and made me swing a
THE day I was whipped-for what
reason I DO not know-other men
we're logged for the same reason
Among them were Guy Forester, Joe
Owens, John Lively and man we
nall "F1fteen Cents" whose real name
do not know l worked all the day
before and worked hard, for I've
worked hard ever since I 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!
II got seven lashes and Guy For
roster got fifteen. The other men got
from Ave to ten each"
Frank Huseman, a 16-year- old boy
who is serving a two-year sentence
for larceny, showed q hand that was
covered with the remains of g bad
abscess. He said the guards had
made MIN work when the sore was al
its worst stage, with no protection
other than a rough and dirty rag.
Ben Cohen said he had beer
whipped once during his six months
term for laziness
God knows" he said, that I work
as hard as can. I'm not the strong
est man in the world and I can't
stand everything. I do my best, but
they whipped me because 1 couldn't
do more
Tales of brutality were told when
the Investigators went to the Adams
4 vile works. the stretch of road
where the men under the gun were
working
They found r. E. Watson there, a
boy whose left arm is useless, dried
and shriveled from the effects Of q
4 gunsh1J wound.
Works With One Arm.
He said that, although the doctor
had said he was not able to handle g
shovel guards had forced him tc
4 work under the gun with the imple-
4 ment, and threatened to beat him Il
he couldn't keep up with men who
had two good arms. Watson said he
testified before the Grand Jury, anG
before that he was water boy. After
he came back, he said, a guard came
10 him and said Captain Thomasor
mad ordered him under the gun again
was whipped once" said Wat
son, because l had q blister on my
loot and my shoe was too tight, and
cut It SO ! could walk I was also
whipped because I complained one
gay when ii was cold and my arm
hprt. MY arm hurts all the time, bu
Wey 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 o.
some OF the members of the investi-
gazing party-that the camp had beer
prepared for the coming of the inves-
tigators
Food Improved Suddenly.
We knew somebody was COMING
U-aay' said Rube Mitchell. who Is
serving a seven-y year bit, for the fooc