Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-24
7 / BOROUGH
INQUIRY IS
ORDERED
McReynoIds Not Satisfied With
McKeIway's Report on the At
Ianta Penitentiary.

Important developments in the agi-
tation for reforms at the Atlanta
Federal Penitentiary were reported
in dispatches from Washington to
The Georgian Friday Here they are:
1. Attorney General McReynolds
has decided that the inquiry made by
Special Agent DIR. A. J. McKelway
was insufficient and unsatisfactory,
being taken on ex parte testimony.
2. Major Henry Leonard, an expert
on penitentiary management. has
been named to make a thorough in
has instructed him to look into the
internal and external management of
the institution and to place every
phase of the matter before the De-
| partment of Justice. ~.
3. Congressman Oscar underwood,
the majority leader in the House, has
interested himself in the agitation
and believes the Democratic admin
istretion will make whatever changes
are necessary.
Meyer May Be Removed.
4. Indications are that Warden
William H. Meyer may be trans
ferred to some other post or lose out
altogether, although the warden is
exonerated of having had any hand
in the cruelties charged by various
prisoners.
5. Congressman William Schley
| Howard, satisfied with the new turn
the case has taken and confident that
the Department of Justice is determ-
ined on a real investigation, will with
hold the resolution he planned to in
troduce calling for a Congressional
inquiry.
6. Robert V. Ladow, superintendent
of Federal Prisons. who is said to be
slated for removal in the shakeup
that the Attorney General has plan
ned. probably will be succeeded by
Joseph f. Scott, of New York. long
identified with prison reform work
Scott formerly was president of the
American Prison Association and has
been superintendent of the New York
State reformitories.
Here Is the Washington dispatch
telling the latest developments:
WASHINGTON. Jan. 23.-The in
vestigation of the Federal prison at
Atlanta has been re-opened Not
satisfied with the report made by
Dr. A. j. McKelway, on ex parte te-
timony, believing that charges that
have been made from time to time
based on testimony both direct and
indirect and which have become pre-
ponderant, and deto mined that ev-
cry phase of the management of the
penitentiary shall be gone into, and
that it shall be made model insti-
tuition of the kind T.. the world. At
torney General McReynolds has Sc
lected Major Henry Leonard, who
will go to Atlanta and make com
plete investigation and make recon-
mendations for reforms.
Not Satisfied With Mekelway.
MAJOR Leonard Is u well known au-
thority on penal and criminal affairs
In the country. He is the man who
wa sent to the Fort Leavenworth
Penitentiary year ago after charges
and surcharges had been made of
loose and lax methods and lack of
proper discipline
Major Leonard was for years COM
mandant of the Naval Training
School at Portsmouth, N. II. He
now is a Washington attorney. He
has been selected by McReynolds,
after careful consideration, and is to
be armed with instructions TO go
to Atlanta and study the prison. both
internally and externally, and to place
every imaginable phase and feature
Of the situation into the equation.
McReynolds is not satisfied with the
McKelway report. In fact, he is not
satisfied with McKelway. The doc
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