Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-13
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WAS GUEST
IF |N|()YE:R
Expert "Investigator" Said to
Have Spent Most Of His
Time Visiting.

The inside story of the mnvestiga-
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-
uarv, who refused to allow his name
to be made public, because. he said,
lis job wouldn't be worth a plugged
nickel If the warden knew he had
souealed."
wEe disclosures of DR.. McKelway's
unique methods of investigating will
he forwarded at once to Congressman
william schley Howard, who is de-
'srmined to force a Congressional in
yestigation 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.. Nc
Eelways investigation" if Mr.. How
s~d thinks such course necessary
Calls Probe a Farce.
Inc guard characterized DR.. Me-
Kelways probe of the prison as an
'abominable farce" and declared that
Re 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 DIR. NC
Eelway was an honored guest at the
Nardens home, and that the pair
seemed to be very much together and
We're 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, it was
stated that he was rarely seen about
the hotel, and he never answered the
phone in his room. On one occasion
a letter lay in his box for more than
two days before he called for it.
Intimation, however, that a real IN
Nestigation of the prison is being
made is contained in the statement OF
the guard that a Burns detective haf
been working as a guard for the pas
several weeks and is quietly gather
ing evidence regarding the real con
lttions at the prison. Who the Burns
man Is working for the guard says nc
one knows, but it is not thought he il
an agent of the Department of JUS
tce, as Attorney General McReynoidi
las apparently been very favorable u
Warden Meyer throughout the aglta'
lion.
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 haC
come for, and the word went quietly
forth that they must be very circum
spect in their conduct while the IN
Festigator" was around.
DR.. McKelway was there ten days
said the guard, land all the real in
Festigating he did could have beef
done in an hour and a half. III
never talked to any of the guards
and he talked to the prisoners 10
only 40 minutes, and that was just be
lore he left Atlanta last Saturda'
night He then left the Warden
once, where he had been closete'
with Mr. Meyer for an hour or SO
and went upstairs into the cellhous'
with notebook in his hand.
Spends Time With Meyer.
He stopped in front of half a doz
eh cells and asked some of the men
Few questions. putting sometime
down in his notebook. He did tina
rom s o'clock to $40, and then h
and the Warden went over to tn
Warden's home. At 10 o'clock D'
Ackelway caught a car and went t
Atlanta, and l understood he LET
town that night.
When DR.. McKelway first came Z
the prison, he was in Warden Meyer
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