Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-04
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.s.oo, minutes. The probers refused
- make public the stories told by
-. ,,rvicts. but one of them, H. d.
,,,,-,,irgs whose sentence will expire
=, evolve DAYS, told the newspaper
,,,,, his story when he came out.
Here it is;
81 am serving my first term" he
aid 81 was sent up for assault to
,orrder We are treated little better
.ban dogs here, although the new
r.,den Mr. Clark, appears to want
% 10 the right thing. Guards have
s,,-sed me and applied vile epithets
~ INV mother, and if | objected |
vas whipped. I was logged on my
10 skin in June, and to this day
Ian't know what ! was whipped for.
1,,.a saan guards come into the camp
l.oggsrlng under the influence of
,.5isIv and once l saw a guard
arint;nc He offered me drink and
RS me when ! refused.
Made to Work While Ill.,
"One dav last summer | got sick
curing the work and Charley Wood, d
gnsrd who is a brute, wouldn't let me
e. ,,ovu The next day | laid in, be-
oaree was sick, and the Jack man,
Csn+ain Thomson, came and cursed
me and said there was nothing the
matter with me.
"On another occasion Charley Wood
made me climb down off the bank,
uhere I had fallen because | was so
sick and made me get into the cut
and On 10 work. I could hardly stand
and so couldn't see, but he held me
under the gun and made me swing a
shovel
THE dav I was whipped-for what
ruoson I do not know-other men
we're logged for the same reason.
Among them were Guy Forester, Joe
ovens. John Lively and a man we
call Fifteen Cents" whose real name
10 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.
81 got seven lashes and Guy For
roster got fifteen. The other men got
from IlNt ~ ttll C1tis
16-Year-Old Boys Story.
Frank Huseman, a 16year- old boy
who Is serving a two-year sentence
for larceny. showed hand that was
covered with the remains of bad
aoscess He said the guards had
made MIN work when the sore was at
It's worst stage, with no protection
other than q rough and dirty rag.
Ben Cohen said he had been
whipped once during hisl six months
term for laziness.
God knows he said, that I work
as hard as l can. I'm not the strong
est man In the world and I can't
stand everything. l 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. z. Watson there,
boy whose left arm is useless, dried
and shriveled from the effects of
gunshoI wound.
Works With One Arm.
He said that, although the doctor
had said he was not able to handle a
shovel guards had forced him to
work under the gun with the imple-
ment, and threatened to beat him if
ne couldn't keep up with men who
mad two good arms. Watson said he
testified before the Grand Jury, and
4 before that he was water boy After
ne came back, he said, a guard came
10 MIN and said Captain Thomson
nad ordered him under the gun again
was whipped once" said Wat
son, because ! had a blister on my
loot and my shoe was too tight, and |
cut II so I could walk. l was also
whipped because ] complained one
cav When 1t was cold and my arm
hurt. My arm hurts all the time, but
'Hey won't do anything for it
remarks made by the men on the
Evansville works proved the suspi-
cIon that had been in the minds of
some of the members of the investi-
gaming party-that the camp had been
prepared for the coming of the inves-
Food Improved Suddenly.
We knew somebody was coming
quay said Rube Mitchell, who is
serving a seven-year bit, for the food