Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-14
GUARD TELLS Of
FARC|CALPR0bE
At PRISON
Continued From Page I.

warden and tn. 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
letter lay in his box for more than
two days before he called for Il.
Intimation, however, that a real IN
vestigation of the prison is being
made is contained in the statement of
the guard that a Burns detective has
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 1t Is not thought he is
an agent of the Department of JUS
tce, as Attorney General McReynoldS
has apparently been very favorable to
Warden Meyer throughout the agita-
ton
The guard declared that DR. Nc
Kelway hadn't been in the prison fif-
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 I'm
vestigator" was around.
''Dr. McKelway was there ten days"
said the guard, land all the real in
vestigating he did could have been
done 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-
fore he left Atlanta last Saturday
night. He then left the Warden's
office, where he had been closeted
with Mr. Meyer for an hour or so,
and went upstairs into the dollhouse
with a notebook in his hand.
Spends Time With Meyer.
He stopped in front of half doz-
en- cells and asked some of the men a
few questions, putting something
down in his notebook. He did that
from o'clock to $40, and then he
and the Warden went over to the
Warden's home. At 10 o'clock DR.
McKelway caught a car and went to
Atlanta, and I understood he left
town that night
when DR.. McKelway first came to
the prison, he was in Warden Meyers
office for some time. l don't know,
and none of the other guards ever
found out, what he told Mr.. Meyer
ne was .lneTe 1OT. lie got INTO con-
versation with several of the guards,
including myself, the first day or two
he was there, and told us he was
child labor expert, laughing when he
said 1t. He said he was investigating
the system we used in working the
men. hoping to apply it in some way
to his child labor work. That struck
me as silly, and it struck some of the
other guards the same way.
Or. Mckelway had access to all
parts of the prison, but most of the
time he was accompanied by the
Deputy Warden or one of the three
captains, who, l suppose. helped him
investigate. We used to see him
walking about the yard, looking at
the prisoners. and being shown over
the prison by the officials, but If he
ever talked to any of the prisoners,
except the few he talked to in the 40
minutes Saturday night, none of the
guards saw him do l..
"McKelway would walk about the
prison during the day, in company
with the Warden, and then in the
evening he would go into the War
denis private office and, I suppose,
look over the files and records OF the
institution. I know he looked over
the suspension papers of the seven
guards who were discharged, but
don't suppose he found anything. The
papers never told the real reason why
those men were fired.
in the evening Dr. McKelway. aft
er working in the warden's Office