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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
% MORE BANKS
ALL OVER j. 5.
BOOST CITY
National Institutions Include At
Ianta in Argument To Be Of
fered Reserve Board.

Twenty eight more national banks,
in all parts of the United States
not one of them in Georgia-sent in
to the regional bank committee in
Atlanta the news that they had chos-
en- this city as the site for the South
eastern reserve bank. in proposing to
the National Organization Board their
ideas on the way in which the coun-
try should be districted.
With the 81 received Thursday, a
total of IS national banks now have
informed the national committee of
their belief that Atlanta should be
selected for one of the regional re-
serve institutions
Following are the banks, by States,
which have Endorsed Atlanta 8
NEW YORK = First National,
BONNEVILLE; Union. Schenectady;
Nichols, Nichols; Citizens, Poland;
First, Geneva; City, Watertown: Ma
tonal Bank of New Berlin, New
Berlin; First National, Perry.
NEW HAMPSHIRE armington
National, Pennington; Somersworth,
SomersYorth.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

Bellwood camps, respectively, as the
perpetrators Of the outrages. These
men have not heretofore been men
toned in connection with the investi-
cation.
Here IS Davis story:
II was released Just before Christ
mas, after | had served nine months
and sixteen days. I was whipped
four times during the time | was
there, getting % ashes twice, ten
once and fifteen the fourth time, each
flogging being on my bare back.
Il don't know yet why 1 was
beaten
Il went to Bellwood camp first,
where Captain Jones is in charge We
We're put to work on the North ave-
nue. improvement, and about the sec
ond month l was there. late one after
noon, the guard, John Robinson
cursed me and said l didn't work hard
enough. I worked as hard as I could,
and told him l was doing my best.
The next morning Captain Jones
whipped me twice, without making
any investigation or asking me what
l had done
Given Twenty five Blows.
He brought the blood, and he made
big welts on my body the first time
he whipped me. l started to count
the lashes, but after l had received
eighteen or twenty felt so weak
ana the pain was so great l lost
count. Some of the men who saw
1t said he gave me % ticks. After
he whipped me, Captain Jones turned
away and l dragged myself to my
feet and started to put on my cloth
ing. ! hadn't finished when he came
back
'JXyott n ,,,t-,,4. -. L,..J. -.
yelled I'm no. through with you yeti
He made me take off nv clothing
again and gave me ten more lashes
on my bare back.
when he brought down the lash
on me again the pain was more than
| could stand and | put my hand be-
hind me and tried to protect my body
with the back of my hand. The heavy
whip struck It, and broke several of
the bones.M I didn't know what was
the matter with my hand for several
days. until II began to swell up al
most twice as large as it should have
been. | finally found out it was
broken. and told the guard. He said
it ought to have been broken, and
made me keep on working with It.
Il was sent to the Miner camp then
under Captain Collier Nv hand was
in bad shape. and I couldn't do as
m0ch work as some of the men who
were not injured. although | did all
that I could They didn't think I did
enough, though, and Captain Collier
gave me % lashes when a guard re-
ported me. A few days later he gave
me I 5 llcks
I've seen dozens of men at Bell
wood and Miner camps whipped until
somebody would have to help them
to bed. l saw one body whipped so
hard he couldn't stand to have his
clothing rubbing against his body,
there were 80 b}Any cuts and bruises
on it. I remember another man, John
James. VINO died last year from the
effects of the beatirgs he received.
The Guard Robinson used to have
James whipped almost every day, and
finally James back got lame and he
was taken to the hospital. where he
died"
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criminals than against the State.
Lash Must Go, He Declares.

The present abominable system, -
said Mr.. Weltner, 'degrades both
guards and convicts into brutes. and
is fundamentally wrong.
The lash, the stripes and the chains
must 60 and even though this would
mean additional guards the State is
well able to hire them on account
Of the free labor it gets from the con-
victs"
1t was intimated that Mr.. Weltner
will make a direct request that the
Grand Jury urge the adjustment of
the lash and the other things that
have made the torture OF prisoners
a fine art in the county camps.
And n view OF the attitude taken
by the Grand Jury in conducting its
probe, It is generally conceded that
the matter will be given much con-
sideration.
Horrible as have been the tales of
convicts brought before the Grand
Jury. stories were told Thursday aft
ernoon and Friday morning Of con-
ditions that are even worse.
Weltner Denounces System.
Mr.. Weltner, in his speech to the
Brotherhood Of St Andrew at the
Church of the Incarnation, branded
as almost high treason the hiring by
the State of Georgia of convict guards
and wardcn5 who can not run g camp
without the lash, and denounced the
present penal system as one which
degrades into brutes both the pris-
oners and their keepers. Mr.. Welt
rer also brought to task the church
for not revolving against the horrible
conditions now existing in the Full
ton County camps.
Tells of BrutaIties.
The speaker described the condi-
ton of a few of the convicts who
were brought before the Grand Jury,
how men were brutally beaten when
sick and how they were whipped I'M
mercifully for missing the lick" in
their work. He told of the death of a
little daughter of one Of the convicts.
The present abominable system,
concluded the speaker which de-
grades Doth conviSts and guards into
brutes, is fundamentally wrong. All
good citizens must arise and correct
It. Already there are more crimes
committed against the criminals thar
against the State
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Grand Jury Begins Probe
Of ROseIdnd Camp Abuses

Fresh tales Of intolerable cruelty in
Fulton Countys convict camps had
been heard by the members OF the
Grand Jury when adjournment was
taken Friday afternoon. New wit
nesses will be summoned for the
hearing which will be resumed next
Tuesday morning at 10 CLOCK,
New indictments were looked for
Friday on the stories told by six ne
gro convicts from the Roseland camp
of which a. NJ. Luck was the foreman
until his dismissal Thursday by the
County Board OF Commissioners.
When adjournment was taken, how
ever. no announcement was made OF
any true bills.
Within a few minutes after Perry
craig one of the Convicts had ap-
peared before the jury end exhibited
Welts and bruises from recent whip
pings and sears from older ones. So
llcifor Dorsey was called into the
Grand jury room, presumably for the
purpose OF deciding on the 5dvisibiiity
Of drawing up indictments against the
camp employees thought to be re-
sponsible for the alleged cruelties
Prefers DeKalb Camps.
BY Dorsey Richardson, negro,
serving a three months sentence at
the Roseland camp, the Jurors were
told that he much rather would serve
nineteen months in the DeKalb Coun-
ty changing than three months I'M
der Captain Luck.
Richardson. il appeared, was a ne
gro of wide experience in chaingang
service He said that he had served
a year in Cobb County and nineteen
months with the men in stripes In
DeKalb County. Then he was sent to
Luck's camp.
He told Friday OF the punishments
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
T RIES
AT JUAREZ.


FIRST-Selllng; purse, 2-year- olds;
furlongs: Daisy stevns 1O5, Lady Capri
cious lis, Blue Racer lis, Supremacy
100. xXDoctor Gatlin 10s, xxSerf Savin
11S.
XXI. F. Newman & Sons entry.
SECOND-Selling; 4-year-olds and
up; l lie miles: Rose O'Neil los, Flor
ence Birch 105, Philistina los, Rake 1917
STARTER 10, Miletus ITO, Ursula Emma
10, Gelico 112, Miami 112, Hardy 49,
Balcliff 112, Uncle Ben 112, Sim Fein
lis. Great Jubilee lis.
THIRD-Selling; 3-year-olds and up;
mile: Lenshen's Pride 81. Mystic Boy
SO, Angie D SO, Patrick F SO, Marie
Coghill1 05, Frieze 105, Tom Murph LOT.
Regina Arvi 10. Downland ITO. Nc
Alan 112.
FOURTH-Six furlongs; 3-year- olds;
Little VIII 100, Manganese 102. F'lorin
10s, Milton Roblee 105.
FIFTH-Selling; 3-year-olds and up:
furiongs: Kenneth 81, Upland King
1o2, Rubicon II 1903. Fleuron II 105, In
Ian 105, Transparent los, Gold OF Ophir
10s, FRAGILE Iii.
SIXTH-Selling; 3-year- olds and up;
mile: Old Gotch 80, Eva Tanguay 105,
Nino Muchacho 107, Clinton 107, Ruvoco
107, Joe Woods 112, Marshal Tilghman
49, Vanhorn 112, Anon 112, The Monk
112
Weather clear. Track fast.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

Observation-Disclosures D..
of Slatington, Slatington; Va1derhn.,
First National, Ulster; First Maj
al, Hamburg.
INDIANA-Delphi.
NEBRASKA-First National ~,
ca. ~
ILLINoIs-state National, Bloom.
ington.
Observation-Disclosures Citv ".
tional. Delaware City.
MICHIGAN-First National Ne.
shall; Hackley, Muskegon; Seen,
Saginaw. '0iu
IOWA-F1rst, Malvern; Merchsr..
Cedar Rapids; First, Mason Citv
RHODE ISLAND-Ashaway Az
away. --'''
Observation-Disclosures Ado.
National, North Adams; HadIey Fs1a
Holyoks; Leominster, Leomins-sra,
First, Marlboro; Manufacture,
North Attleborough.
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that were melted out, there. He said
that he had seen the whipping OF
Andrew Clark, who was given 80
lashes for a most trivial infraction of
the rules Clark, he said was beaten
until he collapsed, and has been laid
up ever isnce. having been transfer
red to the Bellwood camp because OF
his inability to work.
John Cox, another negro convict,
was treated with even greater saw
agery according to Richardson.
Kicked and Lashed.
They handcuffed his hands be
hind him" said the witness. Then
they bent him double and kept him
that way with pickhandle. one OF
the guards kicked him over on the
ground and they began lashing him.
Nearly every lick broke open the
skin. BY the time they got through
Cox was covered with blood and
bruises He screamed and yelled for
mercy, but IT seemed as though they
beat him all the harder.
out there they kick and curse you
If they think you are not doing enough
work. The guards are swearing at
the men all the time, | never have
been whipped in the short time
have been there, but | complained of
being sick one morning and the guard
swore at me and said that he would
see that | got some medicine. He
meant the whipping strap
Tells of Work for Donadsons.
Convict Alon2o Woodson was ques-
toned by the Grand Jury as to work
that he had done at the home of Cap
tain r. j. Donaldson, deposed super
lntendent of the Department Of Public
Works, and at the home of the cap
tain's brother, 81 Donaldson. Wood
son said hat he had worked for the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
AT CHARLESTON,

f1RST-Three-y ear-olds and UP, sell
ing, purse $500, six furlongs: xCastara
SO, xAgnier 106, Old Jordan 90, Nimbus
lib, Ada 95. xDr. Dougherty III. xScar-
let Pimpernel Ill, Province 10, xChiet
Maid 49, Bertis 116. xViley 1903, Tony
w 113. Raleigh p D. lie. Mama John
son 1903, Font 113.
SECOND-Three- year olds and up
handicap, selling, purse $500, six fur
longs. Supreme "a, Linbrook 9S, Syl-
vestris 1903, Marshon 102. Rye Straw 107
Flying Yankee 100, Robert Bradley 105
Feather Buster 106 Salon 90.
THIRD-Calhoun stakes, two-year-
olds, selling, $1,000, four furlongs; Elec-
trician liz, Idiola 10. Norma L. l07
Emerson Cochran Iii, Hapsburg II. 1914
FOURTH-Palmetto handicap, three
year-Oids and UP, purse $500, mile and
20 yards aRepublican us, aBob r.
chiel 105, Sleeth 104, Deposit 90 (aTai-
bot entry; hBedwell entry)
F1FTH-Three-y year olds and up sell
ing, purse $780, mile xOtranto 49,
xRoseburg II. 107, xSnowfakes 1902
Benedictina 115, xFrog 1907. xSteal Away
107. Ruisseau 112, Votes 1917 Batoucil
109. XEeneta Strome loo. Silicic 112
XPatty Regain 81, Volthorpe lis, Tom
King 112, Coreopsis 112.
SIXTH-Three-y year olds and up, SELL
ing, purse $3.50, mile and 20 yards:
quet 81, Cockspur III. xEl ORC 100
xMaster Jim 107. Marshon 112, Merry
Lad 116, xFord Mai 104, xKinder Lou
100, xBillie Baker 104.
XApprentice allowance.
Weather cloudy; track muddy.
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two since last July, mostly for he
later. He said that he had done all
sorts OF work, from sweeping about
the house and washing dishes to TAX
ing care Of 81 Donaldson's horse.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
Brutality Laid to
Two More CAPTAINS.

Stories Of hendish tortures and of
being whipped with a leather strar
studded with copper rivets so that
the bones of his left hand were shat
tered with one blow Of the lash, were
uufolded Friday morning by Charles
Davis, a negro who served nine
months Of a twelve-month sentence
in the Bellwood and Miner convict
camps of Fulton County.
Davis told also of another convict,
Jonn James, being whipped every
morning for a month, until he finally
became so weak and lame in his back
that he was taken to the hospital
where he died in few days from the
effects of the terrible beatlngs he
had received.
The tales told by Davis involve
Deputy Wardens F. C. Collier and
Oscar f. Jones. captains of Miner and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

two since last July, mostly for he
later. lie said that he had done all
sorts OF work, from sweeping about
the house and washing dishes to TAX
ing care Of 81 Donaldson's horse.
Quiz Turns to Donaldson.
The Grand Jury's Investigation
Friday also turned toward Captain
Donaldson and his brother, ST. in re
gard to their alleged use of county
convicts and supplies.
Captain Luck was asked about the
use OF Alonzo Woodson, a negro. who
was hostler for Captain Donaldson.
w. II, Smith, for three years a guard
at Bellwood, was asked about the de-
livery Of a wagonload Of feedstuffs to
the Donaldson home
w. c. Townley. sixteen years 8
guard at Bellwood and employed there
now, was questioned along similar
lines. The Grand Jury evidently was
determined to find out if there was
any criminal culpability in the habit
various county officials had of using
county supplies,
All the negroes in the waiting
room at Grand Jury headquarters
Friday morning denounced Guard Gus
Suttles at Roseland camp as cruel
were unmerciful in their treatment
OF them
One negro, Perry Craig. said that
Suttles. in a fit OF anger a few days
ago. struck him over the head with
a rock. Craig also said Suttles would
report him 70 Captain Luck for no
reason at all, and that Luck then
void whip MIN.
Fiogged Twice in Week.
Craig said he has been in the
camp for three weeks and has been
logged twice for alleged laziness in
one week
All the negroes but one, namel
Alon2o Woodson, said they would tell
the Grand jury how they had been
fiogged on their naked flesh
Craig said he could show long,
broad unhealed scars on his back
where Captain Luck had whipped
him with the big leather strap stud
ded with brass rlvets
All the negroes said the food they
are given at Roseland is unfit TO eat.
They reiterated the stories of bad
food told by white convicts from
Adamsville
Luck Denies Charges.
The names of the negroes who Fri
day are testifying before the Grand
Jury are Perry Craig, burglary:
Charles Edwards shooting; Dorsey
Richardson, larceny; Jim owens.
fighting Frank Rice. larceny and
Alcnzo Woo lson. practicing medicine
without a license.
Captain Luck, who has been dis
charged for the employ Of the coun-
ty, denies that there is any truth in
the statements of the negroes. He
viii tell his story to the jury.
Indications that the Grand Jury at
the close of It's probe will be asked
to recommend the adjustment Of the
lash and stripes, and the hiring of
intelligent and merciful men as
guards. are found in statements by
Philip Weltner secretary of the Geor-
gia Prison Reform Association, at a
meeting Of the Brotherhood of St. An
drew Of the Church of the Incarna-
tion, Thursday night, that more
crimes are committed against the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
REFORMERS LIKELY To
DEMAND LASH ABOLITION

room and make I'VE of US battle in
the same water in a barrel cut half
IN two. Then, IL we didn't get out
and dressed as quick as the guards
thought We ought TO, the whipping
boss would come in amongst us Just
like he would amongst a bunch of
cattle. and the way he would lay
about him with that strap on thoee
bare bodies was a sin. He could make
a man jump six feet with one cut of
the cursed thing
I've seen the guards at Buckhead
come into the camp house at night
roaring drung and beat up the pris-
oners just because they could"
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READY.T0-WEAR BARGAINS

ALL-WOOL SKIRTS
I AIDES allwool serge and fancy skirts in all the
L. newest styles and worth up to $50 in this last day
of Clearance Sale only $2.98
LINENE SHIRT WAISTS
I AIDES white embroidered linene shirt waists,
- worth Sl0O. Clearance price Saturday only 25c.
SILK MESSALINE WAISTS.
I AIDES beautiful silk messaine waists in all the
- newest styles. These good $500 values Your
choice Saturday only $1.90.
SILK MESSALINE PETTICOATS
AIDES all silk messaline petticoats in all colors
Il that are and popular, and worth $500 Satur-
day only, $3.50.
LADIES HAT SHAPES
nut with all the ladies' hats Beautiful shapes worth
~ $500 and $500. To close the lot quick only &c.
LADIES DRESS HATS.
AIDES beautiful dress hats all beautifully trim
L. med. Worth $500 to $1,000. To go at $1.OO.
CHILDREN'S WASH DRESSES.
q HILDREN'S wash dresses made of best percale
- and gingham, sizes to years, and worth SOC,
only 19c.
LADIES' UNDERWEAR
AIDES separate vests and pants and fleece lined
IL vests and pants worth Soc Saturday garment 19c
FIGURED CREPE KIMONOS.
| AIDES long figured crepe kmonos, worth 81 so to
- $500 In this sale only $50.
BOYS WOOL SUITS
: ROYS Atwood suits, in sizes TO- IL and ii years
d. worth up to $500, to close out quick but 98c
Store Open Until Ten o'clock Saturday Night
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Continued From Page I.

wasn't any covering on his back
when they did 1t, either
They say the prisoners food is
good at these camps. l want to tell
you that when l was in charge OF the
county automobiles at the county
commissary in 1911 that all the good
meat went to Tom Donaldson and
the county officials, and all the rot
ten stuff went TO the prisoners.
I'VE used to have fine time when
we went to take a bath. They would
herd about fifty OF us into little
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

y 10 Lasles Makes Floggng Farce Says Suspended Boss

A foreman the oekndc ymatis
in tn camps heS State
now muhof farce because we allowed
is 70 land desperate
no JUS laugh h pumshm
have been in Hanyhng has madeline oenent
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

dawnbl The habee iveJu
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thar whipping
Thoroughly
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-29
ROAD BUILDERS IN MOVIES.

Films illustrating Work on Highways
Of Iowa Make Hit.
Special to Times-Republican.
Ames. Oct. 2s.-1owa road builders
were seen for the first time in moving
pictures during the past week in Ames.
The moving picture film which has
been made during the past summer by
the highway commission has been
completed and given it's first tryout. II
made a decided hit. The pictures show
gasolene tractors pulling blade and
elevating graders. loading wagons and
building grades, team wheel scrapers'
outfits making cuts and fills. There
Is a section devoted to Bridge Day at
Eldora, when the longest bridge in the
state was dedicated and another to tie
Great White Way picnic at Musca-
tine last August. The film ends with
a set OF splendid scenes of the Mar
shall county steam shovel making a cut
on the Lincoln Highway.
In few days there will be an ad-
ditional section showing the building
Of the mile and quarter of concrete
road in Louisa county at Columbus
Junction. Fran time to time other
road building features will be added
from other sections of the state. The
film requires about eighteen minutes to
run. Its use is given free to the mov-
ing picture houses who desire to run
it. The film was made by Professor
Colburn of the photo section of the
Iowa State College
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