Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-22
Boykir1 Springs
NetU Sensations
In Bur1co Case

Before an audience of a thousand
or more citizens, men and women,
assembled Saturday Afternoon in
Wesley Memorial church, 'olicttor
John Boykin repeated his charges
that the detective department of At
lanta allowed an organized gang OF
confidence men to conduct their
swindling operations in Atlanta f@~
more than four years without mole~-
tation, and allowed an organized
gang of gamblers to operate a big
gambling house in various down.
town buildings without molestation.
The meeting was called by the
Atlanta branch of the Atlanta
League of Women Voters. 1t was
intended at the outset to be
women's meeting-a meeting of the
members Of that organization. But
so much public interest was mani
tested in the meeting, explained
Miss Eleanor Raoul, chairman OF
the league, in her opening remarks,
that the league decided to make 1t
a general public meeting.
The size and spirit of the audience
that there was general public inter-
est. In the audience were members
of council, city firemen, one or two
city policemen, prominent business
men, ministers, lawyers, doctors, sew
eral members of the present grand
jury, and host of the city's leading
women citizens. They were not
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applause of the solicitors points, but
showed intense interest in what he
was saying.
Resolution Adopted
At the conclusion of his speech,
the meeting adopted the following
resolutions:
Whereas. we citizens of At
lanta in mass meeting assembled,
recognize the necessity Of imme-
date action upon the part of all
citizens for the protection of
their homes. their lives and their
property. therefore. be it re.
solved:
l. That we pledge our united
support TO Solicitor General Boy
kin and all public officers charg-
ed with responsibility in their
efforts for the preservation and
enforcement of law and order.
2. That we approve. endorse
and commend Solicitor General
Boykin and those cooperating
with him in the powerful and
vigorous fight against the pro-
fessional gamblers. murderers and
criminals of all classes that havs
recently infested our city; and
that we call upon all citizens of
this community and upon all
CIVIC. industrial and religious or
carnations to give their active
nnYf n f;rrl, e.. i
vention of the lives. homes and
property of our citizens
Solicitor Boykin's Charges
Brletly summarized, the charges
made by Solicitor Boykin before this
body Of citizens were as follows:
1. That the largest bunco ring
ever assembled in the United States
operated in Atlanta more than four
years, robbing their victims of hum
dreds of thousands of dollars, with
out molestation or interference by
the detective department.
z. mat the failure Of the detec-
tive department to break up the ring
was due either to connivance with
the ring or 10 utter incompetence.
3. That the grand jury disclosures
concerning the ring and the detec-
i've department, were ignored by the
police board because that body is
dominated by a political clique of
which Aldine Chambers and Lamar
4. That the bunco ring, of which
Floyd Woodward was the brains and
master, lnaugurated a conspiracy to
get rid of James l.. Beavers as chief
OF police; to put Lamar Poole in his
place, and to put Detective Il. d.
Shaw, an intimate friend of Wood
ward, at the head of the detectives
in place of Poole, and that Aldine
Chambers aided this conspiracy by
arranging for Beavers to be Offered
OF YHo OF
the federal prison.
Chambers Pardon Work
3. That Aldine Chambers tried to
get four notorious bunco men re-
er his success in getting the release
Of Won Rintelen, the German spy"
and that Floyd Woodwtrd was wait-
ing for them with jobs in his ring.
.. That the detective department.
ness to Floyd Woodward's killing
of Ed Mills in the Ansley hotel, on
bond of 5000, thereby making it
practically impossible for Solicitor
Boykin to gather the evidence on
der.
7. That J. C. Mcbride, head Of the
gambling department of Woodward's
ring, obtained a license to operate
the Sans Souci, a twenty-five-room
hotet without investigation by the
theW and later at 40 1-2 Central ave.
nue., and on Broad street, without
mole alton or interference, hauling
theh paraphernalia from place to
place.
8. That once when L. E. shumate.
IAN honest detective" raided the
place at 40 1-2 Central avenue, and
Detective Chief Poole took him off
the place and assigned Detectives
Terry and Howell, now under chain
gang sentence, to take charge of it,
and that Chief Poole subsequently
reduced the cash collateral of the
gambling house operators and play.
ers to $26 each, allowed them to for
felt the collateral without trial, and
returned to the operators their para
phernalia and the money seized by
Shumate.
duplicates Councilman Martin
y. That Councilman AL Martin.
who was then chairman of the pos
lice committee of council. which
position made him ex-officio mem
Der of lis police board, "hob-nobbed
with" the manager Of the. Coker
estate, to which the building at
49 1-2 Central avenue belongs. for
the purpose Of getting tenants ont
of the place so that the gambling
department of Woodward's ring
could move in.
1O.-That Mark TiIIery, who ia
now in Jail. and who originated the
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