Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-19
FLORIDA SHERIFF
GOT $23 FOR EACH
CONVICT HE LEASED
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ganization would like to conduct an
investigation.
He denied emphatically that he
had entered into a contract with the
Seaboard Air Line railway to arrest
all men beating their way on trains
for which he was to receive a fee.
The sheriff also denied that a man
walking along the highway was sub
ject to arrest, and further denied
that he Or his deputies waited in
the woods along the highway to cap
ture men on the charge OF vagrancy
He was asked whether any agree
ment had been made between him
and the county judge on sentencing
men charged with riding freight
trains and for vagrancy. The ques,
ton appeared to make the sheriff
angry, and he made an emphatic
denial.
Sheriff's Fees
The last question asked the sher-
if was if he received a fee for
bringing a prisoner before the court
He replied that he received 81 per
diem now, but that when he first
entered office ne was receiving 81
for each prisoner. II found out
after making inquiry that 81 for
each prisoner was not exactly right
so just now am getting 81 for each
court day"
Deputy Sheriffs P. L. Barrineau
and Jackson Gray told the commit.
tee that Sheriff Jones was receiV-
ing $40 for each prisoner delivered
to the Putnam company, but that
they were paid regular salaries, and
did not receive any part of it.
Deputy Sheriff Gray said that it
was he who wrote the letter tc
the North Dakota attorney relative
to the telegram by order of the
sheriff. He said that the sheriff
read the letter and signed it.
Judge Benjamin Franklin Willis
county judge, testified before the
committee as to fees he received
and to having sentenced Tabert
after the latter had entered a plea
of guilty.
The hearing recessed until after.
noon, while A B. Shivers, of Doe
run, Ca, a former guard at the
convict camp, was on the stand.
YOUTH TELLS OF FLOGGING
AT SENATOR KNABB'S CAMP
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April IT,
Alleging that he had been flogged by
a heavy belt while in the convict
turpentine camp of Senator T. J.
Knabb, until his condition had be-
come so severe that he was removed
| by a state prison inspector, Paul
White, seventeen-yearo youth, of
Washington, D. C., today had placed
in the hands Of state authorities AN
affidavit setting forth additional de-
tails of alleged mistreatment.
Among other things in his state
ment and affidavit, White said he
had been forced, while unable be-
cause of lack of physical strength,
to drag a "scrape-box from tree to
tree through the swamps, bays,
branches, Shiny creeks and through
waist deep water" He sets forth
that he was beaten the third day
after he had been sentenced to the
camp on Vagrancy charge, and al
most every day thereafter.
White, IN his affidavit, set forth
that often he had been forced to put
on wet clothes on arising, despite
cold mornings. He said that he was
beaten while spraddled across a log,
and that even after his "hands and
feet were about rotted and I was
so weak L could hardly wabble
around, he beat me just the same,
kicked and struck me with his fist"
White charges in his document
that Senator Knabb sent for him
some time after the state prison in
spector had seen his condition at
the camp, and that he went to
Knabb's home, where he was kept,
he asserted, in the hope that he
crld flee before his condition could
be noted. White said he was later
taken to the MacClenny jail.