Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-31
Sent After Chicken
For Sick Gang Guard,
Convict Keeps Going

TALLAHASSEE. Fla, July 3O.-A
sick guard at state road camp 81,
near Ebb, Fla. does not approve the
actions of Peter Foy, until last Sun
day one of the prisoners at the
camp.
Foy, said to be a native of Scot
land and 81 years old, was sent to
a farmhome in the neighborhood of
the camp to get a CHICKEN for Sun
day dinner for the sick guard, but
instead of returning with the fowl,
he disappeared and has not been
heard from since. Foy was sent up
from Duval county in January, 1923,
for three years for breaking and en-
tering.
meat and a truckload of soft drinks
/ to the Old Soldiers Home. The
meat and drinks were gifts to the
veterans from the ku klux Khan,
he said.
He declared that when he deliv-
cred this meat to the home Mr.. Nc
Allister told a cook to make sand
Wiches out of some of the meat be-
cause too much of it would make
the old soldiers sick. Mr.. Simmons
further testified that he saw some
of the meat made into sandwiches
and carried to a store which was
operated on the premises. He teS-
titled that upon going 10 the store
he bought one of these sandwiches
and one of the bottles of soft drinks
which he had brought to the home
for ten cents each. Mr.. Simmons
said that he was positive it was the
same meat and same bottle of soft
drink which had been donated by
the Khan.
w. e. HarWell testified that his
uncle had died at the home He
said that upon visiting his uncle at
the hospital, he had found condi-
| tions insanitary and that the pa
tients had been neglected in d
shameful fashion" On Christmas
day, said Mr.. Harwell, he visited the
hospital and found the rooms with
out heat.
l.. Il. F'urlow, a medical student
at Emory university, who serves as
| inferno at the Old Soldiers home
/ hospital, said that conditions at the
home were good and that the men
/ were very hard to handle as pa
! tents.
Says Patients Are Unruly
/ DR.. G.. w. Corley, who is en-
/ ployed us regular physician at the
/ home, told the committee that the
men were hard to handle as pa
tients and that medical students
made excellent attendants at the
home hospital. Graduate nurses.
/ said DR.. Corley. would not work
with patients as difficult as the vet
Grams.
DR.. l.. S. Patton, a former in
terne at the home hospital, testified
that the veterans got as good treat
ment as could be expected on the
finances allowed.
/ Jim Mills. an inmate of the home
1 for years, said that he had received
4 excellent treatment in every way.
A woman Who gave her name as
Mrs. Meeks. but who declined to
! give her initials or address, testified
/ that her uncle at the home had
been we'll treated and that the feel
ing of the veterans was lovely to-
/ ward the superintendent Mrs.
Meeks asserted the members Of the
/ L. d. {. were not doing anything
for the old soldiers.
Mrs. s. NJ. Card. a nurse at the
home hospital said that all possible
J WAS utIlS Aul tUG Veterans anu lIdl
extra help had now been obtained to
take care of them. Mrs. Card said
/ she was not q graduate nurse.
Howard Mcconnell. an inmate Of
the home. told of men being sent
/ away from the home because they
1 talked too much" and said that il
was the general impression in the
home that men were "intimidated'
ATr
. Council also said that he had seen
/ several cases Of drunkenness on the
part Of inmates.