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VOLUME XIII., No. 212.
*arly All State Wardens
/' Got Graft From Lessees
Sensation Follows Sensa
tion in Horror Revela
tions Before Felder Con
vict Lessees Investigat
ing Committee.
ATI.ANTA, Ga.—The Felder inves
tigating committee which ig investi
gating the convict lease system of
the state adjourned at 10.05 last night
until 3 o’clock this afternoon. Dur
ing the session testimony was intro
duced which showed that practically
every warden in the state has been
receiving pay front lessees. The
prison commission has known of this
since last November, testified J. M.
Dugan, who said he attended a con
ference of lessees at which all three
members of the commission were
present. He staled the matter was
under discussion but the commission
ers had expressed no opinion.
Dr. W. B Hamby, it was testified,
was so influential with the prison
commission that he has not been able
to guarantee in advance to furnish
a competent state warden in making
contracts to deliver convicts. It was
sworn that Dr. Hamby, through his
brokerage business, had leased con
victs for which he paid the state $225
each per year, to one party for $52.50
a month, more than three times what
they cost him, thus making a profit
of $lO5 per year on each man.
It was testified that when lessees
had trouble with convicts Dr. J. R.
Brock, who is a member of the in
vestigating committee, and who has
iiekl the position of camp physician
at a lessees' plant in his senatorial
district, advised the lessees to “sec"
.lake Moore. It' has been said that
former Chief Wardeh Moore could
give advice as to means for getting
the most work out of men.
George F. Hurt, a iessee, testified
that from his experience the stat<>
convict system has been operated for
th ( advantage of a few lessees and to
the disadvantage of the many lessees.
A. .1. Howard, of Jokln, Miller coun
ty, employed at the camp of the Flow
, ers Dumber company for six years
as a warden, testified that the com- i
pany paid him $25 a month extra for
!Hilling dry lumber out of a kiln
v'jpli had often whipped men but ne\
V’es.vhipped one to death. He had
/•ahrd that two years ago a man had
een wrapped in blankets and smoth
r pred to death. He said he knew noth
ing about the incident.
CHILDREN BORN
IN CONVICT CAMPS.
Will Williams, employed at the
state farm, testified as to the sepa
ration of the sexes at the farm. He
swore that the women and men were
kept separate, but testified that two
negro women had given birth to chi!
dren he had been at the farm.
His investigation, he said, convinced
him that convicts were responsible
for the women's condition. Hackett,
a white man, and Josh, a negro, were
accused of being the fathers of the
children. Witness had never heard
that the guards were criminally inti
mate with the female convicts.
J. C. Edwards, chairman of the leg
islative committee which visited the
camp of the Chattahoochee Brick
company, told of conditions found by
the committee.
He said men were forced to go on
a trot; that many worked In kill.a
where the heat was so Intense It did
not seem possible for men to exist
long In it. One man had been on a
trot for fifteen years and witness did
not see how ne had stood It. Beds
were dirty, mess hall filtny.
M. O. Maxwell, warden at a coal
mine camp, said there were ten men
now in hospital at his place, five or
six of whom had injured themselves
by sticking picks in their feet and
limbs. Two or three men had recent
ly been killed by falling slate. Said
convicts were frequently Injured la
this way; admitted sending in com
plete diet reports to the commission.
So far as the commission knew from
reports. Maxwell testified, the men
had not received anything to eat in
18 months. He said he has whipped
“right smart; ' usually for idleness.
His records show 30 to 40 whippings
a month. There are 140 men at the
camp Maxwell admitted whipping
forty new men at one time to “break
fhem in ” Asked if men could spare
the time from digging to properly
prop the works in order to protect
their lives and still complete their
rtquired tasks, witness answered
simply: "The men have to work.”
CONFESSED TO
MUCH WHIPPING.
A. J. Ivey, deputy warden at the
Lookout Mountain camp, Maxwell's
post, which is owned by Col. J. W.
English. Jr., was questioned as to
whipping. He swore he did not have
to whip men at Palmer Brick com
pany, the men being good workers,
but when he and his convicts were
transferred to the Lookout Mountain
4' peg he wna forced to do a good
nl whipping in order to get the
t- i rt'fied taska completed. He admit
ted that he could not hare aa direct
supervision of the men as at other
camps, and that he was forced to rely
on the word of the mine boss as to
the failure of the men to complete
specified larks.
A former convict, now a practicing
physician, testified at the night ses
•ion aa le cruelty at the state f-rm.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
FILL TIB DHESS
GIVEN RICH
urn
WASHINGTON.—As a sequel to
the thrashing and coat of tar admin
istered to F. E. Bliss, Jr., Wednesday i
evning when he called at 1317 Ken
yon street to see a woman, came j
the arrest yesterday afternoon of i
; Charles Marthinson, G 2 years old; I
! James D. White, GO years oid, and i
Henry Cole, 30 years old.
The men were afterwards released
on SSOO bond each and later in the
evening held a consultation with their
i attorney, and the latter issued a
j statement, in which it is alleged that
! Bliss tried to break up the Marthin
| son home and paid undue attention
Ito Mrs. Cole. Tine statement alleges
that Bliss is possessed of hypnotic
power and that by the use of this ad
vantage, he sought to alienate the af
fections of the two women.
Th e statement further charges that
TJ 1J r- r. nnn .v : w it.
Bliss was seen embracing Mrs. Marth
ir.son by her husband and his com
panions. They then took Bliss to the
basement, battered up his face and
body until he needed the services of
a physician and treated hint to a com
plete coat of tar.
All the men charged with adminis
tering the tar are prominent and
wealthy. Charles Marthison is a iutn
ber man and controls extensive inter
ests in several southern states. James
White is a weli known stock broker
and speculator. He is also wealthy,
it being the gossip of the "street"
that he made $100,»100 in the market
only a short time ago. Cole is con
nected with a large local corporation
In an executive capacity.
AMENDMENT IS
OFFERED TO
PRMLL
ATLANTA, Ga.—The first amend
ment that has been offered to the pro
hibition bill since it was passed came
yesterday in the shape of a resolution
by Representative Wise, of Fayette,
to make one and one-half per cent of
alcohol as the limit of near-beers.
The only way the present iaw fixes
the amount is by stating that it shall
not contain enough alcohol to produce
intoxication. This, it is claimed, is
not very clear, as some people can be
intoxicated on less alcohol than oth
ers. The fixing a certain per cent
of alcohol has been urged by many
prohibitionists and a bill to this ef
fect has been introduced and will
probably be acted upon at the pres
ent session of the legislature.
The same amendment also asks
that a tax of S2OO be fixed on the sale
of all drinks which contain less than
one and one-half per cent of alcohoL
This has also worried the councils of
several cities.
Several times the questions to what
per cent of alcohol is allowable in
near-beeis has come up before the
different courts and has been decided
in several ways. The outcome of the
bill of Mr. Wise will be awa*ted with
Interest by the people generally.
He saw a man whipped 120 licks one
i Sunday morning. The convict died a
i month later from dropsy.
Witness said he was a physician
and knew when men were sick One
man's temperature was 104 1-3, but
! Captain Slater whipped him just the
same. The camp physician had ot
dered the man to stay indoors, but
the warden whipped him any way.
This witness spoke of being worked
in rain, sleet or snow and made to
sleep in wet clothes.
He swore Captain Slater, the war
den, was a drinking man; said he had
been overpowered and whipped, 'he
whipping Inflicted a permanent in
' JurV; had to have a delicate opera
t’on performed.
He spoke of an instance when he
/eslated whipping and Captain Slater
I rhot him In the ankle breaking the
bone; he aald while at Chattahoo
chee Brick company camp a negro
’ died following a whipping,
j Col. James W. English, president
|of the Chattahoochee Brick company,
r the Lookout Mountain Coal and Coke
i company, and other concerns whlcn
< trploy a large number of eonvlcta in
their work, and Dr. W. B. Hamby,
bead of the big convict brokerage
firm of Hamby and Tooroer, went
present, awaiting the call to testify,
be i were excused until l o'clock this
afternoon.
Forecast for Aupfusta and Vicinity—Fair tonight and Saturday.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 31, 1908.
PRESIDENT CASTRO AND QUEEN WILHELMINA
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PORT AND HARBOR OF WILLEMSTAD CITY
g I r All
President Castro, of Venezuela, whose contumacy toward Holland has led that nation to a naval demon
stration against the South American Republic. He is shown on the top at the left. On the right Is a plo
ture of Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, who is determined to have It out with Venezuela. At the bot
tom is shown the port and harbor of Willemstad. In the Island of Curacao, showing the Dutch cruiser Gel
derland, at anchor. Willemstad has been the scene of an outbreak against the Venezuelan consul who has
left hurriedly for home.
COLORED MINER
DYNAMITE
VICTIM
ENSLEY, Ala. —The first mine out
rage to occur here was the blowing
up of the house of George Banks, a
colored non-union miner. His wife
and children were thrown from their
beds and the house practically ruined
Banks is a prosperous and respected
negro. A number of prominent citi
zens held an impromptu Indignation
meeting this morning and threatened
to make ail union miners vaeate
houses in Ensley and establish a vlgl
lance committee to protect all classes.
Martial law seems imminent.
in jealFisoaoe
KILLS FOOD AND
HIMSELF
SEATTLE, Wash.—ln a fit of Jeal
ous rage Jesse Elfer, a grlpman, kill j
ed his eight-year-old daughter Hazel
aud Mra. Dennis Nihoul, a confine
ment patient; seriously wounded his
wife and also wounded Mra. Ethel
Warren, his sister-in-law, In a private
maternity hospital last night. Fife,
then shot himself, killing himself In
stantly.
The Elf era have been separated for
some time, the wife living at the hos
pital where she was employed Tht
first bullet fired by the grlpman put
out the lights but he cooly lighted
matches so that he might see to con
tinue th« slaughter
Enrag4-d because he could not se*
to carry out the carnage, Flfer drove
Ills daughter and Mra. .Vlbcrai into the
street where he fired on them.
THREE KILLED IN
AUTO-ENGINE
CRASH
PHILADELPHIA, Pa—Driving east
on Hunting Purk avenue at a rapid
rate shortly before midnight, occu
pants of a big touring car disregard
ed the warning crlea of a Reading
railway watchman and crashed
through the closed gates right in front
of an in-bound train.
The car was smashed Into splinters
and the occupants killed.
Charles Humphrey of 4617 Oakland
street, chief clerk in the police bu
reau, and Bamuel W. Hoop, clerk to
the superintendent of police, and .(no.
B. Taylor, were so horribly mangled
that they were not recognized at first.
The men, it in said, had been < n
a night ride to Montgomery county,
and wi re returning home when tht
accident occurred The ear came down
the street ,o the track so fast, that
it was thought control had been lost
by the driver, especially as the warn
ing of Watchman Jerc Allah Sullivan
and his wild gestures did not bring
a lessening of speed.
Through the closed gates the on*
smashed Its way, scattering the brok
en timbers to each side and reached
the middle of the southbound track
Just in time to be hit squarely by the
locomotive. *
The engineer had no opportunity
to shut down brakes, so rapidly and
unexpectedly was the automobile shot,
j Into his path. The watchman heard
nothing but a sickening crunch as the
automobile #as ground to pieces and
the riders mangled. The bodies were
; dragged go far by the wheels and so
cut and disfigured that the police
did not roeognlzo them
Humphrey was finally recognized
by his badge, and word was sent to
| .Superintendent of Police Taylor.
H ATTIESBU RG*Tne"wß
IN NEW HANDS
HATTIESBURG, Miss A corpora
i Hon with a capital of SBO,OOO was or
gantzed today to take over the prop
cry of the Hattiesburg News, esiab
i llshed in May of last year by the. Hat
) tiesburg Printing and Publishing com
| pany. The new corporation will be
known simply as ihe Hattiesburg
| News, but Is authorized to do u gen
eral publishing and printing business.
BRAZIL WON'T
SELL HER BIG
WARSHIPS
lUO JANEIRO, Brazil. Instructions
have been forwarded to the Brazilian
Icgallon at London lo declare again
ihat not one of the three hatlleshlpH
of the Dreadnought type now being
constructed for Brazil in England Is
for sale.
FROM BUFFALO
CAME MURDER
VJCTIM
NEW YORK. Developments today
In Ihe remarkable Green Point Ave
nue bonfire muider mystery tend to
show that the young woman who was
slain and her body partially Incin
erated, wa; ,ln all probability lured
to New York from Buffalo.
It was ascertained today that the
scapular found around the dead girl's
neck wcch es Our Lady of Mount Car
mel, but mainly In use- In the church
in Buffalo, where Father Baker has a
great devotion to Our Lady of Vic
tory. A representation of the lattei
appears to have been stlched on to
ih<- ordinary scapular
The picture in question is declared
by experts in such mailers lo have
been made under the orders of Father
Baker, of Buffalo The pattern n
used extensively In *b»t city. It is
not of the Polish design because ori
the eheek of the Virgitn Mary on
these designs there ar*- two line*. The
Icollcc have establishe d that the body
was taken to the spot where It wuc
found in a grocer's wagon The
men took It to the spot, poured oil
on the mattress, In which It w.
wrapped, set U afire, and drove rapid
ly away.
DAILY AND SUNDAY. $9.00 PER YEAR.
TROUBLE LOOMS AHEAD FOR
IMMI6RATIOH OFFICIALS
SOLICITATION OF
WHISKY ORDERS
IS AJRIIIIE
ATLANTA. The most far reaching
appellate court decision ever render
ed in Georgia or probably in any other
southern Htate on ttie subject of so
liciting orders for whiskey or other
intoxicating beverages was that hand
ed down tilts morning by the Georgia
court of appeals In which Judge Rich
ard B. Russell, with the concurrence
of the entire court, rendered ail opin
ion to the effect tlmt the soilettaton
of orders by mall in another slate as
well us in Georgia by any Individual or
corporation or by any agent, of Hitch
individual or corporation Is a viola
tlon of the laws of the state of Geor
gia and lhal any person making such
a solicitation Is guilty of a crime
against the state. The cases about
which the decision was rendered are
thosii of Rohm against the state ana
the R. M. ltoso Co, against the state.
SECOND STORM
THREATENS
CHINESE
HONG KONG Another typhoon Is
reported moving towards Hong Kong
and the Inhabitants are preparing for
the worst. One of the most violent
storms In thirty years has devastated
a large amount of territory.
The typhoop Just passed raged all
day. Forty junks are ashore at this
port. Canton Is the heaviest sufferer,
hundreds of Junks there being de
stroyed. The mortality on Pearl river
Is said to be fully ten thousund Float
ing bodies menace the public health
and there are grav 0 fears of an cj>'-
demlc.
The wires are all do and details
are coming In slowly, .mould the re
ports of the second storm be true. It
will he one of th,. worst disasters that
has befallen this coast In a century.
FEDERATION OF
LIBOR LEADERS
ARRESTED
PARIS.- Rioting at Vlgneux yestnr
day precipitated a serious situation,
owing to the decision of the govern
ment to arreHt the leaders of the gen
eral federation of labor mid possibly
suprnsK the entire organization on the
ground that It threatens public order.
ARREBTED FOR WIFE MURDER.
GOAL GITY, Ala Walter Htreety,
Jalb d today on a charge of the brutal
murder of his wife whom he married
less than a year ago and who was
soon to become a mother, has created
much excitement.
Valdosta Man Knocked Another in Head
Leaving Him on the Roadside Two Days
VALDOSTA, Da —Tom Powell, of I
the sawmill firm of Powell Brothers,:
was placed In Jail last nigh' charged
with the murder of Owen Folsom, who I
was struck on the bend by a shingle j
and lav by the roadside on way home
for iwo days He was discovered:
Do You Know What the
Octroi Is?
At th e o*tes of Paris every market-man stops and pays a little tag
upon the food he eerrlee in for eale. Thie le the famous Octroi, Every
night the endlest proceealon of the gardenere of Prance filet Into the
getee, paying It. The little tax admits them to the great market place
of the country.
Your Ad. In Sunday’s Herald will go Into 8,000 prosperous homes In
this city end In the trade territory tributary to Augusta.
This Is a pretty good market piece—ls you want to do buelneee. The
charge for the service Is trifling, Just as the famous Octroi of France le
email. But the results will be greet and splendid and satisfying, be
cause your Ad. In The Herald admits you to the greet market place of
thie city and section.
Interested, intelligent end wide awake buyers end purchasers read
The Herald every day end on Sunday for its news end buelneee an
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Professor Sandford, of
Stanford University, Ap
pointee of President
Roosevelt, Makes Report
To Washington.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal—Startling
revelations which It Is intimated may
Involve the immigration officials at
the Pacific coast portH and along the
Mexican border are expected as the
outcome of the Investigation carried
on by the Federal government of the
Illegal entry of Chinese and Japanese
coolies into this country. Professor
Fernando San Ford of Stanford, Uni
versity, was appointed by the presi
dent to Invest Igtito Immigration con
ditions arrived here after a month’s
work along the Mexican border and
a report, signed by Sanford and other
Investigators and forwarded to
Washington makes interesting dls
closures as lo the reported ring of
coolie smugglers was discovered,
which Includes big merchants of
Chinatown and the carrying on of a
regular business of raising funds bo
aid the smuggling operations.
HARRIMAN TO
AGAIN TEEL
810 STICK
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NEW YORK. The Heralds Chi
cago Special says; Special agents of
the government In Chicago are trying
lo collect evidence to substantiate
proceedings for the disruption of the
Harrlman system or railroads.
For more than a week Ralph M.
MrKeagle, who did a great deal of
the preliminary work In the Investiga
tion which the commission made Into
the affairs of the Harlman railroads,
has been working among the big ship
pers with a view to ascertaining how
the Harrlman combination haa been
used, If used at all, lo stlfie competi
tion and In restrain of trade. On Hpe
dal Agent McKenzie's calling Hat are
ali of the traffic men of the big In
dustries In the city.
Ills Investigation Is taken here as
meaning the "big stick" has again be
gun to wave over the Harrlman linos.
It Is underatood the evidence la de
slred to use In connection with a suit
to bo begun with the government,
which will be similar to the Northern
Securities case, which resulted In the
disruption of the Hill road's so far as
a holding company Is concerned. The
special agent's work is directed to
ward getting Information from thn
shippers with respect to conditions
before the combination of tho Union
Pacific, the. Southern Pacific, tho Ore
gon Short Line and the Oregon Rail
road and Navigation company, and a
comparison between those conditions
and the conditions which exist to
day.
With some of the traffic inen tho
special agent made little headway ami
all whom he haa approached aro said
lo have evidenced a uohnitanen to get
mixed up In tho affair,
JURY FINDSMRS. MAE
BROOKS GUILTY
GAINESVILLE, Ga.—Mrs. Hue
Brooks, charged with assault with In
tent. to murder, waa found guilty by
I lie Jury of shooting at another, with
the recommendation that she be pun
ished aa for a misdemeanor, Hho la
not yet sentenced.
yesterday In throes of death, and
died soon afterwards.
Powell claims that Folsom started
on him with a knife, he knocked him
down, but does not think that the
blow was sufficient to cause his
death.