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DALTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13.1903.
$1.00 Per Annum
DEEN
VERELY WHIPPED
Refused to Accede
den's Advances, She Says
WARDEN DENIES CHARGES
And Says Woman Was Insubordinate
and Mad because Privileges
Were Cut Off
In Georgia!
One of the most disgraceful ep
isodes in the history of the state
has just been to light at Milledge-
ville prison in the whipping of
Mamie De Cris, known as the
“Diamond Queen.” The disclos
ures following the investigation
are the most shocking ever pub
lished in connection with the penal
history of Georgia.
Because, according to her story,
she would not submit to dishonor
at the hands of Warden Allagood,
the warden had the woman
brought in by guards and had her
upper clothing forcibly removed.
Then while Miss De Cris was
held Allagood struck her forty
times on the bare back with a
leather strap, nearly every stroke
drawing blood. With her back
mangled, Miss De Cris was sent
to the field to work with negroes.
She fainted and was found by
Supt. Foster, who sent her to the
hospital and bitterly denounced
the brutality with which she had
been whipped.
Miss De Cris went into hys
terics and her death was for awhile
feared. She shrieked out contin
ually: “Don’t take off my clothes,”
“Don’t hit me again.”
When Miss De Cris was con
victed Of securing jewelry at Sa
vannah by forged orders her
friends claimed she was insane.
When the house of representa
tives convened Monday, a resolu
tion for an investigation was of
fered by Messrs. Stovall and Har
den, of Chatham, as follows:
“Whereas as reports have reached this
house of the cruel treatment of Mamie
De Cris, a young woman sentenced in
the superior court of Chatham county
to two years service in the penitentiary,
he it
‘ Resolved, That the prison commis
sion report to this body not later than
Wednesday, August 12 th, all the facts
in its possession relative to the mental
and physical condition, and to the con
duct and punishment of said Mamie De-
CriB on the prison farm at MiHedgeville.”
Mr. Felder, of Bibb, offered a
resolution for the investigation of
the whole convict system, a com
mittee to report at the next ses
sion. Mr. Bell, of Emanuel, in
troduced a resolution denouncing
the whipping as an outrage and a
reflection oh the civilization of
the statb and called for the; dis
charge of the official who whipped
Miss Da Cris, and asking the gov
ernor to pardon her. Mr. Hall,
of Bibb, moved to refer all the
resolutions to a committee of
seven. This was agreed to and
the senate resolution -for an inves
tigation was referred to the same
committee. The chair appointed
Messrs. Hall, Wilson, Leigh, Ar
nold, Jones, of Pickens, Reid and
Davison.
At the same hour resolutions
relating to the matter were intro
duced in the senate by Senator
McMichael:
“Whereas, information has gone
abroad through the press of the state
that Miss De Cris, a white female pris
oner at the state prison farm, at Mil-
ledgeville, has been oruelly treated by
authorities of said farm, that she has
been forced to do work in the fields and
elsewhere ont of all proportion to her
physical condition, and that she has been
cruelly beaten to a degree far more se-
. im, into the provocation and the extent of
10 war- the whipping inflicted, and report their
findings to the governor and prison
commission.”
Senator McMichael, in a strong
speech, urged the adoptiou of- the
resolutions. He argued that if
there were truth in the newspa
per reports the emergency was
one calling for prompt action on
the part of the legislature, and if
the reports were not true it. was
due the state that this should be
known.
The resolution was adopted
without a dissenting vote. Sena
tors McMichael and Hudson were
named as the senate members of
the committee.
Chairman Turner, of the prison
com mission,’ordered Warden Jake
Moore, of the penitentiary depart
ment, to proceed to MiHedgeville
and make a full investigation of
the case. A dispatch from Mil-
ledgeville says:
Miss De Gris testified that the real
cause of the whipping was that Warden
Allagood made improper proposals to
her one day. On the first of June, while
in his office, he tried to caress her, whioh
she resented; that he then went into an
other room, calling her to come there.
“Instead of going to him I went down
stairs,” she testified. “He told me that
if I ever told what he said he wonld
make it hot for me, and he certainly has
kept his word. I saw him at one time
kiss a white woman prisoner in the sick
ward.
“I told one of the other white women
of the improper proposals made by Alla
good, and she told me if I was that kind
of a woman it wonld he well for me to
do what Allagood said if I wanted to
have an easy time, but if I was not that
kind to resist.
“Chip tain Allagood learned that I had
told and went to the field where the
woman was at work and forced her to
tell him what I had said. Before this I
had many privileges. For instance, my
clothing was washed with Allagood’s.
-‘I had practically the same food, used
the same closet, etc. These were after
wards all denied me.
When questioned as to how many licks
she had received, said she did not know,
bnt that she was braised so badly that
she could not sit down for several days
and that she had to put greased cloths
on theplaces for some time; was forced
to work in the field with negro women
for two weeks, and nearly fainted in
the field once.
She said she never wrote any improper
notes to anyone, and says she overheard
Mrs. Allagood tell the women of the
house this morning that the committee
was coming and for them to stick to her
and the captain.
She was tantalized by negro women 1
as the “lazy, no good diamond qneen,
no better than we are,” etc. Her refu
sal to Bee reporters was dictated by All
agood, and through fear.
One witness testified that Miss DeCris
told her of improper proposals made by
Allagood; that she heard the licks and
heard Miss DeCris’s cries; afterwards
she saw the bruises, and they were very
THE DIARY OF A BAD BOY (Illustrated.) WHOLESALE GROCERY U
FIRM FOR DALTON
COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY W. R. HEARST.
AWFULLY
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vere than that ordinarilyjnflicted,upon rivalry prevailed ana ev
Hardened criminals.
‘ 1 Thereforebe it resolved, That a com
mittee of two from the senate, appointed
by the president, and three from the
bouse, appointed by the speaker, bo
sent at once to the prison farm to inves
tigate the causes of the reports; to look
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All Home Print
MRS. J. A. WALKER
CORNELL SCHOLARSHIP
of
severe.
All the witnesses denied that Captain
had ever made any approaches toward
them or others, as far as they knew.
All denied that Mrs. Allagood said any
thing this morning to them about stick
ing to them. — .
Captain Allagood testified that charges
were utterly false, without the sem
blance of truth; that he never made Im
proper proposals to any one, but that
Ttrimi DeCris was mad abont her privi
leges being cut off to some extent on
account of her unruly and impudent con
duct; that she had been treated more
kindly than any other prisoner they
ever had, but she did not appreciate
what was done for her. ,
“Her ways were utterly destructive of
discipline and 1 whipped her af ter the
physician had pronounced that she was
able to stand it. The punishment was
mild and did not hurt her much. The
charges aie all inspired by anger and are
false? I can face the result with confi
dence.” ========== ==
The Sunday singing school con
vention convened at Mt. Pleasant,
Whitfield county, on last Satur
day. Many distinguished vocal
ists were present, notably among
them being L B. IsbeU, of Chatta
nooga; Rucker Mauldin, of Tun
nel Hill; W. B. Danzlei-and Rus
sell Liddell, of Dalton. After a
long and sharp contest the prize
was awarded to Poplar
The highest spirit of
banner
Springs
Jrything went off pleasantly. Mr.
Isbell and other contestants bore
their defeat in a most graceful
manner, all vowing to do their
best next time.
Won By Francis Harper, Son
Prof. William-Harper.
The Brooklin Times has the fol
lowing article about Francis Har
per, son of Prof. William Harper,
for seven years at the head of Dal
ton’s public schools:
Francis Harper, of College Point,
who as previously stated in the
Brooklyn Times, has won the
Cornell scholarship, is a son of
William Harper, superintendent
of the Poppenhausen Institute, a
free educational institution at that
place. The subject of this sketch
was the valedictorian of the class
of ’Oh of the Flushing High School.
The Cornell scholarship entitles
him to a four year course without
the payment of tuition. He was
one out of one hundred and fifty
state scholars appointed to Cornell
University as a result of competi
tive examinations held in each
county of the state.
Young Harper was bom in
Southbridge, Mass., on November
17,3 886, and is now sixteen years
of age. He attended the public
schools of Americus, Ga., of which
his father was superintendent for
four years, during which he com
pleted the work of the first six
grades. Returning then to Mas
sachusetts with his parents, he
entered the eighth grade in the
Southbridge schools and the High
School two years later, when
twelve years old, having completed
his preparation for the High School
in six years. After one year in
the High School at Southbridge,
his parents moved to New York,
and he entered the Morris High
School at 157th street, of which
Dr. B. Goodwin is principal. A
little over a year later, his family
moved to College Point, and he
entered the Flushing High School,
of which John Holley Clark is
principal, where he graduated as
valedictorian on June 30 last. He
has never sought nor received
assistance in his studies at home,
nor studied in vacation. He is a
healthy, normal boy, fond of out
door life and of the water, and
greatly interested in birds and
bird lore. He has apcomplished
his work by diligent and persever-
study, and has always stood
with his teachers. He is a
of great self-reliance, this
ing.
well
boy
having been a marked feature of
his character almost from infancy.
It is needless to say that young
Harper is the happiest and proud
est boy in this section just now be
cause of the achievements attained
through his own personal efforts
and the honurs conferred upon him
on- graduation day. He is par
ticularly proud of the fact that he
has been appointed to a free
scholarship in Cornell University.
BROKE HER ARM
Did Little Caroline Webb at Tunpel
Hill.—Personals.
Tunnel Hill, Ga., Augi 12.—
Little Carolyn Webb, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Webb, had the
misfortune to fall, and break her
arm Thursday evening." Doctors
,Green and Anderson were called
in, and the little patient is doing
nicely.
Dr. W. S. Jordan and daughters,
Mary and Ruth, were in Ringgold
last week.
Miss May Davis, an attractive
young lady of Chattanooga, is the
guest of Miss Lena Kirkpatrick.
Miss Jimmie Gramling, of Sum
merville, is here to spend the re
mainder of the summer with her
parents.
Revival services will begin at
the Baptist church next week.
Mrs." J. L. Heggie’s numerous
friends will be glad to know that
she is doing nicely in Atlanta,
where she has gone for treatment.
Miss Lemo Grantling, and little
niece, Charlie Nickolls, were in
Dalton Friday.
Mrs. M. C. Foster and children,
of Dalton, are the guests of rela
tives here.
Miss Jessie Foster has returned
from a visit to Graysville.
Mr. Rob King, of Summerville,
was here Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. Ben Harris, of Ringgold,
was here Sunday.
M. A. Cooper spent Sunday at
home.
Miss Nannie Jones, of Atlanta,
is the guest of her sister, Mrs. G.
F. Ransome. <
Mrs. Jones has returned to At
lanta, after a visit to Mrs. G. F.
Ransone.
Miss Florence Head’s friends
will be glad to know that she is
improving in Chattanooga, where
she has gone for treatment under
specialists.
Mr. Pierce Millican is spending
the week with his grandfather in
Chattooga county.
Mr. Gene Rhodes, of Graysville,
spent Sunday with Tunnel Hill
relatives.
MAKE WINNING PLAYS.
Dalton Base Ball Team Now a
One to Beat.
Hard
Dalton is winning from every
thing she tackles nowadays. Sat
urday the Whelands, the crack
amateur club of Chattanooga, was
shut out entirely, Dalton winning
Is Full of Interesting Items for The
Citizen Readers This Week.
Misses Flora and Annie Seagle
have returned to their home in
., , c i o .. a Chattanooga after a delightful
the game bv a score of 12 to 0. . ^ ° . , ,, °
h J A , T-v , • Visit to Cohutta, where they were
Yesterday at Acworth Dalton
won from the club of that town,
the record being 12 runs for our
boys, while Acworth succeeded in
getting home just 8 times.
TEACHERS CHANGE.
Board Heets and Accepts Resignation
of Miss AUie Moore.
The Board of Education met
yesterday and accepted the resig
nation of Miss Allie Moore, who
gives up her position in the public
school here to go to San Diego,
Cal.
Miss Rosa Hnff, who has had
special training at Monteagle in
primary work, will take the place
vacated by Miss Moore.
Other changes made are as fol>
lows: Miss Maude Hamilton to
the 3d grade; Miss Kate Black'to
the 4th; Miss Ann Hill to the 5th;
Miss Mattie Lee Huff to the 6th;
Miss Nell King takes the second
overflow, and Mrs. Ruth Lester
Bell was elected supernumerary.
Mrs.Wade was chosen as janitor.
The Board gave a vote of thanks
to Mrs. John Gardner for her
kindness in superintending the
repairs on the school building.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Real estate transfers in Whit
field county since August 6, as
recorded by Clerk W. M. Sapp,
are as follows:
George L. Hardwick, ex., to F. T.
Hardwick, lot on Hamilton
street, Dalton.
Fidelity & Casualty Co., of New
York, to W. C. Martin, land in
9th district, $500.
Mattie Tyler to W. R. Davis, lot
in Dalton, $250,
E. A. and Amanda Roberts to G.
W. Lents, land in 12th district,
$350.
G. W. Lents to William L. Rob
erts, land in 12th district, $3 36.
R. I. Peak to R. B. Peak, lot on
Thornton avenue in Dalton.
Will Advocate Lynch Law as Hus
band’s Slayer Escaped Gallows.
Chicago, August 12.—“Gover
nor Terrell, of Georgia, has al
lowed the murderer -of my hus
band to escape the gallows. He
has commuted his sentence to im
prisonment and in a little while, I
am told, the cowardly assassin
will be given his liberty.”
So declared Mrs. Alice Walker,
of 293 Marshfield, avenue today,
when news reached her of the
action of Governor Terrell in
commuting the sentence of John
Perry, who murdered her husband,
John A. Walker, of Chicago, last
fall.
“Henceforth,” declared Mrs.
Walker, “I am an advocate of
lynching. Every man who com
mits murders and other great
crimes ought to he lynched before
politicians can have the opportun
ity of saving them from the ends
of justice.”
Mrs. Walker is a strikingly
beautiful woman, scarcely thirty
years of age. Tenderly reared and
of frail physique, she has only re.
cently begun to work as a stenog
rapher in order to support her
three small children.
“It isn’t because I have to work
so hard that I feel bitter against
the governor, but because my
husband’s murder—one of the
blackest that ever disgraced the
South—must go unavenged!” she
continued.
“Why, I watf told months ago
that Perry would escape, because
there is a tradition that ( no one
will ever be hung by law in Whit
field county.’ Is it any wonder
the people of the South take the
law into their hands?”
Smith & Hall Succeed Flerri-
ister Bros. & Heggie
MR. PRESSLEY D. YATES
Will Take the Retail Business of
Horace J. Smith October
First.
COHUTTA’S BULLETIN
the attractive gnests of Miss
Fannie Hambright.
Mr. David Whittle and children
of Chattanooga are the gnests of
Mr. Bagby.
Miss Tennie Cresswell is in
Atlanta, where she is the guest of
Mrs. Minnie McWhorter.
Mr. and Mrs. Will McDonald,
of Dalton, have been visiting in
Cohutta this week. Mr. McDon
ald has just returned from an
extended trip to Illinois.
Mrs. Rice and little daughter,
of Chattanooga, were the welcome
guests of her sister, Mrs.-Murr, the
first of the week.
L. W. Roy has taken charge of
the Howardsville (Tenn.) school.
Misses Nola Roy and Lula
Cresswell will accompany him
there where they will attend school.
A series of meetings are being
held at the Methodist church this
week by Rev. Hawkins the pastor.
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Isabell have
returned to their home in Chatta
nooga after a week’s visit to Mrs.
Plymons in Cohutta.
Mrs. Ella Howard, of Dalton, is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ayers here.
Misses Nina Hughes and Sallie
Keebler, of Chattanooga, are visit
ing Miss Effie Plymons at Choutta.
Mrs. Oriea, of Alabama, is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Adams,
at Cohutta.
Miss Bessie Shugart is home
after a very delightful week in
Cleveland.
Mrs. Thornton, of Nashville, is
at Mrs. Dean’s in Cohutta for the
rest of the summer.
Mr. Henry Simmons, of Atlan.
ta, was in Cohutta last week. •
Mr. Zbye and Misses Annie
Speer and Maggie Seymore, of
Varnell, attended church at Mt.
Olivet Tuesday night.
'Mr. Will McKamy and sister,
of Chattanooga, spent Saturday
and Sunday at the home of Rev.
Burnett near Cohutta.
That million-dollar salary and
Mr. Schwab were perfectly incon.
genial.
Horace J. Smith has sold his
retail business in this city to
Pressley D. Yates, who
charge thereof on October 1 i
Mr. Smith will then
member of the firm of S
Hall, wholesale grocers,
firm will succeed Flemister
& Heggie on November 1st,
building now occupied
latter. The junior member of
new company, Mr. J. S. Hail, is
at present traveling for Daven
port Bros., of Chattanooga, but
will sever his connection with
that house and devote his time to
the interests of Smith & Hall.
It is yet a matter of general re
gret that Flemister Bros. &
Heggie are to leave this city, but
it is a great compensation to know
that so energetic a pair of gentle
men as Messrs. Smith and Hall
will fill their place in the ^Dalton
business world.
Horace Smith needs no 'intro
duction to the readers of The Cit
izen. He has for many years con
ducted a successful retail genes
merchandise business in this
and as a merchant and as a
commands the respect and hi:
esteem of the people of Whitfield
and adjoining counties.
Mr. Hall is also well known
and liked through this section.
Traveling this territory for the
past nine years, he carries the ac
quaintance and friendship of
many country merchants, which
will be of great value to him in
his new venture. Mr. Hall has
lived in Dalton, he having clerked
for Sam Farnsworth here a num
ber of years ago.
For this new firm The Citizen
bespeaks a large volume of trade.
Both members are hustlers and
splendid business men, and Dal
ton will heartily appreciate their
enterprise.
Of Mr. Yates, who takes over
the retail business of Mr. Smith
it is likewise unnecessary to say
much. He is a Dalton hoy, at
present traveling for an Atlanta
manufacturing company. He is
affable and popular, and will un
doubtedly hold the large trade
Mr. Smith has built up.
In Dalton drug circles the fif
teenth of this month will also see
a* business change. Dr. G. H.
Hightower will retire from the
Hightower-Tallev Medicine Co.,
disposing of his interest to Walter
Hightower, who will on that date
return from Rome, and Fiank
Springer, who is at present con
nected with the firm. Both - of
these young gentlemen are popu
lar in this community, and The
Citizen feels no hesitancy in de
claring that under their direction
the business of this concern will
suffer no diminution.
“You are a d—n liar;” “the gen
tleman is a common liar;” “the
gentleman glared;” “the gentleman
is dared outside the room.” And
thus the lobby investigation pro
ceeds at the capital.—Brunswick
Times-Recorder.
Criminal lobbying in the le
lative halls of Georgia has been
done only in "the minds of a few
members who gained their inspira
tion from the editorial columns of
the Atlanta Journal. The Jour
nal, of course, imagined it.
