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MACON, DUBLIN AND SAVANNAH
RAILROAD COMPANY
LOCAL TIME TABLE).
Effective July 2, 1911.
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"7710 8725 Macon n715~~4730
7:22 3:37 Swiftcreek 11:03 4:20
7:30 3:45 Dry branch 10:55 4:12
7:34 3:49 Atlantic 10:51 4:09
7:38 3:53 Pike’s Peak 10:48 4:08
7:45 4:00 Fitzpatrick 10:42 4:00
7:50 4:04 Ripley 10:37 3:53
8:00 4:14 Jeff’sonville 10:27 3:42
8:10 4:23 Gallemore 10:15 3:30
8:20 4:33 Danvilel 10:07 3:22
8:25 4:38 Allentown 10:02 3:17
8:34 4:47 Montrose 9:53 3:08
8:44 4:57 Dudley 9:42 2:58
8:50 5:03 Shewmake 9:36 2:52
8:55 5:09 Moore 9:29 2:45
9:10 5:25 ar lv 9:15 2:30
Dublin
8:15 5:30 lv ar 9:10 2:25
9:17 5:32 SouMD&SJct 9:08 2:23
9:21 5:36 NorMD&SJct 9:04 2:19
9:31 5:45 Catlin 8:54 2:09
9:40 5.54 Mintor 8:47 2:01
9:50 6:05 Rockledge 8:36 1:50
9:55 6:10 Orland 8:31 1:45
10:08 6:23 Soporton 8:19 1:33
10:19 6:34 Tarrytown 8:07 1:21
10:26 6:41 Kibbee 8:00 1:15
10:40 6:55 Vidalia 7:45 1:00
CONNECTIONS.
At Dublin with the Wrightsville and
Tennille and the Dublin and South
western for Eastman and Tennille
and intermediate points.
At Macon iwth Southern railway
from and to Cincinnati, Chattanooga,
Rome, Birmingham, Atlanta and in
termediate points. Also the Central
of Georgia, G., S. & F. railway, Ma
son and Birmingham railway and ths
Georgia railroad.
At Rockledge with the Millen and
Southwestern for Wadley and inter*
mediate points.
At Vidalia with the Seaboard Air
Line for Savannah and intermediate
points, and with the Millen and South
western for Millen, Stillmore and in
termediate points.
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Macon, Ga.
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NEW YORK.—It cost about sl,-
500,000 to build the Tombs.
With the land on which it
stands it is carried on the
books of the city of New
York at present at between $5,000,-
000 and $6,000,000. For its siize
the Tombs iis the most expen
siye prison in the world. The pres
ent structure and the Egyptian tem
ple that preceded it and that bore
the same name have housed some of
the most famous criminals In the
world. For the amount of money that
has been spent on it and the amount
of money that is being spent on it
each year to maintain it and make it
secure, it should be the strongest Jail
in America. As a matter of fact it Is
little more than a joke. Within the
last sixty days two murderers have es
caped from it. Nothing in the history
of Newgate surpasses in daring one
of these escapes.
A short time ago Raymond Fors
brey, a murderous young burglar, got
out of his isolated cell and over the
Tombs wall, and has not been heard
of since. His escape is all the more
remarkable because every one in the
Tombs, from the warden down to the
trusties, knew he was one of the most
desperate of men. They had knowl
edge of his ingenuity and audacity.
They knew that a few days before a
woman had smuggled saws and acid —
some say dynamite also —Into his cell,
and that he had been detected in cut
ting his way out, not through any as
tuteness of his guards, but simply be
cause of his own carelessness. They
knew he had boasted he would escape,
and that he had openly declared he
held the Tombs and everything and
everybody in it in the utmost con
tempt. And then, after they had put
him in what was supposed to be the
most secure cell of all in the great
prison, he “turned the trick’’ in away
that astounded his jailors and made
New Yorkers gasp.
Witson’s Escape a Mystery.
Then there was the case of Witson,
another murderous criminal, last July,
He simply got out of his cell, cracked
a man on the head and left. He did
not leave any clew to the manner of his
going. Whether he went over the
wall or out of the front door or dug
through to China, or embarked in an
aeroplane is not known definitely and
does not matter, for he is gone.
It is an open gecret that various
prisoners supposed to be locked in
cells have spent a fair amount of
time outside. Nan Patterson, when a
Tombs “guest” for the murder of
Caesar Young, is reported to have
done a good deal of trotting around
town at night, if well-informed people
are not greatly mistaken. It is true
that when she took her jaunts abroad
she usually was accompanied by an
attache of the Tombs; but she had
plenty of recreation during the time
she was supposed to have been incar
cerated there.
Then there was “Billy” McLaughlin,
the police inspector who was in the
Tombs for a long time as a result of
the Mazet investigation. He is said to
have spent only as much time in the
Tombs as he saw fit. Night after
IjQ-eco.^ was ji ave been seen
abE^Ahe city.
Whole System Wrong.
The whole system of management
in the Tombs is wrong. The em
ployes there are not selected for their
efficiency, their moral character, their
education or their knowledge of pris
on affairs. Many persons believe there
is little choice, morally speaking, be
tween the men who are locked up in
the cells and some of those who guard
them. A lot of the prison employes
are simply political hangers-on. They
get their jobs by favor of their dis
trict leader. A job in the Tombs is
not measured by the salary it brings,
but by the opportunities for graft at
tached to It. It is a good deal like a
police captaincy or a police inspector
ship. There Is graft in pretty nearly
everything connected with the Tombs.
No prison in America has such an un
savory reputation in that respect.
This graft and corruption has been ex
posed time and again. It fills many
pages in a book written by one of
the former chaplains of the Tombs. It
is so well known among the denizens
of the underworld that liquor, mor
phine, cocaine and other drugs may
eb obtained freely by prisoners there,
that it is hardly worth mentioning.
It is related by former Tombs Chap
lain J. J. Munro that when a certain
politician was boss of the City prison,
as the Tombs Is called, murderers, as
soon as they gave their pedigree at
the desk, were marched to the war
den’s office, where they were pri
vately catechized to know whether
any steerer of the prison had been
giving them any information about
lawyers, and then informed It was not
necessary for them to go to court in
order to get counsel; that he would,
out of the goodness of his heart,
look after their interests and assign
a lawyer to them. Two or three shy
ster firms had the murder cases dur
ing this warden’s regime. They got
SSOO a head, which was the amount
of money allowed by the state for
the defense of every murderer, less
one-half, which went to the grafting
warden. Out of this grew a rule that
is more or less observed now, that no
prisoner in the Tombs can change his
attorney without the consent of the
court.
“Searching" Merely a Farce.
The way in which Forsbrey, the
murderer who fled, got the -acid and
the saws —and perhaps the dynamite
—that were found on him two days
before his escape indicates >he laxity
with which the system of searching
visitors to the Topibs is conducted.
It is asserted that If a prisoner is at
all influential or has a fair bit of
money at his disposal the searching
is very perfunctory. Unless the ob
ject is a fairly good-sized one or is
carelessly concealed there Is a good
chance of its getftng past. This
brings one back again to the per
sonal element in the conduct of the
Tombs. The personal equation is of
just as much importance in the run
ning of a prison as it is in caring for
the safety of a railroad train.
The man who has a job in the
Tombs, or on Blackwell's island, or
Ward’s island, or in any of the other
penal institution, is under certain
strong obligations to his political
boss. There are gentlemen employed
in the Tombs from-the First assem
bly district. If they had not gone on
the excursion of the Huron club to
Witzel's grove the day prior to Fors
brey’s escape it would have been on
account of illness. That is the only
excuse they could have offered to ac
count for their absence from that
function. But a lot of them went—
practically all that owed allegiance
to the downtown Tammany crowd.
They were busy all day long on the
outing entertaining their friends. It
is declared these people were tired
and languorous at night after they
got back and resumed their duties at
the Tombs. Among them was a night
keeper, who should have been punch
ing the time clock every hour, but he
slumbered. Night Warden Jones, who
had charge of the jail in the hours
of darkness, is said to have awak
ened him again and again. A gong
rings in the warden’s office when the
clock is punched, and it was the fail
ure of the gong to ring that warned
Jones that the night keeper was
"dead to the world.” When the
time came^for this man to punch the
gong at 3:30 a. tn. the whole Tombs
was alive with the news of Forsbrey’s
escape.
No Trace of Escaped Prisoners.
Nothing has been seen or heard of
Witson or of Forsbrey. Probably the
police have followed the French cus
tom, "cherchez la.femme,” in trying
to locate their whereabouts. The girl
who smuggled the saws and acid and
other things to Forsbrey Is now in a
Catholic institution. Just who was
Witsoil’s woman friend —and it is
more or less sure he had one —is
not known. The escapes of Whitson
and Forsbrey offer an absolute blank
ness of trail in the world outside the
Tombs. The pictures of these two
criminals have been published far and
wide. They are in every police sta
tion. They have been studied by more
than 10,000 men whose business it is
supposed to be to capture them. Their
habits, their haunts and their gener
al characteristics are widely known.
But they are no nearer being found,
apparently, than they were immediate
ly after they decamped.
Probably the most, famous escape
from the Tombs was Sharkey's, in
1872. Sharkey was locked up there
for the murder of a man named Dunn.
This, of course, was in the old pris
on. A woman named Maggie Jordan
was Sharkey’s sweetheart, and, thanks
to her influence and her money, she
visited him every day in his cell. She
always came heavily veiled, and as
she passed the five different gatekeep
ers that stood between Sharkey’s cell
and the outer world she always had
a pleasant word and a bit of a gift for
each. Sometimes it was whisky,
sometimes a box of cigars, and some
times an invitation to visit her house
up town and pass a pleasant evening.
At any rate, Maggie Jordan con
tinued visiting Sharkey in his cell day
after day. She was permitted to spend
as long a time as she wished in the
cell, the door being left unlocked. One
day after she had departed a keeper
went to Sharkey’s cell to pass the
time of day with him and to ask if
there was anything he wanted. He
found Maggie Jordan there, dressed in
Sharkey’s clothes. Sharkey himself
had donned Maggie Jordan’s garments
and. heavily veiled, had walked out
past all the keepers.
Sharkey Provad Ungrateful.
Sharkey’s life was due to the full
measure of devotion that this woman
had given him, yet in the end he
showed himself a base'ingrate. She
had risked everything for him. She
had given him her money, her love
and had risked her liberty. A.fter his
escape, so goes the story, he fled as
she had planned. He wandered here
and there on the face of the earth.
The police were befogged, just as they
are now about Witson and Forsbrey.
Maggie Jordan was arrested, of
course, but afterward she was re
leased. She was a heroic figure in the
eyes of a lot of New Yorkers. There
Is a certain sentiment among men in
New York that is a good deal like
that which prevails in Paris where a
woman is concerned. There always is
something appealing in such an action
as that of Maggie Jordan’s.
After her release from prison Mag
gie Jordan wandered here and there.
The police watched her constantly.
There were spies among her servants,
even among her neighbors. Every
hour in the day some one was on the
watch to find some avenue of com
munication that was open between
Maggie Jordan and Sharkey. But she
was as clever outside the Tombs as
she had been inside. She fooled them
all. and one day she disappeared.
The next thing heard of Maggie
Jordan she was in the Canary Islands,
and Sharkey was with her. She was
happy there for a time, but it was
only a little while. Sharkey was a
brute. He ill treated her; he beat
her. He subjected her to every in
dignity. One day a woman, broken
hearted, shabbily dressed, with very
little money, stepped off a steamer
that arrived in New York. It was
Maggie Jordan, back from “foreign
parts.” Her romance was over.
But time heals the wounds of the
mind as well as those of the body.
Not many years after her return from
the Canary islands, where she had
left Sharkey, she was the same beau
tiful, fascinating bit of femininity she
had been before she had known him
and before she had made fools of the
keepers in the Tombs. She lived very
quietly, and one day she married one
of the most popular actors in America.
They were a loving, devoted couple for
nearly twenty years. He has been
dead these ten years or more. She Is
living uptown now, a silver-haired
widow whom few indeed ever suspect
to have been the Maggie Jordan who,
twoscore years ago, was the most
talked of woman In America.
Named for Gambler.
The recent police raid on a pre
sumed professional gambling house in
the west end provided an incident of
great rarity nowadays. The west end
was once a hotbed of such houses. It
is perhaps not generally known that
Panton street was named after CoL
Thomas Panton, a celebrated game
ster at the time of the Restoration,
who was the last proprietor of the
gaming house called Picadilly Hall,
and won in one night as many thou
sands as purchased him an estate of
above £1,500 a year.
"After this good fortune.” we are
told, "he had such an aversion against
all manner of games that he would
never handle cards ar dice again; but
lived very handsomely on his winnings
to his dying day.”—T. P.’s Weekly.
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1912
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