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We Atlmrta Sotirnal VOL. XXIII. NO. 35. PERITONITIS KILLED SHEPARD. DECLARES DR, C.JUARROLD Macon Surgeon Who Oper ated on Peach King, Says There Was No Evidence That He Was Poisoned BY ED. H. BBADLEY (Staff Correspondent of The Journal) MACON, Ga., Dec. 20.—Testimony support of the contention that Fred D. Shepard, wealthy Fort Val ley peach grower, died of peritonitis, and not from bichloride of mercury poisoning, was introduced today at the preliminary hearing of the four defendants charged with Shepard’s murder. Judge H. A. Mathews, pre siding at the hearing, had refused to entertain a motion to discharge all four of the defendants on the ground that the state had failed to make out a case against them. This motion was made by counsel for the defense immediately after Solicitor General Charles A. Garrett had an nounced that the state would rest its case. This announcement was made at 11:40 o’clock, and the defense •traightway opene dits case by in troducing as a witness the surgeon who performed the operation on Shepard a few hours before his death. The state had put up only three witnesses at the morning session, de voting its efforts to an attempt to •how that certain valuable docu ments, such Vs bonds 'and checks, which were in possession of Fred D. Shepard on he night before his death, turned up in possession of Ernest Hopson, one of the defendants, a few days later. Solicitor General Garrett, after ex amining these witnesses, announced that while he reserved the right to introduce two more witnesses who had failed to appear, he would rest the state’s case. Counsel for the de fense then formally moved for the discharge of all four of the defend ants, Mrs. F. E. Elmer, former wife of Shepard, Mrs. loma Henry, her sister, Ernest Hopson, her son by her first marriage, and Mrs. Annie Cutts. Judge Mathews refused to enter tain this motion, declaring that a non-suit was unheard of in a crim inal case. He instructed the de fense to proceed with its case, in troducing evidence, if desired, or pro ceeding immediately with arguments. Says Peritonitis Killed Shepard The defense began the development of its case by placing on the wit ness stand Dr. C. C. Harrold, well known Macon surgeon and formerly a major in the medical corps of the army. He said he performed the operation on Fred Shepard on June 1, finding that the patient was suf fering from peritonitis. He found no perforations of the intestines or oth er abdominal organs, he declared, but apparently the inflammation of the peritoneum was not communi cated from the intestines. v "There was nothing to indicate that Shepard was poisoned,” said Dr. Harrold, ‘‘and I did not suspect poi soning.” Asked by General Harris as to whether peritonitis such as that found in Shepard could be caused by bichloride of mercury poisoning. Dr. Harrold declared that he had never seen or heard of a case where bi chloride of mercury ever caused peri tonitis. ‘‘Bichloride of mercury, if it does not cause death within a day or two, would not be fatal for several days an dwould not cause much pain,” said the surgeon. ’T should conclude that trace of mercury was due to the calomel.” Dr. Harrold was asked as to the effect of alcohol on the intestines and stated that confirmed whiskey drink ers often suffer from inflammation of the intestines. "General peritoni tis such as Mr. Shepard suffered may arise from several causes,” said the witness. "I don’t think Shepard died fro many poison, but from general peritonitis and paralytic ilium.” Under cross-examination of So licitor Gefieral Garrett, Dr. Harrold declared that if there was a slough ing off of mucouns membrane from the intestines of Shepard, it was caused by something beside periton itis. He stated also that the symp toms of mercurial poisoning are in tense pain, nausea, dysentery and in tense inflammation of the internal organs. Dr. Harrold’s was only partially completed when yeess was taken until 3 o’clock. Say« E. Hopson Bost Money The first witness to take the stand when Judge Mathews convened court at 10:30 o’clock, was W. B. White, city marshal of Perry. He testified that about September 15 he was told by Ernest Hopson, one'of the defendants, that he (Hopson) had lost about $15,000 in Liberty bonds, S3OO in cash and certain valuable papers. Mr. White was not cross examined. T. S. Chapman, sheriff-elect of Houston county, told of having been notified by Hopson to the same ef fect, Hopson saying that he wished to keep it quiet for a few days. J. N. jonnson, overseer on one of Fred Shepard’s farms, testified that on May 28 he gave Shepard an in dorsed check for $25, which was pro duced in court and identified by the witness. The check was cashed at a bank in Abbeville on June 4 by E. Hopson, according to the records as shown on the face of the instru ment. The state claims that Shepard had the check in his wallet at the time of his death and that the check was actually cashed three days after his death. The state then offered in evidence an application made by Mrs. Pauline J. Shepard Elmer to the Houston county ordinary for letters of ad ministration on Fred D. Shepard’s estate. Mrs. Elmer’s credentials as administratrix, her bond to the ordi nary and the document alleged to be the last will of the. deceased peach (Continued on Page 6, Column 6) Keeler Pinch Hits for Fat Reporter and Runs Into Real ‘Moonshine Story EY O. B. KEELE3 Pinch-hitting for a fat reporter named Baughn. 1 went over to the federal building, commonly known as the postoffice, Saturday morning, and I got into Commissioner Brown’s office with no particular reason in mind for going, and there was an elderly, frail-looking man'with white hair and pale blue eyes talking to Mr. Brown, and it didn’t seem to be an executive session, so I listened. And now I ask you people who live in a large and fairly orderly and reasonably comfortable city, protect ed by police and bright lights, to read this account of what I heard from that elderly, slender man with the pale-blue eyes, talking in a low, dven voice, in as matter-of-fact a manner as your neighbor would tell about the plans for a Christmas tree at the Sunday school. "We stopped the car about half a mile from Old Man Garrett’s house, but in plain sight, and got out, leav ing the taxi-driver in the car. We went on into the woods, and we ran up on a big still, before we were really looking to find it. We divided and Jackson went on one side, and Causey on the other, and I advanced in the middle, and we bagged the crew a white man and two negroes. It was a big still; 300 gallons. There was 3,000 gallons of ‘beer’ and four gallons of whisky and 64 fer menters. There were guns—shot guns at the place. We destroyed the outfit and took the prisoners and the guns and went back to where we had left the car.” Shooting Begins So far, this was merely a diverting narrative of a "raid.” the kind that the prohibition officers—formerly the “revenooers”—put on nearly ev ery day, in parts of our grand old commonwealth removed from the bright lights of Peachtree, which at times are doubled by the diplopia or double-vision resulting from the in ternal application of the product of these manufactories. It was inter esting enough, but I didn’t know what the elderly man was talking about, except that it was a raid. Now. then— “ The car was gone /when we got back. We could see it, up by old man Garrett’s house. The driver saw us and started driving back towards us. Two men came running after the car. carrying guns. Another was following at a distance. The car reached us first. We made the pris oners get in. Then the two men came up. The third had disap peared.” This was beginning to get inter esting. scented a scrap. Still without realizing what was coming, I could feel my scalp beginning to prickle. What was the man going to say next? "I was standing by the front of the car. Causey was next and Jack son at the rear. The two men com ing up were Johnny Garrett and Na poleon Garrett. Johnny held a big, old-fashioned rifle and a revolver. He stopped in front of Jackson. Na poleon came toward me. He was holding a double-barreled shotgun, aimed straight at my stomach. “Napoleon Garrett said to me: ‘Step over here. I want to talk to you.’ He had the drop on me. I walked over where he Indicated. He then said: ‘Damn you—don’t come too close.’ I was iust saying that we could talk without guns being pointed when there came a pistol shot from where Jackson and Johnny Garrett were standing, and then an other, and another. Died With a Smile "I looked around. Jackson and Garrett were close together. They seemed to be holding each other, each using one hand. With the other hand each was pumping revolver shots into the other’s body. There was a smile on Jackson’s face. . . . The other Garrett had his gun shov ed against my stomach. Causey could not fire at the other Garrett because Jackson was between them. Napoleon Garrett swung his gun away from me and shot Jackson, point-blank. The blast of the gun seemed to knock him over. As he fell, Causey opened on Johnny Gar rett with a jiumpgun, and I reached for the nearest gun we had taken at the still, leaning against the car, and shot Napoleon Garrett. He went down on his face, moaning and blubbering. At the same time Johnny Garrett fell, after firing once at Causey. He was shot almost to pieces with .45- caliber bullets from' Jackson's revolv er, and with buckshot from Causey’s pumpgun. “Johnny Garrett was dead. We believed Napoleon Garrett was dying right there. As I turned him over to take the gun from under him there came a shot from the woods. I be lieved it was the third man, who had followed the others—one of the Garrett brothers, I suppose. Causey returned the fire. There were no more shots from the woods. Napo leon Garrett was gasping very week ly. We considered him the same as dead. We couldn’t handle all the prisoners and take care of Jackson, too. and the white man, Wadsworth, got away. We drove with Jackson to Butler. He died an hour and a half after being shot. His last words were: ‘Well, boys. I stuck with you.’ He died with a smile on his sac was always smiling.” Recital of Baid It seems I had stumbled into a first-hand recital of the story of the raid last Wednesday on a still in Tailor county. At the office of D. J. Gantt, the prohibition superviser, I saw the guns—the rifle carried by Johnnie Garrett was a big old Swiss Vetterlin army/ rifle. It was not loaded. Through the hardwood stock under the barrel was the hole make by a 45-caliber bullet from Mr. Jack son’s revolver. It was about where a man’s left hand would be. There also was the single-barreled shotgun I with which the man who told the story had shot down Napoleon Gar rett; and the double-barrel gun with which Napoleon had killed Mr. Jack son. I was told that Mr. Jackson’s blood covered the revolver used by the other Garrett, and that the shots had set Mr Jackson's clothing on fire, so close was the range. The narrator of this story was E. G. English prohibition officer. The officer -who zas killed was R. W. Jackson. The other officer in the raid was S. J Causey. ‘They knew it was going to be a rough job.” said Mr. Gantt. "The Garretts had a bad reputation. The local police were supposed to help the agents out, but our men had to go it alone. I believe the Garretts came down to the car intent on ‘get ting’ English, who lives in the vic inity. We have a wire this morning that Napoleon Garrett is expected to recover, and is under arrest. He is to be taken to a Macon hospital today, if he is able to be moved. He was shot in the shoulder and breast.” Third Agent Killed Recently In his report to the national pro hibition officer at Washington, Mr. Gantt called attention to the fact that Jackson was the third agent to (Continued on Page 6, Column 4) 5 CONGRESS ABANDONS CHRISTMAS BECESS FOR HEMGRIM WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—8 y aban doning the usual Christmas-New Year’s recess for the first time in years, congressional leaders plan to put through a he program this week and present several pieces of legislation to the nation as holiday gif’ Farmers’ relief measures hold the leading places on the program which contemplates final adoption of the resolution to revive the war finance corporation, passage by the house be fore Christmas of the emergency tar iff bill relating to agricultural prod nets and progress on several other | 1t... .. measures. The house will adjourn Thursday over Christmas, until the following Monday, while the senate, with its holiday program still uncertain, ap peared to lean toward a partial ces sation by means of three-day re cesses until after New Year’s day. The war finance resolution adopted yesterday by the house will go back to the senate tomorrow, either for immediate acceptance of the house amendment eliminating suggestions to the federal reserve board for farm loans or for a brief eonft-rence. The resolution is expected to go to President Wilson early in the week with speculation v I as to the outcome in case of an exe ? veto. Girl Bandit Stages Three Bold Holdups On Chicago Streets CHICAGO, Dec. 19.—A pretty girl with a pearl-handled revolver today played the leadirfg part in three day light holdups in the north side resi dential district. In each case she pretended to be lost, stopped a passerby and asked him to direct her to an address which always proved to be only a few doors distant. Generally the person volunteered to point out the exact place, but when it was reach ed the pearl-handled revolver was placed against their side and were ordered to go in or get filled with lead. Inside, two men completed the holdup and tied the victim to a bed. Then the girl went out after another victim. After three men had been robbed and tied thevbandits left. One of the victims broke loose and notified the police. Two men. and a girl were arrested tm? in connfection -ith the rob beries, but denied they were impli cated. Charge Attempt at “Resurrection” of Ashburn Minister ASHBURN, Ga., Dec. 19.—What county authorities say was an attempt at “resurrection,” was re vealed here today, when the body of the Rev. Robert H. Rouse, who died three years ago, was found beside his grave. Mrs. Rouse was in the courthouse a week ago, the sheriff said, at which time, she is quoted as having declared she still expected her husband to ‘rise from the grave in answer to her prayers.” The sheriff says that a week ago he used force to prevent the “resur rection. $50,000 Fire in Reidsville, N. C. REIDSVILLE, N. C„ Dec. 20. Fire, believed to have been of incen diary origin, early today destroyed the Farmers' warehouse and several small stores, causing damage esti mated at aproximately $50,000. A CHRISTMAS GIFT Holding open The Tri-Weekly Journal’s remarkable TWENTY FIVE CENT OFFER is nothing short of being a CHRISTMAS GIFT. Be Santa Claus to yourself—or to somebody else. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in pennies, silver,, Stamps, money order or check and get the SOUTH’S GREATEST PAPER for THREE x MONTHS. Or send The Tri-Weekly Journal to a friend or rela- • ~ tive as x a Christmas present. Listen! The trifling sum of $1 will give FOUR FRIENDS a gift that will remind them of your thought fullness THREE TIMES A WEEK for THREE MONTHS! And if ) you send Si for FOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS you get the paper YOUR SELF for three months WITHOUT COST! This is CHRISTMAS WEEK. Give yourself the benefit of either one of the two offers • detailed below. Mail the coupon TODAY! CLIP THE COUPON! CLIP THE COUPON! The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga.: The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga.: Enclosed find 25c. Send me Tri-Weekly Journal Enclosed find sl. Send The Tri-Weekly Journal for three months from date this is received. for three months to the following four addresses. Also extend my subscription three months as per your offer. Name Names Postoffice R. F. D. P.O ! State R. F. D. No your own name and address on line above. \ > ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1920. ONLY CLUES FOUND BURL POLICE IRE ABANDONED TOOLS "Job” Evidently Professional One Among Articles Overlooked Was a $4 ( 000 Necklace Yeggmen entered the big depart ment store of Keely company at Whitehall and Hunter streets Sunday night, blew the ~afe, prized open the record vault, and escaped with money, checks, bonds, jewelry and furs valued at between $15,000 and $20,000. It was evidently a professional "job.” carefully planned and perfect ly executed. The police believe it was done by the same gang that a year ago cracked the safe of the Chamberlin - Johnson - Dußose com pany, another department store in the heart of the shipping district. Supporting this theory are the tools abandoned by the yeggmen— the only clues the police have to work on. The wire and the soap used by the robbers are of the same type found after the Chamberlin-Johnson- Dußose company robbery. A ham mer, a chisel, and a drill were found. So were a pair of gloves, show ing how shrewdly the yeggmen work ed to avoid finger-prints, and a large candle, apparently furnishing all the light they had. Job Done Sunday, Belief It is certain the safe was blown Sunday night or possibly early,Mon day morning. Members of the Keely company were at the store late Sun day afternoon and left certain docu ments in the safe. Thurston Hatcher, the Whitehall street photographer, the rear windows of whose office open within a few yards of Keely’s store, was at work until 11 o’clock Sunday night. He believes he would have heard the explosion, even though muffled, had it occurred before he went home. The robbers made their entrance either through the basement or across a roof on the Whitehall street side of the store. The windows of th,e office where the vault was located open on this roof. One of them was found open Monday morning. A win dow in the cellar also was found open. If the robbers came in from White hall street, they went up a stairway leading over Cone’s drug store. On the second floor are a beauty shop, a tearoom and Mr. Hatcher’s studio. Using a skeleton key, they could have-entered the beauty shop or the tearoom and crawled through their windows onto the roof. From thence it is only a few steps to the second floor of Keely company, on the same level with the roof. Overlook $4,000 Necklace The record vault is on the side of the office nearest the roof. It Is a big vault, about 10 by 10 feet, in which a man may stand erect. But the lock apparently was not dif ficult to as the robbers did not have to blow it. They drilled a small hole next the combination and then wrecked it. prying open the door. Inside they pried open the doors of several boxes that were locked. They did not disturb the record books in their shelves, but they rifled the boxes. Here they got Liberty bonds, jewelry and cash, most of it the property of members of the firm and employes of the store. Among the articles taken from the vault were two diamond rings, valued at $1,350, held as collateral for a note. They took Liberty bonds, but left other bonds, some of them valuable. (Continued on Page 6, Column 3) FINE! THE / '"WuM/ COUAJCH- MAS CHOSEN AS A M_OD_EL, STATE > I To A,Ev/ ' Rural. \ 7 ' 7 ///f'/, PLAN" - LET U 5 LIVE UP J / / 'V/y/ 7 R.EPUTATIO/J 3'' \ \ I A v \ (.. WtL m tWlw •*‘l □ n n n n f 1 n n n n 11 iFisH J x 7* FARMERS’ UNION TO HOLD MEETING AT STATE CAPITOL The annual meeting of the Geor gia division of the Farmers’ union, will be held next Tuesday and Wed nesday, December 21 and 22, in the house of representatives in the state capitcl. J. H. Mills, president of the Geor gia division, will preside aud deliver the annual address. Among other speakers will be Charles S. Barrett, national president of the Farmers’ union; L. M. Rhodes, commissioner of markets of Florida, and J. J. Brown, commissioner of agriculture of Georgia. Reports will be made by a number of co-operative marketing enterprises launched in Georgia within the past year Also, on co-operating market ing enterprises organized in various states at the instance of the Farm ers’ union. Co-operative marketing will be one of the main features of the program. The convention will also outline a program of educational and agricul tural legislation which it will ask the general assembly to pass at the next session. Robbers Blow Safe Os Orangeburg Bank ORANGEBURG, S. C., Dec. 18.— Robbers entered the Farmers’ bank at Parler, S. C., 16 miles from here, ear ly today, and after blowing the safe made their escape with SSOO in cash and Liberty bonds said to amount to SIO,WO. GEORGIA IS PROUD! Tar and Feathers For Man Who Disliked Use of Word “Hun” JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 19. John D. Bischcff, real estate opera tor, was tarred and feathered last hight\ by unknown citizens and from a curtained automobile at one of the busiest corners in the downtown section. A card pinned on his chest read: “Herr John Bischoff, Hun.” His hands were tied behind his back and his feet were bound. Bischoff several days ago sent a letter to the Metropolis', the local afternoon paper, criticizing the man agement for the publication of dis patcher. which, he declared, were detrimental to a friendly interest with Germany and particularly criti cizing the use of the word Hun in connection with such dispatches. Quimby Melton, editor of the pa per, in a front page signed editorial, answered Bischoff in a caustic vein. Hundreds of people, downtown theatergoers, last night saw the un usual sight when Bischoff was dumped into the street. None rec >gnized any of the men in the car. Bischoff was taken to police head quarters and then sent home. When dumped in the street he wore a suit of underwear, a generous coat ing of tar, still warm, and feathers. Japan’s Population Is Million Below Previous Estimates TOKIO, Dec. 19. —Japan’s popula tion, as revealed by the census re cently completed, is more than 1,000,- 000 under the estimate. The total number of persons in the empire is 77,005,000, of which 55,960,000 are in Japan, and 17,284,000 in Korea. CALL TRADING IN WHEAT FUTURES MERE GAMBLING WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—A "large s volume” of future trading in wheat t is "mere gambling” involving great 1 economic waste and should be ’ stopped by congressional legislation, i the federal trade commission wrote k President Wilson today. [ The commission’s communication • constituted its report in reply to ; the president’s request of a study ; for the causes of falling wheat ■ prices. The edmmission advised the president it has no power to prevent . importation- of foreign wheat as de manded by farmers hit by falling ' prices. The commission also recommended 1 that government selling machinery be set up to deal with centralized wheat buying agencies now main tained in the United States by for eign governments to protect the far mer against possible price manipu lation* by the agencies. Seven factors combine to reduce prices in the United States, the com mission reported. These factors were given as (1) a world wheat crop bigger than in 1919; (2) concentra tion of foreign government buying in ' one commission which bought heavily in the spring but later re duced its demands; (3) unprecedented importations from Canada this fall coupled with a discount rate of ex change; (4) the record breaking yield of corn and oats which helped to depress wheat prices; (5) slack ening of the domestic demand for flour this fall; (6) general decline of all commodity prices, and (7) change in credit conditions “with the result ing disposition of distributors to refrain from accumulating or main tanifig usual stocks,” until conditions are stabilized. “Wheat has declined in price less than many commodities,’’ the com mission wrote, “and less than most agricultural products, on the basis of wholesale prices.” “The decline in prices would ap pear to be in part due to country wide and worldwide conditions. Abrupt changes in prices and com paratively low prices have occurred following changes in volume of pro duction, variations in demand from year to year and marketing uneven ly distributed through the seasons. An improvement in the situation would follow from greater regular ity of production from year to year insofar as such regularity is sub ject to human achievement and a more even marketing of grain thrdugh the year. “While the commission believes that speculation in wheat futures is not an indispensable part of the marketing process and may some time be highly injurious, the com mission is not in this respect pass ing upon the whole subject of fu ture trading. Future contracts may have a legitimate use for “hedging.” In this connection it is claimed that future trading performs an insurance function where ordinary insurance methods would not be practicable and that undue restriction of future tra ding such as would deprive the grain trade of this service might re sult in grain dealers requiring larger margins and consequently result either in lower prices to the farmer or higher prices to the consumer. "Without now expressing an opin ion on this subject, it appears that there is a large volume of future trading that is mere gambling and involves great economic waste. The remedy for this lies in congression- ( al action to prevent trading which is 1 essentially gambling.” Monster Chicken Hawk Killed Near Juliette JULIETTE, Ga., Dec. 19.—A morn ter chicken hawk, measuring four feet i and six and a half inches from tip to tip and weighing four pounds, was killed Friday by Bertram Singley i near Juliette. When it was killed, 1 the hawk was devouring a chicken it : had caught in the yard of the Singley home. The hawk had been preying ’ on chickens in the neighborhood for i sometime and a price had been set 1 on its head. It was said to be the largest one ever seen in this sec- . tion. , l; 5 CENTS A COPY. x $1.50 A YEAR. raEWDISCLDSURES ARE MADE IN WIRE ’ TAPPINGGAMEHERE Elaborate Barricades and "Listening Posts” Used by Gamblers in Their Quar ters in Sans Souci Hotel The fact that the gambling flen. said to have been conducted by Floyd Woodward, alleged "brains” <g the gambling syndicate, knd J. C. Mc- Bride, at 59 1-2 Cone street, under the name of the Sans Souci hotel, was closely guarded by iron doors, electrical devices, and a sentinel and that a full equipped periscope was used to view all persons who desir ed entrance to the place; also that a member of the legislature of the state of Virginia, was victimized out of nearly SIO,OOO, his entire ' fortune, and that R. W. Eubanks, | an Atlanta man, is under arrest and held on SIO,OOO bond as a result of the gambling probe, was revealed I Saturday. It was also declared that the al leged wire-tappers and swindlers con- I ducted their operations at 45 Car- I negie Way and in a place on the ■ second floor of a building, corner J of Peachtree and Auburn avenue, "i-t r was in the latter place where the Virginia assemblyman is said to have been fleeced. At the Carnegie Way building, it was stated. W. R. Manning, of Dallas, Tex., was swindl ed out of $8,700, and Dr. Edwards, a South Carolina physician, is said to have lost $5,600 to the gamblers. That the confidence meh and pro fessional gamblers hovered close to the Sans Souci hotel, close to the quarters of Woodward, is evidenced by the information that a number of them occupied rooms at the Cecil hotel, a block away, at the time Ed Mills, well-known gambler, was shot and killed. Persons who were pres ent in the hotel at the time state that as much as SIOO,OOO in bills was seen displayed by some of the men during their stay at the hotel. It is also said that Mills knew an at tempt was to be made to "get” him. for a short time prior to his being killed in another hotel as he is said to have called the attention to the fact that a knife had been “planted” in his pocket and he said "they are try ing to make it appear after I’m kill ed that they acted in self defense.” Mcßride Had Permit ’ Re S ords of the city hall show th:V the Sans Souci hotel was operat'’ , under a permit issued to J. C Vi Bride, now under indictment f.» ’ maintaining a gaming house an » vagrancy, without any indorsemer: having been secured as to his cha acter or any police investigation ha\ V} s r, been made - It is claimed tha ► Mcßride has been a nrofessiom gambler and well-known bookmake in Atlanta and other cities for th past twenty years. It is also sai< that prior to his conducting the Sans Souci hotel he was convicted of a charge of gambling in Spartanburg, b. C. At the time the gamblers left the Sans Souci hotel it is said thev took the steel-barred doors from thn hotel, tore down the partition and carried away the electric lock at the entrance of the place and carried the paraphernalia to the gambling house at 49 1-2 Central avenue. Th hotel is now being conducted bv Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Lewis as the Gil sey House, a respectable rooming house. During their stay at the hotel the gamblers ar e alleged to have had the place well guarded. Entrance was gained through a door at the south end of the building on Cone street. An electric bell was installed which, when rung by a person desiring en trance. caused a negro sentinel on one of the upper floors to study the person with the aid of a periscope. If the visitor was adjudged to be all right he was admitted to the first floor, the door being opened by an electrical contrivance. At the sec ond floor the visitor was challenged again and then if found to be all right was allowed to go to the third floor, where the gambling Is alleged to have been going on. The sentinel —Americus Lee, a negro, now under Indictment for vagrancy and held in $25,000 bond—is said to have occu pied a position on the second floor and to be the manipulator of the periscope which commanded a view of the entire street below. Flaca Well Guarded The south side of the hotel, ac cording to former occupants, was par titioned off from the rest of the build ing and persons occupying rooms on the third floor were forced to ascen'd the first flight of stairs and walk the entire length of the building to mount the second flight. A door leading on to James street on the north side of the building was heav ily barred, and always kept locked. The transoms over the doors In the rooms in the excluded portion of the building were painted black to ex clude all light and to prevent any possible detection from the corri dors. Marks of the partitions, which, were torn down after the gamblers deserted the place, are still visible. Leading from one of the rooms in the excluded portion of the hotel, ac cording to a former negro maid, a home-made fire escape had been rigged which allowed a quick exit out the back way through a window Marks showing where double locks i were placed on some of the doors,-- are also visible. Information was gained from a former occupant of one of the rooms that an attempt was made to havt him leave the place by the increasing ; of his rent from $32 to SSO a month, i He said he continued to remain foi 1 a while, but the atmosphere becamefl such he found it was “no place for a a minister’s son.” using his own ex-V pression. This place, it is said, was operated ’ for more than a year unmolested by the police. On one occasion it is claimed the police detectives were notified that gambling was being con ducted at the hotel, and it is said that officers were sent to the scene, b” they returned, saying they wera able to find anything out of the way. R. W. Eubanks was arrested on a bench warrant issued by Judge John D. Humphries following the return ing of an indictment against him by the grand jury charging larceny after trust. It is said that Eubanks was implicated in the alleged swin dling operations carried on by the “gang" at 45 Carnegie way. The grand jury will continue its investigation of alleged gambling, horse racing and swindling Tuesday, and it is reported that many Indict ments will be returned during the week. The investigation has reached the point, it’ is said, <vhere Indict ments can be drawn, and it is Inti mated that a number of well-known Atlantians will be Involved in the meshes of the prob*.