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courts system
Grand Jury Foreman Declares
Many Criminals Escape Trial
by Various Loopholes.
That the county court system In At
lanta is so cumbrous, so full of loop
holes for delay, that a criminal may
escape trial for years, was charged by
Joseph A. McCord in his remarks be
fore the city clve commission. Mr. Mc-
Cord is foreman of the present grand
jury, and has served on perhaps more
grand juries in the past ten years than
any other Atlantan. He was caustic
in his attack on the system.
"Men have told me that if they saw
a negro stealing a horse and wagon
they’d turn around and run rather than
report him, and be dragged to court
as a witness again and again,” declar
ed Chairman McCord. "And I don't
blame them Men and women are sum
moned as witnesses: a lawyer is re
ported ill, the defendant, out on bond,
of course is unable to appear, or some
one of a thousand reasons for delay
is given and accepted. Witnesses lose
day after day in these needless delays.
"It is possible for an offender to ob
tain delays for year after year, until
finally the ease Is forgotten and drop
ped. It is not the fault of Judge
Calhoun. I am not censuring him. It
Is the fault of the machinery of the
courts—the system."
Chairman McCord is working hard to
get an amendment to the charter giv
ing the city recorder the right to try
“trifling" cases before a jury of five
men, without the necessity of recourse
to the state courts. The city will doubt
less ask for a law covering the sub
ject. City Attorney James L, Mayson
believes it will be necessary to obtain
the passage of a general law, appli
cable to all cities of more than 50,000
or 100,000 population.
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Atlantan Builds Big Brazil R. R.
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Wildest Jungles Penetrated for
Road—Wife Drives the
Golden Spike.
Dispatches from Brazil today an
nounce that tremendous preparations!
ire In progress for the formal opening,
on July 4, of the wonderful new Ma
rieria-Mamoera railroad, which, aftet
having boon abandoned nearly 50 years,
has been penetrated successfully
through 250 miles of the densest jun
gle land in the world by an Atlantan,
trthur Burt Jekyll.
The president of the republic, many
■fficials and several regiments of the
army will be present to pay tribute t<*
the triumph of Mr. Jekyll, and Mrs.
Jekyll, his bride, will pull the throttle
that starts the first train hound sea
ward with an unprecedented shipment
of rubber to American ports.
A Soldier of Fortune.
If ever there was a real, live, moving
soldier of fortune Burt Jekyll is that
soldier. He’s a member of the big
contracting firm of May, Jekyll A- Ran
dolph, of New York, and that firm has
been doing nothing but digging holes
in South America, building railroads
and canals where there wasn't anything
but jungle ’and swamps and snakes be
fore for the past 20 years.
Jekyll had just come home to see his
sister at No. 674 Washington street five
years ago, when he got a telegram
from one of his partners about the Bra
zilian government being about to make
one last desperate attempt to put
through the Madeira road and wanting
to pay some tremendous price to any
American engineer that thought the
great task might, be possible.
Jekyll knew that the Madeira route
was designed to pass righi through the
heart of the thickest South American
jungle, so as to open up a stretch of
pathless land to the immense rubber
trade of Bolivia. He knew that 50
years ago, even before old Dom Pedro’s
time, the American contracting firm of
Collins Brothers, of Philadelphia, had
tried to build that same road and had
lost some couple of hundred men with
fever and snakebite and had sunk a
million dollars In that swamp with
nothing to show for it but an aban
doned five miles of weed grown track.
A War on Mosquitoes.
Jekyll’s partners told him that there
wasn't a ghost of a chance in a million
of building the remaining 250 miles
of the line, but he said he'd take a
look’ at it anyway and he went down
to godforsaken land from Atlanta, look
ed over the jungle and got deeper into
its fastnesses than any man had ever
gone before. Then he had a talk with
Percival Farquhar, who was resident
director of the $2(10,000 in English cap
ital that had been subscribed to help
the government put through the road.
That talk resulted in a contract.
Three months later Jekyll was again
The Indian Players in HIAWATHA at Inman Park
Daily at 4:00 and 8:30 o. m. (Sunday excepted).
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 19. 1912.
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Here are the latest pictures of
Burt Jekyll, the Atlanta South
American contractor, and Mrs.
Jekyll, his bride of a year.
upon the spot with 5.000 huskj- Amer
ican railroad builders. He didn’t tackle
the jungle right away, but he put his
men to work killing off the mosquito
descendants of the deadly brood that
had slain the hundreds of Collins men,
and he had built high-stilted, screened
quarters and made the company head
quarters as sanitary as his government
confreres up in Panama. Then the ma.
chinery came, and with saws and axes,
snake guns and steam shovels that
American band started again to cut
away 250 Tniles of the toughest tangled
jungle South America ever grew.
Her Idea of a Honeymoon.
Once, meanwhile he had gone to New
York for some more machinery and
while he was there on his hurried trip
he met Miss Grace Bush, of Brooklyn,
and asked her to marry him, and she
said she would.
■ Well." said Jekyll, “I'd like awfully
well to take you back with me to the
Madeira country to see that railroad
of ours finished up.”
Miss Bu=h said that that was her
idea of a honeymoon. And so the sol
dier of fortune and the Brooklyn soci
ety belle were married without more
adieu and took a fruit steamer to Rio
and then sailed up the 1.000 miles of
Amazon, and rode on mules’ backs
through Jekyll's rended jungle until
they got to the terminal near the Bo
livian frontier. A month after they
arrived there the last rail was laid, one
day last month, and byway of crown
ing the honeymoon Jekyll called in all
the Brazilian government men and the
English capitalists and strung his 5.000
American workmen along the tracks
and festooned the trains with Ameri
can flags. A band played riotously and
Mrs. Jekyl came forth all tn white
and crowned her honeymoon by driving
the last golden spike with a silver ham
mer given by the President of Brazil.
On July 4 Jekyll and his wife are
going to be hero and heroine to the
formal opening of the wonderful line.
And all the gold lace of South America
will bo around and the American's tri
umph will be made complete when a
train loaded with Bolivian rubber will
start out amid much cheers and whis
tling and gun cracks for the Brazilian
ship that will be waiting on the Ama
zon 250 miles away to bear the load
across seas to the American market
that Jekyll and his men have made
possible.
After that Mr. and Mrs. Jekyll are
going to spend some more of their hon
eymoon at the handsome residence of
the sister of the soldier of fortune at
674 Washington street, Atlanta,
STUDENTSUNDER
Mil CHARGES
Alabama Board Asks Arrest of
Men Expelled From Atlanta
College of Pharmacy.
MONTGOMERY, ALA., June 19.
Wiley A.' Davis, of North Carolina, and
N. H. Freeman, of Mississippi, young
men, former students at the Atlanta
College of Pharmy, will be brought to
Alabama to answer charges of attempt
ing to obtain a pharmaceutical license
by fraud. If they can be located, ac
cording to the announcement of the
state board of pharmacy. The board
has just taken final action and declare
that warrants will be issued at once
for the arrest of the young men. where
upon Governor O’Neal will authorize
requisitions.
While students at the Atlanta College
of Pharmacy, last February, the board
charges, Davis stood the state exam
ination in Birmingham before the board
of pharmacy, representing himself as
Freeman. License was about to be is
sued when the board learned of the
s deal, and hastened to Atlanta for an
investigation. The board states offi
cially that Davis and Freeman made a
clean confession in Atlanta, stating that
Freeman gave Davis S6O to take the
examination -for him. Upon the heels
of this the authorities of the Atlanta
college expelled the young men. They
Mould have received diplomas the past
spring.
The board today refused to give out
the names of the Florida and Georgia
men who are alleged to have entered
into a similar transaction last fall The
board is awaiting a written opinion i
from the attorney general before mak- |
ing the names public, as the man from
Florida has threatened suit if publica
tion is made. The accused Georgia
man. the board indicated, conducted a
suburban pharmacy in Atlanta. ‘
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AUGUSTA, GA., June 19.—R. O.
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PLAY MARBLES AT PICNIC
It required a special train of live
coaches to transport the hundreds of Sec
ond Baptist church members from the
Union station to the picnic grounds at
Mount Gilead camp today.
Everybody carried a well filled basket
of good things to eat and there was one
of the biggest church dinners ever given
at Mount Gilead After the dinner, every
picnicker, from five to fifty years old,
joined In numerous games.
Judge John T. Pendleton and Dr. E. L.
Connally furnished reams of fun when
they got into their match game of ring
marbles.
The special train will not leave upon
the return until late this afternoon.
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The body of J. M. Land. 77 years old,
who died late yesterday, is at Poole's
chapel awaiting funeral arrangements.
Mr. Land lived at 15 Ridge avenue, with
two sons and one daughter.
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