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M’CORD ATTACKS
CDURT’S 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 cive 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 case 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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Wildest Jungles Penetrated for
Road—Wife Drives the
Golden Spike.
Dispatches from Brazil today an
nounce that tremendous preparations I
are in progress for the formal opening,
on July 4. of the wonderful new Ma
deria-Mamoera railroad, which, aftet
having been abandoned nearly 50 years,
has been penetrated successfully
through 250 miles of the densest jun
gle land in the world ,by an Atlantan,
Arthur purt Jekyll.
The president of the republic, many
officials and several regiments of the
army will be. present to pay tribute to
the triumph of Mr. Jekyll, and Mrs.
’ Jekyll, his bride, will pull the throttle
that starts the first train bound 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 & 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
j sister at No. 674 Washington street five
i years ago. when he got a telegram
[ from one of his partners about the Bra-
■ zilian government being about to make
one last desperate attetnpt to put
1 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 right 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
I lost some couple of hundred m»n with
. fever and snakebite and had sunk a
■ million dollars in that swamp with
f 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
1 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
1 its fastnesses than any man had ever
gone before. Then he had a talk with
, Percival Farquhar, who was resident
t director of the $200,000 In English cap
’ Ital that had been subscribed to help
the government put through the road.
j That talk resulted in a contract.
■ Three months later Jekyll was again
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. .FUXE 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 husky 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 miles of the toughest tangled
jungle South America ever grew.
Her Idea of a Honeymoon.
Once, meanwhile he bad 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
veil to take you back with me to the
Madeira country to see that railroad
of ours finished up.”
Miss Bush 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 Fended 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 lhe 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 hfs 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 he 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.
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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 Pharnty. 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
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 SSO to take the
examination for him. Upon the heels
of this the authorities of the Atlanta
. college expelled the young men. They
would 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
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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, Judge John T. Pendleton and Dr. E. L.
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