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CITY BANK CLEARINGS BREAK RECORD
HORRORS OF
ILS.PRISON
EXPOSED
Former Guard Quit Job Because
It Was “Like Sending Men’s
Souls to Hell.”
One of the most shocking of all
the tales of the cruelty at the Atlan
ta Federal Prison since Julian Haw
thorne and Dr. W. J. Morton made
their sensational charges against
Warden William H. Moyer, was told
to The Georgian Saturday morning
by J. H. Archer, of Sumter, Ga_, for
two years a guard at the institution,
who says he quit because “It was
like sending men’s souls to hell!”
Mr. Archer's story of the things he
saw and the things he did during his
two years’ service under Warden
Moyer Is like a page ripped from some
Inquisition record. It Is a picture
of tortures and punishments hardly
conceivable in this enlightened age.
He bared the secrets of the "hole," a
place of torture that he says changed
strong men Into white-faced maniacs;
lie tells the details of how men were
•bained and shackled to the walls
■f a duugeon for days at a time, with
a slice of bread and a glass of water
their only fare; of men who were
thrust into the blackness of the "soli
tary” and came out Insane with the
desire to kill; of the man who, his
mind wrecked by the terrible silence
of the "hole,” and the strain of his
punishment, tore a great hole in his
side with a rusty nail and ground
tine particles of glass into his own
flesh; of the consumptive who was
locked in his cell and kept there until
he died, and there Is in his mind the
remembrance of the young prisoner
who lay for twenty days on the stone
floor of his cell without a morsel to
•at.
Moyer Began Use of "Hole.”
“It’s been several years since I
worked as guard at the Federal Pris
on," said Mr. Archer, “and things
may have changed, but in the light
of recent revelations I do not believe
they have. I was one of the first
guards who worked at the prison, I
went there while Warden Hawke was
in charge, and later Warden Moyer
■ame. The ‘hole’ was there when
Mr Hawke was there, but I do not
remember that he ever placed a pris
oner in It. But when Warden Moyer
came and took charge of the prison
there were always half a dozen poor
devils chained to the walls, their legs
shackled and their faces pressed
against the solid brick —slowly going
insane in the inky blackness and the
terrible silence.
"There is but one word to use in
speaking of the ’hole’ out there at
the prison. That word is hell. If there
is a hell on earth, it Is the dungeons
where prisoners are thrown for the
slightest Infraction of the prison
rules; where men’s souls are shrivel
ed and their bodies destroyed. The
men who are paying their debt to
society out there fear the terrors of
the ’hole’ more than they fear the
terrors of eternal damnation.
“I can't describe the 'hole.' No man
could do that; no man could describe
the agony of men who are forced to
stand for fifteen hours a day for days
at a time with their arms outstretch
ed. their noses flattened against solid
brick; their feet shackled together
standing all those hours in one posi
tion, In a cell that has never known
k ray of sunlight, In a darkness so
thick that It Is suffocating, and In a
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VOL. XII. NO. 103.
ELOPE IN AUTO, AWAKEN RURAL
PASTOR AND WED AT MIDNIGHT?
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Allaun, who are happy over fooling their friends.
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"Oh, it was such fun to fool our
friends! And so romantic!”
And that is the only reason, says
pretty Mrs. W. E. Allaun, daughter
of a New York millionaire banker and
prominent society girl of New York
and Newport News, Va., that she
eloped from Norfolk with Mr. Allaun
—who is known to his intimates as
"Top”—in a six-cylinder automobile,
and, after several hundred miles’ ride,
all cluttered up with Incident, landed
at the Piedmont Hotel in Atlanta,
where they are spending their honey
moon and receiving the blessings of
the folks at home.
He Can’t See the Romance.
"Why, of course it was romantic!”
exclaimed Mrs. Allaun. "The wild
ride through the forests of Virginia
and the mountains of the Carolinas,
the adventure with the constable and
the honor of being charter members
of the Grape Juice Club —why, of
course that was all romance!"
“Where's the romance," Mr. Al
laun demanded. "In running ahead of
a country constable and having the
car break down in a town of 200 peo
ple?"
Up to last Saturday night at mid
night Mrs. Allaun was Mts« Ann R.
Finch, daughter of M. A. Finch, cf
New York and Newport News. Mr
Allaun is a prominent clubman ?t
Norfolk, and is well known through
out the South, where most of his
business interests are.
They told all about how they hap
pened to do it Saturday morning.
"We have been engaged for years,
It seems,” said Mr. Allaun, "and ev
erybody kept asking us when they
were going to be Invited to the wed
ding. One of my friends got to brag-
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ging around that he was going to be
best man, and, of course, we Just had
to fool them. Nobody knew when we
were going to get married. We didn't
know ourselves until last Friday,
when we planned the whole thing.
"Saturday Mrs. Allaun came to Nor
folk and came to my office. I had my
automobile and chauffeur out in
front, and we calmly walked out and
got in like we were going for a ride.
We met severa lof our friends while
driving around Norfolk, but none of
them suspected. We left Norfolk just
befoie noon and drove the car to
Halifax, N. C., about 150 miles, get
ting there about 9:45 o’clock Saturday
night.
Married at Midnight.
"We woke up the Clerk of the Court
and made him give us a license, and
then a newspaper correspondent got
on our trail and we had to fly. We
motored over to Weldon, N. arriving
there shortly before midnight. We
woke up the Rev. J. A. Hornady, a
Methodist minister there, and were
married in front of an open flreplace.
"Sunday we drove the car to Dur
ham, N. C., where we wired our folks
that we were married. Monday we
drove to Greensboro, N. C„ and from
there to harlotte. Then we started
to Anderson and our honeymoon came
near breaking up.
“We were going something like 35
miles an hour through some little vil
lage when a country constable tried
to stop us. He yelled that we were
under arrest, and we turned the car
loose. The last we saw of the con
stable he was standing in the middle
of the road waving his arms and
veiling at the top of his voice."
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1913.
Burglars Invade
North Side Homes,
Terrifying Women
Burglars terrified women in two
North Side homes Friday night, and
though the police responded to .‘alls
as quickly as possible no clews to the
Intruders could be found.
Miss Bertha Franklin, who was
sleeping on the second floor of the
home of her brother. Charles Frank
line, at No. 14 West Fourteenth street,
awoke to find a man standing over
her with a flashlight. She screamed.
The burglar leaped out a window and
fled.
Mrs. J. Montagon was alone with
four little children at her home, No.
48 East Merritts avenue, when she
heard someone crawling on a tin roof
at the rear of the house. She called
the police by telephone and stood
guard with a ptstol.
RUN DOWN BY Al TO.
JACKSONVILLE. Nov. 29.—An
thony Germas is in St. Luke's Hos
pital with a broken rib and general
bruises. He was run down by an au
tomobile owned and driven by Charles
Wlchmann, proprietor of the Falstaff
Saloon.
1913 BIGGEST
DY MANY
MILLIONS
November Clearings $7,000,000
Over Same Month in 1912.
Week Shows Increase.
With the bank clearings for No
vember, 1913, exceeding by more than
seven million dollars the figures for
November a year ago, Indications
were Saturday that the clearings for
the year will exceed by many mil
lions of dollars any year In the his
tory of the Atlanta Clearing House
Association.
“Unless the clearings for Decem
ber fall far short of what they have
ever been for that month," said J.
G. Lester, secretary of the Clearing
House Association, Saturday morn
ing. “this year is going to be the big
gest we have ever had. and the clear
ings will compare very favorably
with any city In the United States.
"There are no figures available as
yet on the clearings for the year, but
indications are they will exceed any
other year by many millions of dol
lars."
The clearings for the month of No
vember, 191? were J 79.708.928.03, an
Increase of $7,186,516.03 over Novem
ber, lITTs. This increase is consid
ered remarkable, as there is usually
a falling off In bank clearings to
ward the close of the year.
An increase of the same generous
proportions is seen in the bank clear
ings for the week that closed Satur
day at noon, as compared with the
same week last year. This week the
clearings were 115,309,981.94, while
last year for the corresponding week
the clearings were only $13,128,±48.98,
a gain of more than two millions.
The clearings for this week are sev
eral million dollars smaller than last
week, but this failing off is but the
natural decrease always apparent aft
er the 15th of each month.
RACING
RESULTS
AT JAMESTOWN.
FIRST—Five and one-half furlongs:
Executor, 115 (Butwell), 3-9, 12, out,
won; Salon, 108 (Neander), 9-2, 8-5, 3-5,
dead heat; Captain Bums, 109 (Fair
brother), 9-2, 8-5, 3-5, third. Time 1:08.
Also ran: Supreme, Flask. Cooster and
Suwanee.
SECOND—About 2 miles, on grass:
Syosset, 146 (Turkey), 5 2. 6-5, 1-2. won;
Hagusa, 136 (Dupeej, 2, 7-10, 1-3, second;
Velsini. 132 < Keating), 12, 4,2, third.
Time 4:02 3-5. Also ran: Melos, Ordi
nary Nat, Azure Maid, Bronte and Clan
Alpine.
THIRD—MiIe and 70 yards: Colonel
Cook, 114 (Fairbrother), 1-4, out, won,
Billie Baker. 107 (Wolf), 25, 6, 8-5. sec
ond-; Mr. Specs. 11l (Mclntyre), 6, 3-5,
out, third. Time 1:46 3-6. Also ran:
Jim L.. The Urchin, Harvey F, Aware
and Bronte.
FOI’RTH—6 furlongs- Montressor,
HO (Wolf), 6-6, 11-20, 1-5, won; Sack
Cloth, 100 (Johnson), 50, 20, 8-6. sec
ond; Perthshire. 106 ißutwell), 10, 3,
7-5. third. Time, 114 3-6.
Sickle, Water Welles, Scallywag,
Quartermaster also ran.
FIFTH Six furlongs: Brynary 105
(Gairbrother) 6-5. 1-2. 1-t. won; Cap
tain Elliott 109 (Butwell). 5, 8-5, 4-5,
second; Montcalm 105 (Nolan), 7, 5-2,
6-5, third Time, 1:15 3-5. Also ran:
Veneta Strome. Joe Gaitens, O U Bus
ter. Reputation. Silas Grump. J. W. Kent
and Royal onyx.
3 Generations Take
Part in Initiation
DALTON, Nov. 29.—With his grand
father, R H. Baker, and his father,
F F. Baker, Sr., present and partici
pating in the work, F. F. Baker. Jr.,
at a special meeting of the Dalton
Ixdge, No. 106. Free and Accepted Ma
sons. was given the master’s degree,
rounding out three generations in the
family as enthusiastic Masons.
F. F Baker. Sr., is grand marshal of
the State Grand Lodge.
Copyright, ISOS.
Br Th® Georgian Ce.
LATEST NEWS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Mr,.
Francis Bowes Sayre, formerly Miss
Jessie Woodrow Wilson, sent a let
ter to the House thanking the mem
bers for their gift to her of a diamond
pendant. The letter was read in the
House to-day and received much ap
plause.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29.—Hib
bard Barrett, whose parents broke all
speed records from Chicago to this
city to reach his bedside, died to-dav
in the Hahnemann hospital. He was
22 years old and a student of the
Haverford college. The young man
was the son of William A. Garrett,
Vice President of the Chicago Great
Western railroad. He had been ill
about ten days with heart trouble.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 By a vote
of 26 to 24 the Senate to-day con
firmed the nomination of L. E. Pink
ham, of Massachusetts, to be Govern
or of Hawaii. A determined fight
against his confirmation was waged
by Senator John Sharp Williams.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Indica
tions in State Department circles to
day pointed to the release shortly of
former President Zelaya of Nicara
gua, held by the immigration author
ities on a charge of gurder. Knowl
edge that Zelaya’s death is desired by
the Nicaraguan Government because
the former President has a $750,000
lien on the financial reserves of that
country has come to Solicitor Folk,
of the State Department. Solicitor
Folk believes Zelaya would be unsafe
in Nicaragua on thia account, and will
release him.
Smashes Window
In Wife's Home; Is
Cited for Contempt
On a charge of throwing two bricks
through a window at the home of hia
wife while under a court order re
straining him from molesting her
pending divorce proceedings, William
L. Klker, a well-known architect, will
be haled into court to answer con
tempt proceedings.
An attachment against Mr. Kiker
was filed Saturday by counsel tor
Mrs. Bessie Wilson Kiker. The date
of the hearing has not been set.
It is charged that Kiker, on Thanks
giving Day, went to Mrs. Kiker’s
home in West End and demanded en
trance. When it was refused, it is
charged, he hurled the bricks through
a window. Mrs, Kiker called a po
liceman and had him removed, but
at her solicitation no arrest was made.
Kiker is with the firm of Morgan &
Dillon. Divorce proceedings were
brought by his wife after twenty
years of married life.
Bishop Criticises
Checker Playing
MACON, Nov. 29.—Checker play
ing and attendance on baseball
games and moving picture shows by
Methodist ministers were criticised
as worldly amusements by Bishop
Warren A. Candler, of Atlanta, In an
address before the South Georgia
Methodist Conference In session here.
He said he had never been inside a
moving picture show and intended
to die without seeing one.
The conference proceeded to-da,
with the election of delegates, lay
and clerical, to the General Confer
ence to be held in Oklahoma City tn
May, 1914.
He Fears Suicide on
321st Razor Stroke
MOUI.TRIE, Nov. 29.—Brewer H.
Edward, a well known mathemati
cian of this city, has confessed to his
friends that he fears he is going
crazy because he can't stop counting
the strokes of his razor when he
shavee. He has already consulted,
nerve specialists.
“I know that If the spell Isn't bro
ken In some way I shall end my life
by cutting my throat from ear to
ear with the three hundred and
twenty-first stroke," Edward de
clared to a friend.
COLUMBUS MAN A SUICIDE.
COLL’MBI'H. Nov. 39.- Samuel Mid-
Alston, a well-known Columbus man.
Committed suicide by taking laudanum.
He had been 111 for some time.
2 CENTS.
DAYTON, OHIO, Nov. 29.—An ap
peal was filed in United States Dis
trict Court of Appeals here to-day by
President John H. Patterson and 28
other officials of the National Cash
Register Company, of Dayton, Ohio,
who were convicted last year of vio
lations of the criminal sections of the
Sherman anti-trust law. The convict
ed men were some of them sentenced
to terms in the penitentiary, which
were suspended pending appeal. Pat
terson was given a year in prison and
$5,000 fine. Soon afterward the Day
ton flood occurred and he became a
national figure by the manner in
which he took charge of the rescue
and relief work. The appeal contains
over a million words, being the most
voluminous ever filed here. A total of
393 errors are alleged to have been
made in the trial of the case, and the
appeal is based upon every one of
them.
FORT WORTH, Nov. 29.—Snow fell
at Prosper and over North Texas and
Southern Oklahoma to-day. Live stock
in the Panhandle is suffering.
MOBILE, Nov. 29.—A report re
ceived from the river front says that
three men met death by drowning
when waves from a passing steamer
swamped their boat.
RECORD COTTON-SEED YIELD.
ELBERTON, Nov. 29.—D. J. Max
well, of Centerville District, by ac
tual weight, gathered 3,400 pounds of
seed cotton from one and one-quar
ter acres of land this year. He used
209 pounds of commercial fertilizer.
Copeland Resigns
As Deputy State
Insurance Chief
Deputy Ineurance Commissioner
John Copeland has tendered his resig
nation to Comptroller General Wright,
to take effect on January 1. He will
become a consulting actuary In At
lanta.
Mr. Copeland’s present position is
the highest in the State Insurance
Department, under the Comptroller
General, and through it Is adjusted
practically every question coming to
the department for settlement.
The position pays a salary of
$3,000 per annum, and Is one of far
reaching responsibility and trust.
Desertion Her Final
Cruelty,HeSays; Sues
Charging that his wife refused to
love and care for him, continued to
correspond with men aespite his pro
tests, treated him cruelly, beat him
with a poker and finally deserted
him with the declaration that she
“would get him yet." Ned H. Jones
filed suit for divorce Saturday.
Their 8-year-old child Is In the
possession of the defendant, where
the husband is willing for him to re
main. He offers to pay for his sup
port until the child is able to care
for himself.
Negro Convicted of
Killing H.F. Newsom
A verdict of guilty, with a recom
mendation for mercy, was returned in
the murder trial of Ed Fowler, negro,
charged with killing H. F. Newsom, a
young white man, last winter. A sealed
verdict was returned Friday afternoon
and by consent of counsel was opened
by Judge Hill Saturday morning The
jury took the case at 1 o’clock Friday
and remained out for six hours.
The killing took place at the corner
of Whitehall and Alabama streets,
about ten months ago. The defense en
deavored to prove an alibi. Judge Hill
will pronounce sentence —a life term—
Monday.
Municipal Court to
Temple Court Bldg.
Ths new Municipal Court will oc
cupy quarters on the first floor of the
Temple Court Building from January
until the regular quarters on the
seventh floor of the new courthouse
are ready May 1. This announcement
has been made by Judge E. D. Thom
as, the chief justice of the new court.
Five rooms will be used for the
hearing of cases, while the clerk’s of
fice will require an additional room
and the marshal another.
NIGHT
EDITION
W MEETS
UNEXPECTED
DRUBBING'
President Watches Cadets Sweep
Middies Off Their Feet—Sea
men Put Up Great Fight.
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By FRANK G. MENKE,
POLO GROUNDS, NEW YORK,
Nov. 29.—-The Army mule reared up
and with its hind legs to-day kicked
the Navv goal to smithereens. When
the smoke of battle cleared the final
score showed that the Army had de
feated the Navy by a score of 22 to 9.
The Army team swept the much
vaunted Navy eleven off its feet, out
playing it In every department of the
game. The Navy put up a game fight,
and fought ferociously in the last
quarter, but the cadets were not to
be denied.
It was the first time since 1908 that
the Army had triumphed over the
Navy.
The most spectacular play of the
game occurred In the third period
when Captain Hogue, of the Army
eleven, raced down the field 65 yards
and brought the ball to within 5
yardsyards of the Navy’s goal. Two
smashes through the center gave the
Army its second touchdown of the
game.
The middles tried line smashing and
made some gains, but at the crucial
moment the Army line held the mid
dies were forced to kick.
The star In the middle*’ line-up
was Brown and his toe. Three times
the right guard booted the ball and
three times he Bailed It over the ca
dets' goal.
Immediately after the game the 650
West Point cadets formed a circle
around the playing field, lifted their
caps, let loose a wild cheer and then
rushed to the center of the field yell
ing like Indians. There they hoisted
the Army colors and waved aloft the
figures showing the Army's score for
the game.
In that vast assemblage there was
only one non-partisan rooter. He was
President Wilson. As Commander-In-
Chief of the Army and Navy he
could root for neither side, no mat
ter what his personal feeling may
have been.
During the first half, the President
sat on the Army side and rooted for
the cadets. Then, to even up mat
ters. he went over to the sea dogs
during the last half of the game.
FIRST PERIOD.
The Navy won the toss and elected
to defend the west goal.
Hogue kicked off to Gilchrist, who
was downed on the Navy’s 35-yard
line.
Mcßeavy made 7 yards through
center. Harrison dropped back as
though for a punt, caught the Army
unawares and ran 80 yards before
being downed on the Army’s 20-yard
line. Mcßeavy made 5 yards through
center. Mcßeavy added 3 more
through left tackle. Harrison tailed
to gain through center. Mcßeavy took
the ball through center to the Army’s
6-yard line. Blodgett failed to gain
through center.
The Navy fumbled on the next play
and lost the ball on the Army’s 3-yard
line. Hogue punted to Nicholls, who
ran the ball back to the Army’s 14-
yard line.
Mcßeavy battered the Army line for
9 yards. Nicholls lost 3 yards on a
run following a take punt. The Navy
failed to gain on the next play at
right guard. The Navy’s booter
d opped back to the 20-yard line tor
a try at the goal from placement.
Nicholls holding the ball. Brown
placed the ball squarely over the bar.
SCORE-NAVI', 3; ARMY. 0.
Howe kicked off and Jouett took
the ball to the Army's 25-yard line
The Army was penalized 5 yards for
off-side play. The Army failed to
gain through center. The Army was
held without a gain on a try agilnst
right tackle.
The Army attempted a forward
pass from the 35-yard line, but it fail
ed. After a punt it was the Navy's
ball on her own 25-yard line. Blod-