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It Was ‘‘Like Sending Men's
Souls to Hell.”
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asleep before their bodies struck the
• ement.
“The ordinary man couldn’t ev. n
find the hole, unless- he knew where it
was It's away i ff In a corner of tho
■ basement of the isolation building,
where no visitors are allowed. When
you inspect the prison, you are shown
the clean dining- .noma, the t hup I
w here they pray for men's souls un
Sunday and then on Monday the
Mime men take th“ prisoners into the
hoie and Kuhject therft to the torture*
of the damned.
“When you start to the hole, you've
got to follow a winding passageway,
barred by Iron doors which huve to
he unlocked and locked again when
you go through Then you come to a
final door, solid iron anil more than a
foot thick. On the in Ide Is the h.de,
where silence and absolute darkness
reign. You could stand on the ou‘-
side of the door to the hole and shoot
a gan—and you couldn’t hear it l:i
the hole. Entering the door, you ire
in a narrow passageway, flanked on
either side by half a dozen narrow
t ells not more than five by seven feet,
and the ceilings are barely high
enough for a man to stand erect
Air Fearfully Foul.
There are no windows, no place
where a ray of sunlight t an ent« r
The sir in the hole Is the same that
has been there for years, and it is
unbelievably foul. A man can hardly
stay in the place live minutes without
getting a plittlng headache. The cell*
or stalls into which the prisoners are
thrown are built of brick, with a c—
ment floor, bare. All tho lights are In
the passageway and are controlled by
a switch outside of the ’hole’
“In each cell, a f v Inches higher
than a man's head, are stapled rus.v
•handcuff*
throw him into e cell, make him
stand facing the xvr clamp his legs
with Irons and then force him to
stretch his arms out while we locked
the handcuffs on his wrists. Then we
. turned out th« lights and left him —
alone in a solitude that was terrible,
in a darkness that can hardly be pic
tured. breathing air that sapped his
strength every second. He couldn’t
hear a sound, for the hole is sound
proof. I’ve known men to «tay in the
hole for eight and ten and fifteen
days at ft time. We’d shackle them
ut> in the morning at r* o’clock and
leave them alone until noon, wh a n
we’d go down and loosen one arm.
The poor devil would be given a glues
of water and a thin slice of bread, all
the food he had for 24 hours. lie w>*
allowed a few minutes *o eat—in the
dark—and then he’d be strung up
again. At 9 o'clock at night the irons
were unlocked and h was allowed to
rest. He rot Ms rest on a hard 'e-
ment floor—and some Idea of the se
verity of the punishment can oe
gained when I tell you that lots of
times I’ve released men from the Irons
and seen them fall asleep before their
bodies struck the concrete
Men Came Out Maniacs.
“I don’t think I’ll ever forget the
; hole, or the things I’ve seen out there.
I’ve seen strong men ro Into the
hole and come out maniacs, with
white faces, drawn and haggard. I’ve
seen good-natured men prb ; <>n->ri
whose only offense had i *en trvmj
to get something to eat, thrust into
the hole and come out desperate ml
with no other thought than to kill.
- I've heard men curse the warden of
that penitentiary with the most ter
rible oaths that were ever conceived
1n the minds of men. and I’ve seen I
men attempt suicide after spending a
Tew hours shackled and chained 'n
the hole
“I took a short-term prisoner down
in the hole one day and strung him
up. He had always been a mild-man* I
* tiered man, pleasant and affable I
strung him up at 6 o'clock, and fif
teen hours later when I let him down
he wits a physical wreck and a gib
bering maniac. 1 left him lying on the
floor cursing ar.d frothing at Ur*
mouth. After 1 had gone he reached
through the bars of the door with his
shoe and knocked the electric light
globe down. Somewhere he had got
hold of a rusty nail and had smug
gled it Into tlie hole. He gathered up I
The fragments of the light globe an!
raked them Into his cell. Theft he,
Took the nail --?• great. rusty spike -
and t*«*e a Jugged hole in the muscles
of his side. Then he i rammed the
hole with particles of broken glass
I found him th^ next morning lying
In a pool of blood, screaming and i
tearing at the hole In his side with a I
piece of glass. We took him to the |
hospital and he recovered, but he was
crazy.
“There was another man who had
a trifling altercation with a fellow-
prisoner while they worked in the
tailor Shop. They rook him anti put
him In his cell, and kept him there
without a bite to eat for twenty days
Every day they shoved in t<> him a
slice of bread and a glass of water.
He refused to eat the stuff, and they
told him to starve. When he was
taken out he had lost 75 pounds.
‘ 4, I stood it as long as I could. For
two years 1 hung men up In the hole
and **w them change from men Into
lunatics—and then 1 had to quit.
“It was too much like sending men’s
souls to hell!"
in Violation of the Sherman
Law, Says Suit.
HAI.TI.MORK, Nov. 20 Thr D«-
part ment of .Justice to-day, through
John I Hill, United States Attorney
for the District of Maryland, filed
ptilt against the American Fan Coni*
puny and the subsidiary concerns un
til r the Sherman anti-trust law. The
complaint alleges that the defendants
re lain interstate and foreign trade
in tin cans and ar*- attempting to
monopolize he same.
in the latter part of 1901, the peti
tion alleges, a conspiracy was formed
among ,1. Hobart Moore, William
Henry Moore, Daniel G. Held, Fred
S. Wheeler. Henry W. Phelps, Wil
liam T Graham, George G. MoMur-
try and I* Wiley McCaughey for the
purpose of restraining trade in the
I'nited States by creating a single
corporation witli large capitalization
and buying or leasing the greater
portion of the can-making machinery
In the I'nited States. The American
Can Company was incorporated with
a capital stock of $88,000,000 to car
ry out this plan and shortly thereafter
the competing plants were acquired.
The control of these factories and
manufacturing plants was maintain
ed through contracts by which for
mer owners or venders were prevent
ed from engaging in business for the
next fifteen years. It is alleged that
the American Can Company obtained
possession of patents on machinery
for long term periods.
The brief asks for the dissolution
of the combine into separate and in
dependent units, its many as may be
found neensspry to establish competi
tive conditions, and that a receiver
be appointed to take possession of its
property and work out such a dis
solution.
Until such dissolution the court is
asked to enjoin the defendants from
voting or receiving dividends from
the stocks of any corporations ac
quired by the trust.
The following corporations and in
dividuals form the (’an Trust:
American Can Company. Sanitary
Gan Company, Missouri Can Com
pany, Martin Wagner Company, Bos-
ton Wharf Company. Max A ms Ma
chine Company, Freeman-Duncan
Transfer and Realty Company. Ha
waiian Pineapple Company. Limited;
American Shot and Tinplate Com
pany. Daniel O. Reid and 26 other in
dividuals.
THE .T. M. HI Oil CO.
BOBBERY.
There exists no little concern
among the business men of the Sm*
owing to the activities among yegg-
men and their brethren.
Many inquiries have been made
h» to the m»kr of Messrs High
Company’s safe which so successfully
withstood the professionals recent
attempt to burglarize It
Upon Investigation at the Gookin
Bank and Office equipment Compa
ny's headquarters 113-11 " North
Pryor street, we ti id that the safe
was a fireproof H*»r!ng-Hall-Marvin
containing one of their celebrated
burglar-proof chests which has al
ways stood the test.-— 1 Advt )
Ask your neighbor about
Daisy Gem Block. Then call
us. Carroll & Hunter.
High Court Advances
Beer Sale Test Case
MACON. Nov. 29.—Notice has be--n
given local attorneys lhat the Su
preme Court has advanced the El
l.oh case for argument on December
J!i, the same day se* fer the hearing
of (lie appeal In the Prank ease.
The decision In the Loh case will
determine whether It !h a violation of
the prohibition 'aw to sell beer con
taining more than 3 per cent of alco
hol. Holding that the sale of beer
constituted a violation, und thereby
made every saloon a blind tiger. Judge
Mathews granted an Injunction
against I.oh's place.
Macon Burglar Robs
Preacher and Child
MACON, Nov. 29.—Macon Is under
going a burglary epidemic, 40 resi
dent and stores having been robbed
in three week*. Although special de-
ti dives and policemen have been Io
ta lied *»n the cases, not un arrest ha*
resulted. ,
Due burglar took $30 in a wallet
belonging to the Rev. W. A. Brooks,
of Rlackshear. a delegate to the South
Georgia Methodist Conference, who
is staying at the home of C. I). M
Cowen. on Mulberry street. The same
burg,.ir also looted a child's savings
bank, taking 76 pennies.
Unable to Agree on
Macon Police Chief
MACON. Nov. 29.—Although City
Council will me. t Tuesday night to
elect a Chief of Police, ms yet the
Aldermen have not agreed on a man.
It is declared that of the ten appli
cants none can secure more than four
votes, and seven ire necessary to
elect. L. a. Mitchell and E. A. Wlm-
bish are the latest considered for ap
pointment.
Chief Chapman, the incumbent, vrhj
has been in office four years, will re
tire on December 17.
Trinity Park Boy Wins
Declamation Contest
DURHAM. N. C Nov. 29.—Allen
H. Gwynn, representing Trinity Park
School, won the gold medal In the
declamation contest at Trinity Col
lege In which every high school in
the State participated. An oyster
supper followed the i mtts More
than 30 young men took parr.
The winner's subject was Chris
tian Young Men of America
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WASHINGTON. Nov. 29.—Dis
patches from Mexico City saying that
President Huerta h:.s cabled to Por-
flrio Diaz in Paris to return and re
sume hi old military command were
interpreted in Administration circles
here to-day as convincing evidence
that the power of Huerta is crum
bling, and lie has recalled the former
dictator in a last desperate effort to
retain tin• Presidency.
The reports, it was pointed out,
merely show the logical development
of conditions in Mexico City, of which
the administration had private infor
mation. It was this information which
caused President Wilson to announce
recently that Huerta's strength was
“crumbling and that the United
States merely would have to main
tain its "hands off" policy for a brief
period.
Tlie War Department, will not al
low' Red Cross doctors and nurses to
cross the Rio Grande to treat the
Mexican wounded in Juarez because
this might be accepted as tacit rec
ognition of the Constitutionalists.
However, Red Cross workers are
going to Juarez as individuals, per-
misison having been given by General
Tasker Bliss.
Considerable money from the
American Re-1 '’rose fund has been
gent to Juarez, for relief measures
Debris Fills Dublin
Streets After Riots
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Special Cable to The Atlanta Georptan.
DUBLIN. Nov, 29.—Pour hundred
policemen wer* added to the regular
force to-day to prevent a renewal of
the home rule riots, which broke out
last night while Sir Edward Carson
and A. Bonar Law were making
speeches.
The damage done In the rioting,
which was led by students, was esti
mated to-day at $60,000. The streets
were littered with debris as windows
In buildings and street cars were
smashed, arc lights wore pulled down,
doors torn off and other property
destroyed.
One woman, believed to be a suffra
gette, was shot.
W. H. Tumlin, Aged
Mason, Dies Here
W. H. 'f'umlln. a well-known Mason,
aged 73 yeurs. died flaturday at the fam
ily residence. No. 270 Houston street.
He had been In failing health several
months. He removed to Atlanta a year
ago to live with his children He is
survived by his wlf". Mrs Elizabeth
Tumlin. und nine children. J. \V\. J. C.,
A B., G. W. and J. M. Tum'in, of At
lanta; W. N. Tumlin. of Boaz. Ala.;
Mrs K. (J Barker, of Heflin, Ala.; Mrs.
\V K. Garner, of Kd wardsville, Ala.,
and Mrs. S. J. Vaughan, of Hopewell,
Ala.
Funeral services will be held at St.
Paul’s Methodist Church Sunday after
noon at 2.30 o’clock There whl also
he Masonic services The Rev. Mr.
Frasier, pastor of St Paul's, will offi
ciate. Interment will he in Westview
Cemetery.
Mooney Boy Denies
Any Part in Shooting
Walter Mooney, aged 17 of 700 Gordon |
street, whose name figured in the shoot
ing a few days ago ofv 10-year-old Har
old Th unason, of No, S7 North Lawn •
street by 14 year old Philip Foster, of I
Nn f>8f» Gordon street, has addressed a |
'communication to .The Georgian denying
that he had any part in the affair.
The Foster boy. following ids arrest,
admitted the shooting, but declared the
bullet was intended for Mooney. Moonex
d« - ies the shooting grew out of rivalry
be'ween he and Foster over a school
girl
The Foster box Is held in the juvenile
home and will be tried Tuesday.
Eggs Too Dear for
Weapons in Duel
CHAMPAIGN. IDT,.. Nov. 29 -Pol-
lowtnit a quarrel over the range in
the kiu-hen of the Plaza Hotel to
day, Medford Gowers tossed a few
eggs nt May MoWethv, who came
back with n volley of turnips.
Gowers was held by the polioe be-
cause he wasted egos whleh are 38
rents a dozen, while the girl was dis
missed.
J.E.T. Bowden Gets
Federal Land Office
WAYCRDSS, Nov. 29.—While in
Alabama to-day J. E. T Bowden, of
this city, was notified of hie appoint
ment ns Government land auctioneer,
effective immediately
Bowden has figured prominently in
Georgia politics, and is one of the
candidates in the Wa^vros* primary
to be settled December 6. #
NEW YORK, Nov. 29 -Joseph M.
Robin, the skyrocket financier, sen
tenced to serve one year on Black
wells Island, was to-day released from
the penltantiary with his sentence
satisfied without ever having served
a single day of actual prison life for
the larceny of $27,000 from the Wash
ington Havings Bank.
This remarkable procedure came to
light to-day when it developed that
during all of the five months that
Robin was supposed to have been a
prisoner on the island he had been
permitted to leave the prison every
morning in time to catch tlie 9 o’clock
boat, remain in the city transacting
business until the 4 o’clock boat and
then return to the penitentiary for
tho night.
While nominally a convict. Robin is
said to have made $1,000,000 during
his daily trips to New York in the
effort to recoup his fortune.
After landing in New York to-day
Robin declared that he intended to
devote the rest of his life to running
down the "real looters of the Wash
ington Havings Bank,” and that he
would not give the "men who looted
the bank’’ any peace of mind until
they were landed.
He Fears Suicide on
321st Razor Stroke
MOULTRIE, 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
shaves. He has alreadv consulted,
nervo 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.
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
moving picture show and intended
to die without seeing one.
The conference proceeded to-day
with the election of delegates, lay
and clerical, to the General Confer
ence to be held in Oklahoma City in
May, 1914.
500 BALES OF COTTON BURN.
LUMPKIN, Nov. 29.—Fire of un
known origin destroyed the Planters'
Warehouse and about 500 bales of
cotton. The loss is covered by insur
ance. The warehouse was operated, ■ »y
John T. Patterson. The tire d t-
ment saved udjoining building
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