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VI1CITYe Asks JiateFILTHruelty,isan-m-of hor-tockade ,nd Jury will bospecialnd Jury! prisonagreed ie facto r after* .100 for ary round to uncll of appro-he now ; which publiccommission of October 16,1906:M. P. Cornett tendered his resignation. While detailed on special duty and in full uniform he had been found under the influence of intoxicating drink and brought in to the barracks and relieved of his equipment. Motion was made and carried that his resignation under the pending charges be accepted.This is the man who was employed as a guard at the city stockade and who is charged with brutally beating prisoners.By PAUL E. WILKEB.Six busy Atlanta business men went out to the stockade Thursday afternoon. These men composed a committee from the grand Jury and 'hey wanted to see If testimony given before tho grand Jury concerning filthy and barbarous conditions existing In tho city hostile was true.They remained a few hours, and, If remarks overheard express their opinions, they found oven more than they looked for.This committee was headed hy Louis H. Beck, foreman of the grand Jury, and was composed of F. L. Seely, W. 8. Byck, Joseph’T. Orme, W. B. Dlsbro and Darwin G. Jones, In addition to Mr. Beck.For years these men have known of the stockade. But they are busy business men. They probably never thought about the stockade seriously. But when they became members of a grand Jury and testimony was given before them of conditions existing which seemed impossible, when they saw a beaten man strip before their eyes and show them ghastly scars—then they decided to see for themselves.The visit was made after D. M. Vinlng, superintendent of the stockade, and Peto Cornett, a guard, had been indicted In connection with a beating given a prisoner.About 1 o'clock an automobile drove up to the entrance and without ceremony tho committee entered the Institution. Superintendent Vinlng bad left Just previous to the visit, but he saw the visitors drive up and he returned.Some Inspections of penal Institutions have been perfunctory. As a rule busy business men take what officials give them In the way of Information.tn ft ft aft ft A at ft ia a • « . • Aft • • a • a •L.UUU Ul IIIU LLU1Negro Charges That Gangrene Poisoning Followed Sentence at Stockade.PRISON IS BREEDEROF FATAL DISEASESDoctors Say High Percentage of Pneumonia and Rheumatism Patients Come From Stockade.In addition to Its other accomplishments, the Atlanta stockade Is one of the chief feeders of the pneumonia and rheumatism wards of the Grady hospital, and, as It Is charged by the patient. has recently furnished a case of gangrene poisoning, necessitating the amputation of a leg.Tho hospital records show that recently and for aome'tlme past an unusually ..high perqentoge of pneumonia and rheumatism . patients have,been coming from the stockade—unusually high for one source.Suld a prominent visiting physician of the hospital to a Georgian representative Monday:,During my last service In thein Eight Month ing into PrisTO BE REVELA7 DECLAREGeorgia Is Mai* Under New S; cording to ReceivI believe such a made on road bulldlniGeorgia when we hav from each county as i latlon to the people of R. Hutchens, chalrmi commission.Chairman Hutcher brought forth by the county reports from 1 the field and actlvel) curing valuable data tlon will cover a perlo* from April 1 to Dec* this- period the new t Ing the convicts, both felony, on the roads b tlon, os the result ni fight for the abolltlolease system.When the corps of r creased to eight, with the commission decldbe tC fine thing to snaccurate -Information progress of road bulldl erml data on the suhj questions were prepur the hands of the Ina
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Atlanta Georgian and News
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Sat, Dec 18, 1909
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