The Pensacola journal., July 06, 1919, Page 5, Image 5

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THE PENSACOLA JOURNAL. SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1919. 5
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Mexico's Death Court Described
By JACK NEVILLE.
Mexico City, July 5. Children were
pyylng rlng-around-the-rosey . In the
dtth court as I entered what was until
a few yeeterdays rgo the moat hellish
spot In Mexico.
Song and laughter rose from the en
closure where innumerable men have
cursed and died.
The sun poured Into atony sockets
whose festering horror hadn't seen the
liRht f day for a century.
Such was my introduction to Belem,
long the home of Mexican Inquisition and
for decades the human slaughterhouse of
you've heard a recital of Its ghastly yes
terdays! "A home for happiness," said General
MacKinney, with a wide sweep of his
hand. "Here we are reclaiming mendi
cant Mexico . Not a human being brought
in has known anything but want for
years. Many have never slept In a bed.
never eaten except from a garbage can.
never known other clothes than rags
never smiled.
"Mexico has been their curse and they
a curse to Mexico.
"When Cortex came to the city four
It didn't strike for me, though I was
condemned to die, because a 930,000 bribe
bought freedom.
'I vowed if I ever got out I'd come
back here and clean up this hole. I'm
doing it. Not an Iron bar will remain in
Belem. Not a bloodstained stone here
shall offend one of these abject creatures
we're making over into happy ami self-
respecting humans.'
I think the very ghosts of Belem's vie
tims must be dancing rine-around-the-
rosy with the children who laugh where
tbey died.
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Uiaz and Huerta.
Its transformation into an asylum for
the mendicant, the orphaned and the mis
erable indicates Mexico's Internal regen
eration and her right to bid for higher
wcrld respect.
An old man led me In.
At the far end of the court towers a
wall, rusted with the blood of many ex
eiutlons, scarred with bullets, and at one
point almost shot away.
"Here," said the old man, removing his
i.at. "died the bravest of them all Ga
bnel Hernandea, a Madero general, al
though only a boy. captured by lluerta.
the usurper, shot and burned while stl;i
alive."
He told me of Senator Bellsalro Domln
guez mysterious death; of kidnappings.
arrests and fiendish things, all ending
here In this labyrinth of terror that held
a peculiar mockery because Belem had
for 300 years before been a convent, con
secrated to peace and rrayer.
And then the old guide pointed to a
man standing on top of the wall, lean,
tall, with features fiercely calm.
"Come up, said General Alejandro
MacKenney, half Scotch, half Mexican,
and wholly human once condemned pris
oner In this hell hole he has converted
into a Joy factory.
"Newspaperman. ehT he said amiably.
"Used to be one myself."
He led me to a point on the crumbling
abutment where we could look down into
four courts.
The old execution yard swarmed with
romping youngsters. In another area
stood hundreds of men. women and chil
dren. In rags, being attended by white
robed doctor and nurses. From the
workshops in a third emerged lines of
omen and girls, clean, neatly uniform
ed, chatting and smiling.
Those of you who don't believe in mir
acle ought to see Belem today after
centuries ago he found 40,000 professional
beggars on the streets.. Their descend
ants have clung to us through succeed
Inf,' generations.
"Today we are gathering them In here,
cleaning, feeding, clothing them and
teaching them to earn an honest living.
In that building the women learn to sew
and weave. In this one the men are train
ed to skilled work. When they become
eif-supportlng they may leave."
We descended into the main court and
were caught in a swirl of ragged out
casts begging to be released.
"These," said General MacKinney,
"have Just been brought In. Aa soon as
v are fed and clothed, you couldn't
drlre them away."
The gates opened, letting In white clad
attendants bringing milk, fresh beef, rice,
-lugar coffee, macaroni. What a scram-
A FOOL AT 40
It Is an old proverb that every man
is either a fool or a physician at 40.
Well I fooled along for -40 years in
the drug business and practice of
medicine before I perfected a blood
medicine that I thought and knew I
could offer the public with Impunity.
I have perfected "Number 40 For
rne iiioou. ana io snow you tnr.i i
do not wish to fool you I will send
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the front of the carton with the state
ment that ou have tried one bottle of
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Ind.
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Men's and Doy's Clothing
ble for the first square meal most of
tacse wrecks had ever eaten!
"And now," said the general, leading
me to the top of the wall again, "let me
shew you why I'm here. Look down
there."
rep between two walls I saw small
Iron gratings air holes to dungeons. At
one end workmen were tearing down the
masonry, ripping out the bars.
'When Dlax was president." said Mac
Kinney. "I spent three months down
there in the blacket, dampest celL
"The firing squad In the court above
was my time-piece. Every' night at one
o'clock came that regular death-knell.
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I AMERICAN LEGION.
Spanish War Veterans of Florida
unanimously voted to support the
American Region in their reconstruc
tion work and to send delegates to
the convention in Minneapolis when
vov mt vsterd:iy for their ninth
annual session, at the San Carlos
.j t .. 'lui.s toilowed a resolution in
troduced by Pat Murphy, of Jackson
ville. R. M. Carv was elected department
al commander shortly after the 25
veterans gathered for their meeting:.
Samuel M. Douglas, of W. M. Wood
ruff Camp, No. 4, Jacksonville, was
chosen senior vice commander; Frank'
Sellars, of St. Petersburg, junior vice
commander; G. C. Kelly, department
marshall; J. S. Orads, of Jackson
ville, chaplain. Appointments of
John Massey as department adjutant,
Gus lingerer, department quarter
master; John G. Epples, Inspector,
and W. L. Zachary, Judge advocate,
were also made.
A welcome to the out-of-town dele
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with a response given by John Clay
Smith. E. W. Thomas. Jr., of CoL
W. F. Williams Camp, No. 9, formally
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Hansen. W. L Zachary and John Clay
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