The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-13
REDWINE GIVEN SIX YEARS.
CaDt. Jackson Makes Sensational
Charges in Closing.

oOO Of the Missing Money Has Not
Rsen Accounted For-"The Ruin of
That Bank Marked by Grave
stones"
Atlanta, Ca, Jan. 12.-Judge Pardee
this morning sentenced Louis Redwine,
the detailing cashier of the Gate City Ma
tional Bank, for a term of six years in
the Columbus (O.) penitentiary, he hav
inc pleaded guilty yesterday to embezzle-
ment as cashier for SlO3. 900.
Hon. n. j. Hammond, the leading at
tornev for the defense, presented . physi-
clans certificate concerning Redwine's
health, showing that he was not physically
IN strong condition, and begged the judge
that his sentence be such as to admit
some hope.
THE SENSATION OF THE DAY.
Capt. Jacksons arraignment of Red
wine. in which he charges that the con-
yicted cashier had accomplices, and that
there is somewhere unaccounted for S40-
0OO of the stolen bank money, has been
the sensation of the day. The incident
was full of the most dramatic interest,
the brilliant lawyer, in impassioned elo-
ouence defended the memory Of his son
while he demanded that full punishment
be meted out to the guilty In his short
speech Capt. jackson centered all the
interest of the noted case. He
said: "In 1892, and February, 1898,
there was a national bank in
the city of Atlanta known as the Gate
City National Bank. Its capital stock
was $3.50 900. 1t was the depository of
the national government. In that bank
was a trusted officer. promoted from
subordinate positions, sdccessively, on ac-
count Of supposed merit and the kind con-
sideration of friends, from the lowest po-
sition in the bank to next to the highest
in the conduct of its financial transac-
tions In February, 1898, he suddenly
leaves the bank under circumstances now
familiar with the court,
PREMEDITATED THEFT.
1.-THE evidence that has been introduced
upon this trial and has not been contro-
verted, showed premeditated and con-
certed abstraction and embezzle-
ment of the funds of the
bank, running through at least two,
and probably three years. 1t showed de-
eeption practiced upon the national bank
examiner sent by the government of the
United States for the purposes of investi-
eating the affairs of that institution. 1t
showed able and artful devices by which
the officers of the bank and by which gov
ernment was deceived by erroneous re-
ports made as to the condition of the
bank, and upon the report of those officers
1t is shown that there is shortage in the
cash entrusted to this defendant amount
ing to approximately half the capital
stock of the bank | hold in my hand
certain slips upon the deposit tickets of
the Gate City National Bank. Upon two
of them the item is entered, in the one
case Of $4,000 and in the other case of
$40, 200, commencing with the amount of
the shortage in the certificates of deposit
aggregating within few hundred dollars
OF the exact amount of the shortage.
Where is the $4,000 which was necessary
10 complete the grand total of $103,0O0
THE EXAMINERS SLIP UP.
"The bank examiner made the investi-
CATION of the affairs of this bank on Satur-
day, Feb 49, He found all the cash sub
stantlallY there. Sunday interviewed,
Monday intervened, and at the close of
the bank on Tuesday this defendant es-
capped. Only $40, 900 is shown to have
been borrowed from other banks, and
$4,000 in the deposit certificates held out.
Where is the remaining $40 00002 1t was
Shown by one bank officer put upon
the stand, that, in requesting moneys
sent him, he requested that it be
sent IN the shape of large bills.
Where are those large bills! That bank
is to-day destroyed. Fortunes have been
wrecked. Suffering and agony, extending
70 tneremoteSt corners of this community
mas been entailed. This defendant was in
nominal arrest on Thursday evening, Feb.
rs, on Thursday night of Feb % Tom
COBB jackson died. On Friday this de-
IendanJ was brought into actual arrest in
the custody of the law and his confession
tnen made to the officers of the bank was
tnaJ OF that large sum of money, all but
soOOO IN one instance. and $4,000 in the
9yIer instance, was given by him to Tom
Cobb Jackson.
THE PRISONERS FIRST PLEA.
May it please the court, was plea of
guilty filed when this case was called
1nere was motion for continuance
mace Was there plea of guilty when
InaV motion for continuance was over
luIed. Not at all. Every step of this
vase, from the arraignment to the con-
Xiuslon OF the testimony for the prosecu-
Non mad to be proven, and strictly proven.
men the long arm of the law surrounded
sne defendant, when guilt and conviction
vas Vas inevitable, and every defense made
I onaI the law permits him to make, then
zones the plea of guilty. He never surren-
% oetS one dollar of money of this bank, nor
p!IIs TO single accomplice. He stands
,Sh T.h This evidence before this court, and
A.4oSAL d1 gllo bAl4O upOh VuO
mercy OF the court.
REDwINE oNEoF HIS FRIENDS.
q. In the course of my life, may it please
S ne court, | have no: been blessed with
sIa1y friends. That man (pointing to the de-
-v1uanJl, was one of them, and none more
";HHeu than he. In the prosecution of the
esS.nvy' sometimes the innocent are vindi-
,otGu' and II in the discharge of my duty
sone ~ Sne government, it has been my part in
sue Soule way to protect the innocent, it is
ooue consolation in the melancholy
soeiuvs connected with this simple trans
rS,oh' rnjoh' My duty has been discharged
suugt circumstances the most har-
4 wing as the court can well
ra1iG;cIstand. The responsibility is now
~ ff.tey eu from the prosecuting attorneys
n Vne government. The case so far as
0N. 0v prosecution is concerned. is closed.
orn Tur work has been done to the best Of
Wiz dooiillty. The responsibility now rests
rna, ..n Ihe court, and now in conclusion,
sa-.S. say ~ please the court, l have only to
he tlaI' may the strong arm of the law
re,oS SSCrong enough and long enough to
neotu5 tu OUT and grasp every person con-
nros9u with the abstraction of this
ms,pyergy The ruin of that bank Is
'Aed by gravestones."
JUDGE PARDER's REMARKS.
RSoSG0uge Pardee in passing sentence on
tbiswlne said: 81 have considered that
tbs4 Han Ian was very dangerous man, and
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