The age-herald., 1897-09-14
LA MAY WEPT AND MOANEO
Declared He Had Been Robbed
 of S6,000.
WAS JUST A LITTLE TlPSY
Claims to Have Left Tuscumba With Collat- eral Belonging to Colbert County
 Bank-Casher Bennis' Story.

J. A. May, son of Marion May, who resides on Twenty-first avenue, North Birmingham, and erstwhile president of the Colbert County bank, Tuscumbia, Ala, is in the city and says that he has lost or has been robbed of securities of the face value of $6000
 J. A. May came to this city yester- day morning on the Louisville and Nash vile southbound train at 4:55. He YVES rather intoxicated and headed for Rich arfson's saloon in Twentieth street,
 wfrsre he announced that a1e had come
 to Birmingham to raise the sum of 5000 on certain collateral which, according to
 MT May, consisted of twp stock certfff-
 cates, one of the par value of $1,OOO, for
 ten $1O0 shares of the Colbert County
 bank, and the other valued at $50Oo rep
 resenting fifty s100 shares of the Spath-
 ite Iron company of Sheffield.
 He said that he had imbibsd freely
 at Decatur at which point he stayed for
 over five hours, but he emphatically de-
 dared that he had reassured himssaf as
 to the possession of his valuables after leaving Decatur. However, at 7:30 a. m.
 yesterday he was a picture of grief in
 front of Richardson's saloon, where he
 bewailed alis fate and incidentally ac-
 cused every passerby of robbery.
 Then he knew nothing but that he
 left Tuscumbia with $6,O00 worth of se-
 curities He wept and prayed for the
 recovery of the securities. By turns he
 accused the bartender and every one In
 the establishment of robbery. It took
 an Age-Herald reporter to convince him
 that his proper course was to have the
 Louisville and Nashville railroad wire
 down its line for news of his missing
 documents. He had this done, but if
 his securities had been lost on the train they failed to materalize.
 Mr. May may or may not have lost that which he claims he has lost. D. F. Enslen, cashier of the Jefferson County Savings bank, said yesterday when seen by an ge-Herald reporter, that MT. May was a hard drinker, and could not have lost anything.
 So great and poignant was his griaf yesterday that he. time and again, de- clared that he would commit suicide by drinking laudanum.
 Late in the day his father appeared on the scene, and escorted his wayward son home. "If my son had the securi- ties.p said he, "they belonged to him. and it is nobody's business but his whether they were lost or not" J. A. May iJ atort 30 years of age and is a member of a prominent fam ly llere. He is the son of C5pt. Ma.L,n May, who has retired from business cir cies L. A. May, who was president of
 lha defumdt South Sides Saving bank, Is his bIiclther. Several weeks ago the New York World corta.nsd an account of the organization elf company, of which L. A. May was treasurer, for ihe purpose of operating tn the Krondyke regions. It was then intimated that something crooked was connected with the com pany. The next day the World publish ed a satemeclo thi,t May had withdrawn from the organization.
 He also has a brother who Is m'n- ister Another brother is the proprietor of grocery store tr this city. Unta Aug. 23, J. A. May was presi- denit of the Colbert County bank, at Tusoumbia. According 10 his friends, ha | has gone frc,n bad to worse, having bsen arrested and jailed in this city not long since. Various unpaid biTs are charged | against him, amcrg thsm being cne for | drinks, hsld by J. s. Ferguson, 2191 F-1gt | avenue.