The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-12
LOUD IN MORE TROUBLE.
EINsTEIN & SONS CHARGE HIM
WITH EMBEZZLING $1,000.


Tried-Has Been an Immigrnt ton
Agent since He Left Here Two
Years Ago.
Charles D. Loud, charged in police court
! yesterday with cheating and swindhng
/ Mr.. Charles F. Graham of $l76. was dis
| charged by Recorder Hartrdge, under the
statute of limitation.
! Olfcer Lilienthal at once rearrested
Loud on two warrants from Justice
| Naughtins court, one charging him with
embezz.ing $1,000 from a. Einstein K
/ Sons, and the other for cheating and
1 swindling Charles f. Graham of $176. The
/ latter warrant was sworn out by Mr..
/ Charles f. Catherine, and was predicated
! upon the same cause of action as that
! charged against Loud in police court. The
reason for this was the inability of the
prosecution to produce witnesses in police
court, and they desired to develop their
| proof.
The trouble in which Loud finds himself
dates back to 1895, when he was an at
| torney in Savannah At that time he
! stopped at the Pulaski House and for
board and borrowed money, got in debt
to Mr.. Graham to the extent of SIG. He
settled this Indebtedness by giving two
drafts, one of which was dated
Sept. %. 1895, signed C. D. Loud and drawn
on an Abbevile bank for $76, and the other
dated Aug. %, 1895. signed Loud & Clarke,
and drawn on the German-American Bank
of 81 Paul, for 500. Both were protested
and returned unpaid
Loud appeared in Savannah Saturday
! from Cordele and registered at the Pulas-
| XII He claimed to be interested in estab-
lishing a Catholic colony at Winona, and
said he only came to Savannah after ac-
company in party from st. Paul, where
ne claims the headquarters of the colo
nizing concern are located. His agent
there, he said, is Ed Tietz, whom he
/ also says is an immigration agent OF the
/ Georgia and Alabama Railroad. Upwards
| of 81 900 was in the rmdn-Amerlcan
| Bank there from collections for lands
sold immigrants and this amount was
subject TO his draft, he said, when drawn
| on his agent, TietZ, in whose name the
! account with the bank was opened. From
| his representations it was apparent the
! Colonel was well fixed and had dollars
to straighten up all rugged places in
his path.
Mr.. Graham wanted something better
| than the protested drafts he held and he
| got Loud in a room with his attorney
! and demanded a settlement. The repre-
! sensations made by Loud were gone over
and it was agreed by Mr.. Graham and his
! counsel that a draft on Tietz and the
! $1,000 in the St Paul bank would be ac-
| ceptable. This was given and the mat
! ter was considered settled until it was
! learned from Vice President Cecil Cab
| bett that TietZ had steered some travel
/ this W9V for the Georgia and Alabama
| but that he was not an authorized agent
| of the company. This fact, together with
! other information Mr.. Graham's attorneys
/ got, threw a shady aspect also on this
transaction and it was determined to ar
! rest Loud for cheating and sWindling.
Complaint was made at the police bar
racks by Mr.. Graham Monday night and
! as stated in Yesterdays Morning News,
! Loud was arrested by City Detective
ScuIly at the Central Railroad depot.
He was enjoying a cup of coffee
/ and said he intended leaving on the night
train for Cordele, where he was to meet
| a party of immigrants from the North
! west and steer them down to the Catholic
! colony at Winona. He expressed sur
prise at being arrested and said he
! thought the matter with Mr.. Graham was
! settled.
After spending the night in the station
| house, Loud was arraigned in police court
| He was represented by Attorney T. L.
Hill and counsel was also present for the
| prosecution. 1t seemed that Mr.. Graham
and Mr.. Cecil Gabbett and Mr.. A Pope
! of the Georgia and Alabama Railroad had
misunderstood each other in some way,
and neither was present. The prosecution
asked for continuance, and Recorder
Hartridge allowed the case to go over I'M
Ill o'clock. At that hour it was called
in Assistant Chief Reilly's office, but the
/ prosecutions witnesses were absent as
in the forenoon. The prosecution said
1t was not ready for trial, but agreed TO
submit the case on certain facts and the
| drafts in evidence. Recorder Hartridge
said he could fix no bond unless he knew
something of the offense charged
It was the opinion of the court that
the action should be based on the worth
less drafts given Mr. Graham in 1885 ana
not the one given Monday in lieu of them
/ Taking this view of the case, the statute
of limitations of two years, the time
within which such ofenses must be pros
! ecuted, was decided applicable and on
this ground alone Loud was dismissed.
This was pleasing and relieved him from
the floor-walking ne had been doing all
the while to pacify himself.
The season of bliss was brief however.
and when officer Lilienthal stepped TO the
! front with two warrants and confronted
Loud, it looked like case Of jumping
/ from the frying pan into the fire. Loud APP
! peared to be greatly surprised at this turn
in the case though the officer was eyed
rather suspiciously when he first entered,
and Loud gave occasional glanees in that
direction as If experimenting another scene.
He thoroughly understood the situation,
however, and taking up heavy fur coat
he carried, apparently adapted to the frig-
id climate Of Minnesota, he told the officer
he was ready to accompany him.
Officer Lilienthals intention was TO take
| Loud to the county jail to await further
action. This did not suit Loud, and he pro-
tested that he had a legal right 20 be TAX
| en- before magistrate and lawfully com
| mitted to jail or to give bond if he de-
| sirec. There was some Darleying at the
! barracks before it was determined what to
do, but the officer finally agreed to take
the accused before Justice Naughtin.
The warrants were here examined. and
! especially the one charging him with en-
! bezzling 5000 II had been sworn out bv
Mr.. L. Kayton, agent of Einstein & Sons
! which firm now carries on a large lin
! house in Brooklyn, but were formerly In
! the wholesale shoe business in Savannah
with their store on Bryan street. near
! Bull This was in 1895, and it seems tbo
firm had TO take in some farming lands