The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-14

The people of Montgomery were amazed when on the morning of we'd nesday, January 2S, 1927. The Advertiser published a story of the arrest or owen worthington, q popular young business mau and one of the confidential clerks or the big wholesaue house, Hall & Gaines.
 worthinRton had been quietly taken into custody the previous afternoon ana his friends received the first intimaaeh of his trouble through the newspaper rshe warrant fer the arrest charged nim win having stolen q ,ls78 from the safe of hfs employers. on or about Monoay' January, &
 me theft and arrest was the exclusive eossap on street corners. Owen woftnine- ton. altheught but 9 years old, was gen Sralfy rsgarded as . most reliable and swsu1Uaary young man. He had been poanted to as one of the coming business nan of the cdtyl Hall & Gaines reposed 4hs utuest conAdsnes m him and for his ssRv1css paid handsome salary. To add lnkessse to ths ssnsAtSon the newspapers had oAiy . week before the arrest an- n6uneed tse marriage of Worthington to Anss Virginia 0ray. one sf the pretttest and most attractive belSss of Montgomery as1eA0era14o and wsa1kfy Col. Albert Gray.
 G~ssy sirvumssnncs pointed to the gsxik of Wovtnin0toa. Thsre was no sign q ths sses doov havlug been forced. No &oee, window or sAt other entrance to xhs sasap R c11es had 6s6n disturbed Ii va evSdenx ehak the thefe Insd beea oom- asi<AH hv soEns smploys of shs fisxr- Of 1ss 0esy men ane wUxnen eonnected with sMAe ascnbHskxnu& but cWo men, besides 4&p psupslsAoss. hngw chs ocmnAnation to &sSn Snafa One uk tisaeH was wort2ington. s1- s.s-~ WlnNAa~ ~uH444r@y ~3ud1sukiaa man and . warm fNenA Of Nks enaeeoAsd young n1au. nnnsrt& Row. : 4eM hAd ssA sssa ineveAx Shs store ae 1kss s6uuing bsaR weGs shs ysersanan Vp klD bsak hAA 9ea thsk wss wea b Stt@ Ed4nAsse sslsss wsrtfdastcn Jeff - knswn ip Mrptspusyy that wrs&h&n@ssn had .sspsn 'pzEyfnw AocsesT eEssmr fn tsn raek year Saan svsr Do. 9oss had been hia pnkcm, Aaa had spens snonsv freeay. 71s cieuzex wsw veached <sozAdAag, cashier of the Gteeh Mmtaoual Bauk, tnfcrmer Poaioe CApfazn HeqeanA. who wAs working an shs es9A s1k Toes. day rnasqsaax w0rtisnge0n NBN 6eDosfesd in the bank sl.1s72 dfe ekaee aznsussa stolen frozn Hsal q Gaines.
 While the newspaper secry pubaished bv The Advertiser casg4sd ali o9 these facts and was evidently hsamsd by master Of ths newspaper craft, sesween the lines. a close observer or trained newspapsr man saw that the wriear be- iieved in the innocence of W0rthinS Ston. No special stress was laid on any Of the circumstances and there were aliustone. almost editorial in their wording. wn4eh indieeAed to the reader, that circum- stances sometimes lie.
 The newspaper story was written by old Fred Mcqueen. a reporter gray in the service of the paper. The other report CTS called him Colonel" and they ev- CT yone loved and revsred the veteran. Ii had been told around the city rooms that 'the Colonel had in his younger days gone all the gaits known to the sportzvs fraternity It was known by some Of thu boys that he could tell a faro table Iron a roulette wheel and that somewhere 1T his life he had heard of baccarat anC German hazard. One or two of the re porters' personal experience kept then alive to the fact that ''the Colonel" wae aware that acres on kingy" didn't beat three deuces and even the typos knew that he could name thirty-nve brands of wniskey and describe the labels on each bottle. On this account, though an excellent journalist. ths old man had never risen high. His sole public honor was having been appointed notary pubic by Q Governor back In the early part of the century an h0uor which he stiu cherished to his bosom.
 At the staff meeting that Wednesday morning the "worthineton story" was the topic of much discussion and each report CT expressed the hope that the follow story would be assigned to him thereby giving him a chance to do some good work
 Old Mcouee2 had not repovtsd for duty when the City Editor oanne in bu@fly.
 sMcoueen hAAdlsd the Warrington a&