The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-09-04

10Th, 1901, showed that he. only had
$59, 1912 Of individual deposits, and
SOL, 900 of this was the money Of the
Mississippi Fire Association. The
board thought that the funds of tile
Association were in banks scattered
around over the State in which our
stockholders and policy holders had
made deposits, and sent the company
certificates OK deposits instead Of
checks, and it was the policy Of the
company to let these funds remain
Where deposited as it would have a
tendency to make MS friends and get
business from the banks where we de-
posted. But Mr.. Rush without the
knowledge of the board had called in
about S5l, 900 OF this money and had
it In his own bank.
WHY RUSH RESIGNED.
The beard Of directors then told
Mr. Rush that he must resign the
Office OF treasurer; that his conduct
was such as required that the Offices
or treasurer and president be severed
lie saw that the board intended to
force him to give up the treasurer.
ship, so he resigned.
This meeting was on the 9th and
18th CT June 1901 know that Mr..
Rush could have been fired as Presi-
dent as well as Treasurer if for no
other reason than the one that he had
not paid for his stock at the time he
was indicted into office, but we had
no one in view for president, and
thought best to let him remain in
office for the present. l did not in
form the board Of directors of the
treasury steal because I was under
promise to Mrs Orr not to disclose it.
| thought of the Treasury matter a
great deal and finally I wrote Mrs.
Orr urging her to absolve me from
my promise and to let me inform the
Governor. / wrote her that it was q
patriotic duty she owed the State to
give informtion TO the Governor of
what had come to her KNOWLEDGE !:
that this band of villains had abso-
lutely control Of nearly a million
dollars Of the peoples money and if
they would abstract 500, 600 they
could take it all; that high crime
had been committed and knowledge
of the affair had come to her with
out her seeking and it was her duty
to tell the Governor; that she was
employed to do honest work and if
one Of the band had been big enough
fool to tell her Of it, that in no. way
put her under a moral obligation to
keep the crime q secret for them, ETC.
etc.
ABSOLVED FROM SECRECY.
Not long after that received a
telegram from Mrs. Orr asking me to
meet her at the Y. g. M. V. Railroad
depot on arrival of train from Gre
NADIA. [ went to the train and she and
her daughter got off the train, and
Mrs. Orr said she wanted to go to
the depot Of the Southern Railroad
and go up OH the branch train that
would leave in about an hour. l went
with Mrs. Orr and her daughter to
the Southern depot and she talked to
me until the train pulled out. She
foI IN hSf
had treated her very badly and that's
she had given up her job and Was on
her way to the home of her brother
that she absolved me from my promise
of secrecy in regard to the treasury
matter, and that I was at liberty to
tell the Governor.
TOLD THE GOVERNOR.
II got on the next train and came
TO jackson and told the Governor.
"The Governor was greatly dis
turbed ana surprised. My God!' he
said, Can this be true? / have hard
~ got warmed in my se,.t before lot
of villains have robbed the Treasury
right under my nose.'
"His first impulse was to go right
then and count the money in the Treas
ury, and if the funds should be gone
to have arrests made. advised him
to be calm ard not act hastily. He
ask ed me if I believed what Mrs. Orr
had said / told him that it might
be sensational tale with no founda-
ton; that I did not know Mrs. Orr
very we'll, but in view of the fact
that she had the reputation of being a
very fine woman, ana the further fact
that she had given so much detail,
felt pretty sure it was just as she had
stated. then told the Governor that
Mrs. Orr said at one time Mr.. Rush
wrote Armisteau that the Governor
was going to count the money in the
treasury, and for him (Armistead) to
carry the money to jackson; that
Armistead wrote or wired Rush he
would be on the train going South,
and to join him; that Rush did so,