The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-01
HOT FIGHT WAGED
IN TRAUB HEARING
Chandler Appointed Trustee
After Stormy Session
HEARD BY REFEREE STEELE
Ballot Was Taken With Creditors Vot-
ing and Referee Declared Result
a Non-EIection-only $4,000
Involved.
HEARD BY REFEREE STEELE

q. G. Gambler was appointed trus-
tee in the Jacob Traub bankruptcy
case yesterday morning by Feferee
In Bankruptcy Nenian Lovable Steele
AFTER one of the most exciting hear
lhgs ever held in the local bankrupt
courts An election for trustee was
tlrst held, W. ID. Nevins and e. G.
Chandler being the candidates.
The race was close, the final bal
lot reading Chandler As creditors with
deots amounting to $11,600, and Nevins
with 43 creditors and debts AMOUNT
ing to $4,000. BY this. it is seen
than Chandler received the most votes
but the smallest amount of debts. The
'aw reads that fer a trustee to be
elected he must not only receive a ma
iority of the votes but majority
of the debts also.
The argument waxed hot, and Ref
cree Steele's patience was worn to a
frazzle In an effort to keep the wrang-
ling attorneys inside the bounds of
common law and parliamentary rule.
SO heated became the verbal contest
ants that at times 1t was feared they
IS
eligibility to cast a vote was contest
ed by some one of the numerous at
torneys on some legal technicaiity.
John W. TomIinson. Nassar I. Al
len, Lee J. Marx and w. X. Brown
were the attorneys lined up on tie
side fighting for Nevin's appointment.
and Thompson & Thompson M. NJ
Ullman and Powell & Blackburn were
for Chandler.
After the ballot had been taken with
the above result Referee Steele de-
alared 1t non-election and appointed
Chandler Chandler has been receiver
for the stock and Referee Steele de-
cided that fer this reason he was the
most competent man for the place. and
also that his appointment would elimi-
nate extra fees by the appointment of
another man as trustee. Some of the
creditors insisted that three trustees
be appointed. but 1t was overruled by
Referee Steele, who decided that the
amount of money derived from tie
sale of the stock was too small for
three trustees to handle. This \amount
is about $4,000.
Leroy c. Harding alias Ed. Biaze-,
erstwhile banker at Fort Payne, Ala,
who has been confined in the county
jail for several months, was released
Yesterday on a $500 bond. which was
allowed by United States Commissioners
r. b. Watts. John r. Copeland, J.
W. Fain and DIR. W. T. McAdory signed
the bond. "r,N
Harding will be remembered as the
man who created such sensation in
Fort Payne a few years ago by his
operations. 1t is charged that he
claimed to operate a bank and grain
mill there. when in reality he did not.
By representations which he made to
concerns in different parts of the coun-
try. it is claimed that he had large
quantities of grain shipped to him. re-
ferring his creditors to the bank he
operated as to his financial ability.
He was arrested and brought to Bir-
mingham several months ago just after
he had finished term in the federal
victed in Ohio under the name of Ed
Blazer. the charge being one of cheat
ing and swindling. Harding has been
very bitter against the Ohio officials.
claiming that his conviction there was
plainly a matter of persecution. He
his possession which declare that he
is not Blazer, one of them being signed
by Blazers mother.