The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-02
PURGE THE CITY
Of ONE ITS
WORST CRIMINALS
Demand Lawyer Bryant in
Lovenstein Case
WAS CAUGHT RED HANDED

After Argument That Was Sensational
and Without Mineing Words. the
Recorder Put Lovcnstcin Under a
Bond of S75o-Defense Claimed
CareIessncss in keeping Accounts.
Especial to News and Observer
Durham, July 30.-Attorney Benja-
min Lovenstein at 3:45 this afternoon
was placed under bond of $3.50 on a
charge OF embezzlement and immedi-
etely made defendant in another case
of giving worthless checks The sec
ond Of S1.26 went against him and he
was fined $50 and costs. He appeal
ed.
There Was not an element Of incom-
pleteness in the attack of Attorney
Victor S. Bryant in his passionate APP
pea to Judge Sykes to purge the COM
munIty Of one Of its worst criminals
and the bar of "a lawyer who has dis
graced you and me- as he pat it. Fine
sentences that burnt like Nitriol and
cut to the quick, flowed fast. The
lawyer had an unpleasant lob. He
didn't want to prosecute the brother
lawyer, but once in, he was merciless.
He declared that instead of using the
law license Of a great State for the
protection of society and defense Of
the humble, he had strangely per
verted it into an of abuse
for eXtorting from the helpless their
money.
What was his nefarious urpos in
taking that woman's money " the law
yer continued. 1T was enough 10
take it and apply it to the Proctor
check to save himself election from
his office for rental. 1t was enough TO
pay his drug bill and other bills of a
private nature. And isn't that an eIe-
ment OF intent Doesn't the fact that
he hadn't the money on demand. and
the further fact hat he had outstand-
ms checks tc show that he was mis-
applying the funds? OF course he
has agreed to make it right. Any
body will do that. It's the first thing
that a thief does. And Lovenstein
has been caught red-handed with the
goods. 1t shouldn't nave been neces-
Sary to make anything good.
The defense had argued that at the
bank, there was a balance of S46 in
Mr.. Lovenstein's favor, that he should
have been overdrawn but SIS if he had
had his check honored, and that hay
ing done his best to raise the money,
showed he had no purpose to defraud
the Bumpass girl. Against that Mr..
Bryant declared that it was useless
to argue hat the State could not pro-
duce q witness to snow had
declined the payment of the
debt or that he had said that he was
going to run away to avoid such
payment. Only a fool would have
done such a thing he said, and
here is no fool. but a shrewd, calcu-
lating, cunning fellow
Perhaps the worst phase of the case
was the attorneys development Of the
of+4-
drawing from the bank. 500 of the
$3.50 that the Bumpass girl had to her
credit, gave her book of deposit GER
tifcates to his brother-in-iaW, H.
Brady, the girls bondsman, as evil
dence of security When Mr.. Bryant
bonsdman, if his kinsman had told
him that there had been taken out
500, Brady replied negatively. When
the girl made demand for the money,
Mr.. L~ovenstein had told her hat
BRADY had the book and he could not
get it then.
The defense put on no testimony.
Appearing for the accused lawyer were
Senator II. a. Foushee, Attorneys J. F.
Cothran and r. p. Reade. The speech
of Mr.. Reade vas particularly good.
He contended that if all banks are TO
turn down checks that verdraw the
courthouses could not contain the men
who are thus embarrassed and that if
these be crimes, the jails cannot hold
the efendants He declared that the
tendency to cruelty the Jew Oughtnt
TO weigh heavily with the courts and
that the tremendous significance of
this matter ought TO address a power
full appeal to the court. Attorney
Cothran made q very short address in
which he hit the spot. He said that
at worst Lovenstein had been indis-
Greet and that he was guilty Of Just
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