The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-06-08
Fighting .
For Lite
ARE THE TRUE REFORNIERS,
WHOSE LICENSE MAY BE
REVOKED AGAIN.
Leaders AT Odds
And Litigation Which May Drag
Through Years and Waste Assets
of the Organization is Threat
ened in Attempt to Hide Thefts.

ened in Attempt to Hide Thefts.
r Richmond, Na,,June 5--The- re-
port Of the receivers Of the Savings
Bank Of the Grand Fountain, United
Order Of True Reformers, has Gre
ated a profound sendatiOn,~ says the
Planet. 1t is now recognized as a
fact that if the facts set forth in this
report are correct, the end Of the
True Reformer. organization is at
hand. The Bureau Of Insurance
makes no secret of the fact that it's
approval by Judge Daniel Grinnan
will make it impossib pie for the Or
der to continue bus mess. To this
end a desperate effort is now being
made to prevent its approval and to
refute many of it's statements.
The receivers, wien questioned,
smile blandly and Intimate that the
worst has not as yet Seen told. Hon.
r. Evelyn Byrd and Ex-Governor A.
j. Montague, representing the Grand
Fountain in an associate capacity,
appeared before Judge John H. In
gram Of the Law and Equity Court,
and asked for an in junction to pre-
vent the receivers, Messrs. VIM. A.
Montague and Edwin NJ Pitcher,
from selling the True Reformer Hall
at Lynchburg, which property was
sold before, and was bought in by
the Order, but when was again to
be put up at auction at Lynchburg
Both of the receivers were in
court and arguments on the motion
were heard. At the conclusion,
Judge Ingram promptly refused to
grant the request, and the receivers
were given until II O'Clock to pre-
pare their answer, which papers were
duly attested and taken on an ap-
peal to the Supreme Court atWythe-
willie, Va. Judge Ingram declared
that he did not intehd to have the
True Reformer case brought in his
court. The proceedings are now in
the Chancery Court, which is a tri-
bunal of coordinate jurisdiction,
and he was of the opinion that Judge
Grinnan knew more about the case
than he did. Mr.. Moncure stated to
the court that when the facts were
known it would be found that the
Order Of True Reformers, known as
the Grand Fountain, was Just as
insolvent as the True Reformers'
Bank.
General Counsel, J. Thomas New
some, was at Newport News this
week preparing to sue out an in
junction at this point in order to
e
of the Grand Fountain. The admis-
sions Of the officers Of the Grand
Fountain seems to have recently ham
dicapped him in his efforts to save
the Order. At every point he is CON-
fronted with something which they
have said or done which bars him
from proceeding along a given line
OF argument. He asserts that If he
finds that the report Of the receivers
with reference to the officials Of the
Order and their responsibility for the
deplorable condition OF affairs Is cor
rect, he will sue every one Of them,
even If he has to relinquish his Of
flee to do it.
The connecting Of Lawyer Giles
b. jackson with the r. r. Hill de-
rafcattoH caused much comment and
necessitated a statement by that at
torney. 1t will be interesting to
note that the overdraft by the COL
ored State Fair was $3.50, and the
notes OF the Negro Development and
Exposition Company we're $3,3O6.53
In one instance and $3,306.53 in the
other, which together with the Sc
757.O2 including the attorneys fee,
makes the total amount gotten out
OF the True Reformers' Bank s13,-
I5l.O4. q sSt
An interesting phase of this True
Reformer Savings Bank case is the
| amount Of over-draft by the First
Baptist Church, r. r. Hill Treasurer.
He left an Indebtedness against the
First Baptist Church Of $2,557.O9.
AS matter Of fact, the First Bap-
| tist Church did not owe the True
Reformers' Bank any money what
ever.
The present aspect Of the case
makes 1t all q very embarrassing
proposition, especially in view Of the
receivers:
I'm connection with the real es-
tate inventory returned with this re-
port, it Is proper here to say that
the officers Of the Grand Fountain
OF the United Order Of True Reform
ers (who as heretofore shown were
officers of tn bank) voluntarily
told the receivers that all Of the real
estate shown in the above inventory
was the property Of the bank
whether the legal title thereof show
ed on the court records to be in the
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