Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-17

NO LOT Canal street
AT that time he appointed me- his
rent collector for the tenement house at
NO 433 East Eighty-frst street. which
ne SAID his uncle had left him. The
rents from that house amount to sf4S a
month
Not Known is Voter
"Schrank never seemed to me 70 he
man who would harm anybody All
OF his friends here were very much
startled to think that he had shot Colo
mel Roosevelt Why, it was utterly un-
like anything we had ever dreamed of
him. He was never an ardent admirer
of any particular candidate. and. so
far as l know. he never registered or
voted. He did not talk Socialism over
here at ALI
visit TO the Flushing avenue saloon
Of Havestroh & Thurman brought out
a number of the peculiarities of
Schrank and his inability to stand
any kind OF discipline. Thurman told
reporter his personal experiences
with Schrank
I'VE got this man Schrank through
an advertisement. He started as lunch
man at 50 a week, worked a week at
that, then We made him a waiter, and
then, because be was too stupid or
clumsy TO be waiter. we made him
lunchman again. He worked for us I'M
I'll about March |.
"On March ] he came TO me and said
he wanted his money and would quit
the job, az he was disguised with it.
He said we were Knocking him down,
and a poor man did not have even
fair chance to earn a living.
When he came to our place he was
apparently down and out. In fact, he
said he was all in, that he didn't have
a penny, and simply had TO so to work
at anything he could get, although he
was used to mental effort rather than
physical He tried to make us under
stand that he was person in re-
duced circumstances VINO deserved a
great deal more from. this world than
he had got.
Thought Him a Weakling.
Il always thought Schrank was
weakling. OF course, | did not look
into his antecedents. You don't have
to do that for a lunchman or waiter.
But | figured it out that there must be
q crazy streak in his family some
where. We took pity on him when he
fell down on his job here and let him
stay and fed him for couple of days
beyond his time to quit.
But it got so that We just had to
turn him out. He was very abusive
finally: he said we were grinding the
lives out of our employees, and that
kind of stuff. ! wanted to hit him, but
he was such weakling / did not have
the heart to DO it.
After ne had left US maybe two or
three days ne came around one morn
ing and said to me: L want that 81
you owe me | did not know what he
was talking about | said: We don't
owe you any 81 or any other money
Get out of here
"'Oh, yes, you do he said, you hired
me for SO a week and owe me 81 more
for allowances, and [ want that extra
weeks wages and the 81 more Get
out of here, and get out while the going
is good / told him He left muttering,
and saying he was going TO sue us.
Judge Threw Out Case.
Sure enough, he went on March to
the municipal court on Gates avenue
and by swearing he was not worth more
than 500 he got a free summons for
Havestroh and me. He sued us for the
sl1 he had demanded from me. He got
two summonses, and he served one of
them on me, but he never served Have
stroh"
The unserve6 summons for Have
stroh was found yesterday by the po-
lice in the pocket of an old suit OF
Schranks clothes in his former quar-
ters at No. 1856 Canal street. 1t helped
Inspector Faurot's men to trail
Schranks movements in part which
they did in answer to request of that
nature from Chief of Police Thompson,
of Milwaukee.
The case was set down by Judge
Jacob +. Strahl for March %" Thur
mann said. and after trial, in which
Schranlls conduct showed he was
either a crazy man or well on his way
to being one, Judge Strahl threw the
case out of court, deciding it in our
favor"
Thurman referred the reporter TO
Harold A. Seaton, an attorney AT No
1913 Fulton street Brooklyn in whose
charge the saloon keepers case had
been Mr. Seaton told of Schrank's
frequent visits to his office in an at
tempt 70 force settlement Of his suit
"Schrank is certainly crazy Mr.
Seaton said. He got his summons re-
ltmnabe on March Il and then the trial
was set for March rs. Well in those
two weeks he almost pestered me and
nv employees to death. He also fright
ened my stenographer so badly ! could
hardly keep her in the office for fear
that Schrank would do her bodily harm
HE would come around, sometimes as
msnv as three times a day, and yell at
me. 7 want this case settled. want
NV money I'll get that 81 or youll be
the worse for it, He seemed fearful at
that time that the case would be de-
cided against him,