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


AT that time he annointed ma ,,ie
rent collector for the tenement house at
No. 43S East Eighty first street which
he said his uncle had left him. The
rents from that house amount to s14Sa
month
Not Known as Voter.
Schrank never seemed to me to be
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-
IKE anything we had ever dreamed of
MIN. 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 ALL
A 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
a reporter his personal experiences
with schrank
we got this man Schrank through
an advertisement. He started as lunch
man a SO a week, worked a week at
that, then We made him a waiter, and
then, because he was too stupid or
clumsy to be a waiter, we made him
lunchman again. He worked for us un-
| til about March /.
"On March 1 he came to me and said
he wanted his money and would quit
the job, as he was disguised with it,
He said we we're knucllling him down,
and a poor man did not have even a
fair chance to earn 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 go 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 a person in re-
duced circumstances VINO deserved q
great deal more from this world than
he had got
Thought Him a Weaklins.
Il always thought Schrank was a
Weskiing. OF course, | did not look
into his antecedents. You don't have
But | figured it out that there must be
a 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 weaklng I did not have
the heart to DO it.
After he had left US maybe two or
, three days he came around one morn
| ing and said to me: 1 want that $11
you owe me- l did not know what he
was talking about | said: We don't
owe you any $11 or any other money.
Get out of here.
"'Oh, yes, you do he said. you nired
me for SO a week and owe me 81 more
for allowances, and I want that extra
weeks wages and the 81 more Get
out of here, and get out while the going
/ is good I 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
s1f he had demanded from me. He got
two summonses. and he served one OF
them on me, but he never served Have
stroh"
The unserved summons for Have
stroh was found yesterday by the po-
lice in the pocket of an old suit OF
Schrank's clothes in his former quar-
ters at No. 1856 Canal street. 1t helped
Inspector Faurot's men to trail
schrank's movements in part which
they did in answer to a request of that
nature from Chief Of Police THOMPSON
of Milwaukee.
1.-The case was set down BY Judge
Jacob F. Strah for March 2S," Thur
mann said, land after trial, in which
Schrank's conduct showed he was
either a crazy man or well on his way
10 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,
s7S Fulton street. Brooklyn in whose
charge the saloon keepers case had
been. Mr. Seaton told of Schranks
frequent visits to his office in an at
tempt 10 force settlement of his suit.
"Schrank is certainly crazy Mr..
Seaton said. He got his summons re-
turnable on March IA 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 stenoerapher so badly ! could
hardly keep her in the office for FEAR
that Schrank would do her bodily harm,
He would come around, sometimes as
many as three times a day, and yen at
me Il want this case settled. | want
INV money. I'll get that ST. OF you'I be
the worse for it He seemed fearful ~
that time that the case would be de-
cided against him.
| oXvau Ana11V cot pretty tired OF