Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-23

a long while, but they finally got me.
| was pretty strong for the 'sklrts' !
guess, and they sort OF fell Tor me
Felt Lost without $50
But ! simply mad to have money.
never felt right unless ] had at
least fifty bones In my wallet, was
wise that my brother and young
Whaley were lifting diamonds al
Vollmer's on Walton street and 10
looked pretty soft to me. } wanted
to get in on the easy graft so sofa
the rocks for them and we splt hity-
nifty They got one half and ! got
the other.
ION the square, m really glad
got caught If ] hadn't ! probably
would have kept on until ! got naobed
for some job and then II would nave
been over the road for long stretch
This means the straight and narrow
for me from now on I'm hn!shed
with the millionaire stun,
Freeman laughed over q converse
ton he recently had with the young
woman he was to take to the theater
last Tuesday night and who broke
the engagement with him at the last
moment
she thought I was strictly on the
level" said Freeman. u saw her a
few nights ago and she told me that
she had seen me with certain fel-
low who has reputation for being
A Crook The Vera, Vera Idea
I don't want you to go with that
fellow, she said He's bad and he's
crook Please don't go around with
him an. more.
= made her think was very much
shocked a crook Is he?' | said.
Well should say | wouldn't go
around with him, don't mean to
trail around with any crook and have
people thinking ! am one. guess
that was pretty strong, wasn't 1t?
Then he added II wonder what
she thinks noW?'
Freeman might have held up and
robbed the y, G. and st. l.. train last
Friday night. as he convincingly
boosted to Ball, but he is not going
to let the consequences disturb his
peace Of mind He was in fine spirits
at the station house. no be sure, even
If his startling train robbery story
was a hoax as the detectives now
believe, he is likely to do time for
being mixed up with his brother Eu-
gene and young Whaley in the theft
Of the Vollmer diamonds
"A Fla for II All' Stuff.
But he snapped his carefully man
toured fingers at the prospect. Such
triviality could be considered later
He dismissed the topic airily. If he
was at all impressed by his plight, he
failed to give any sign OF II. II was
huge Joke to him, to all appearances.
in spite of his philosophy on the ruin
that trails the white light devotees.
Should his confession OF the train
robbery, which he now declares was
a fake, prove true, his victims will
have the dubious consolation Of
knowing that they were despOiled Of
their worldly goods by as fashion
ably attired and iaunty an outlaw as
ever cooked a pistol or cracked
safe
Meanwhile just to the degree that
Reuell Is complaCent and buoyant, his
brother Eugene is in the slough of
despond. He has confessed to his
part in the $500 diamond robbery He
took at least one OF the diamonds,
according to his admissions, which
the police say they have. =. l.. Wha-
ley youth Of II, is said to have
confessed to the taking of two others.
All were good sized and valuable
stones.
George Mann, a friend of r. S.
Freeman, is being sought by the de-
tectives. Freeman has declared that
Mann never had anything to do with
any OF the transactions for which he
Is being held but the department
wishes him to explain his sudden dis
appearance when he found that the
Freeman brothers and Whaley were
under arrest Whaley and Eugene
Freeman were employees Of the Voll-
mer jewelry firm at No. 65 IL Wal
ton street