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

long while. but they finally got me.
was pretty strong for the skirts, ]
guess. and they sort OF fell for me.
Felt Lost Without $50.
but / simply mad to have money.
! never felt right unless ! had az
least fifty bones in my wallet: was
wise that my brother and Young
Whaley were lifting diamonds al
Nollmer's on Walton street, ana "
looked pretty soft 10 me ] wanted
to get in on the easy graft, so ! SOFA
the rocks for them and we split hfty-
nifty They got one-half ana got
the other.
ION the square. I'm really glad |
got caught. II ! hadn't ] probably
would have kept or until got nabbed
for some lob and then u would have
been over the road for a long stretch.
This means the. straight and narrow
for me from now on, I'm nnshed
with the millionaire stuff.
Freeman laughed over a converse
ton he recently had with the young
woman he vas 10 take 20 the theater
last Tuesday night and who broke
the engagement with him at the last
moment
she thought ! was strictly on the
level" said Freeman. II saw her
few nights ago and she told me that
she had seen me with a certain fell
low who has a reputation for being
a Crook The Vera, Vera Idea
81 don't want you to go with that
fellow she said Hes bad and he's
crook. Please don't go around with
him any more
u made her think was very much
shocked. a crook is he" | said.
Wen. | should say wouldn't go
a. ff
trail around with any crook and have
people thinking ! am one ! guess
that was pretty strong, wasn't it?"
Then he added Il wonder what
she thinks now p
Freeman might have held up and
robbed the n, c. and st. l.. train last
Friday night as he convincingly
b0asted 10 Ball but he is not going
to let the consequences disturb his
peace OF mind He was in fine spirits
at the station house. 70 be sure, even
If his startling train robbery story
was hoax. as the detectives now
believe, he is likely 20 do time for
being mixed up with his brother Eu-
gene and young Whaley in the theft
OF the Vollmer diamonds.
"A Flo for II Alp Stuff.
But he snapped his carefully man
toured fingers at the prospect. Such
a triviality could be considered later.
He dismissed the topic arily. If he
was at all impressed by his plight, he
failed to give any sign OF it. 1t was
a 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 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. t. J. Wha-
ley, q 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 K. S.
Freeman. is being sought by the de-
tectives Freeman has declared that
Mann never had anything to do with
any " 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 We're employees Of the Volt
mer iewelry firm at No. 90 / q Wal
ton street.