The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-24
GRESSER CAVE A
DIAMOND RING TO
APRETTY NURSE
Prosecution Charges He Was
Infatuated With Her.
Wife Admits She Knew OF the
Ring Incident.
BROTHER-IN-LAW is CLOSE?
Ed Gresser Walked TO Get Car
Transfer, Charged.
Lawyers Have Hot Words in
Bank Embezzlement Trial.
Rn0HQFO AAAM TE0TIEIEc
Ed GreSSer Walked TO Get Car
Transfer, Charged.
Lawyers Have Hot Words in
Bank Embezzlement Trial.
ACCUSED MAN TESTIFIES
Says He Confessed to Shortages
To Save His Brother.
Ed Promised To "Straighten
Things Out" He Says.

Clark Gresser, on the stand this af-
ternoon admitted that he had made
confessions to the shortages at the
Citizens State bank and said he made
these admissions at the request of his
brother Ed Gresser, to protect his
brother His brother told him he was
afraid to have the shortages become
public on account of suspicious grow
ing out of a $4,000 theft found years
ago which caused Peter Smith, then
president of the bank, to go insane,
he said.
The witness said Ed told him he
would smooth things out after the
trouble was all over, and would re
imburse hi mfor the money he turned
over TO the bank to cover the short
age.
Pretty Nurse Brought In.
A wife sacrifice in selling her
household furniture and her diamond
ring to save the family reputation and
her faith in her husband, was told to-
day in Judge Whitcomb's division of
the district court by Mrs. Clark Gres-
ser in the third day of the trial of her
husband, charged with embezzling
$4,000 from the Citizens state bank
keeper. Mrs. Gresser Verged on tears
several times under a sruelling cross
examination by Robert D. Carver,
county attorney. Always tho, she re-
covered herself and answered the
questions tired at her easily and dis
tinctly.
Another woman, Miss Freda Mar
bureer. nurse at Christ's hospital,
entIred into the case this morning
with the appearance of Mrs. Gresser
on the stand. Carver demanded if
Mrs. Gresser didn't know that Clark
Gresser had become infatuated with
the nurse while confined in the hos
pitaI following his operation, whether
she didn't know that Clark Gresser
had presented the nurse with a dia-
mond ring and whether she didn
know that the nurse had been tried by
the hospital board as a result of the
alleged infatuation of the accused
bookkeeper and herself.
Il know he gave the nurse ring
said Mrs. Gresser. In fact he pre-
sented the ring to me first 1t was
not a ring he had purchased. it was
one he had obtained on money he had
loaned. He offered it to me and !
told him to sell it, believing he could
get twice as much on it as he had
loaned. That proved not to be true.
So we kept it and he gave it to the
girl who had taken care of him at the
hospital
Heard of Nurses Trial.
Don't you know that the nurse
WAS tried publicly for her actions by
the hospital board ?" Carver de-
manded
I lust heard hear say"
T. D. NICK Keever. an attorney FOR the
defense, in redirect examination re-
turned to the story of the "other wo-
man dug up by the prosecution.
isn't it fact, Mrs. Gresser, that
Miss Marburger is working at Christ
hospital now?' he asked.
at is" she replied
.sDidu't we talk to her over the tele-
nbone from my office the other day? ?"
I'VE did"
Tears were yelling in the ewes of
Mrs Gresser as McKeever continued.
"You have the utmost confidence in
vour husbands innocence and be-
hayior the same today as you had the
dav Won married him ?''
s.T have" replied Mrs. Gresser, and
an audible sob was heard in the court
room for the first time.
excitement was intense thruout the
trial today. Attorneys clashed numer-
ous times. Judge Whitcomb called
McKeever down for arguing with the
prosecutors and at the same time sus-
famed Mex Keevers objection Nc
Keever called Carver and Fisher
towards for not permitting Mrs. Gres-
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