Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14

entered the bank, DOund ana SdSSeC
him, and escaped with certain mon.
eys and papers. Since the fire the
bank has discovered, It is claimed,
that $4,000 in Liberty Bonds is
missing. Green declares the robbers
must have taken the bonds. The dis
appearance Of the bonds, coupled
with the sensational assertions by
detectives that Mrs. Bradstreet in
the last few months had spent thou
sands of dollars advanced her by
Green, led to his arrest.
Green has retained counsel in the
persons of Attorneys George West
moreland and Claude Smith, of Allan
ia, and Attorneys l.. S. Camp, OF
Fairburn. He went home to his wife
and little eight-year-old girl in
Falrburn Sunday night, but was in
Atlanta Monday morning, comforting
with his lawyers.
Interesting Disclosures
Interesting disclosures in connec-
ton with Mrs. Bradstreets past
were made Monday. 1t was said
| that Bradstreet was her third hus-
band. Her father is A. P. Queen, a
| farmer of Panthersville, in DeKalb
| county, where the family lives in
| circumstances rather poor in com
parison to the glittering life little
| Agnes Catherine" as her parents call
| her, has been living for these many
| months past.
The records are said to show that
| Agnes Queen married J. B. Tate in
Later, it is said, they were sep
arated and Tate instituted divorce
proceedings, but the case was dis
missed for lack Of prosecution. Still
later Tate is said to have insti-
tuted proceedings in Macon and to
have secured a divorce. On March
| 81, 1918, the woman who now is
known as Mrs. Bradstreet, was mar
ried to William Shoemaker, Of Free
| fort, Ill. The wedding is said to
have taken place in Atlanta at the
| home Of Rev. B. r. Thornbury, who
performed the ceremony.
One of the episodes in little Cath
crimes" life during her residence in
Atlanta was. it is said, to pose as the
| daughter or niece of one of Atlanta :
! most prominent business men.
1t is alleged that while she was
| making extensive purchases at At
as her father" to the salespeople
| when they raised any doubts con-
| corning the checks she gave as pay
ment The checks were never signed
| by the Atlanta man and she never
| charged anything to him, her sole
purpose apparently being to use
his name in order to give herself
| financial recognition. The matter
| was called to the attention Of this
man by some of his friends who
had heard of it, but he did not take
it seriously until, some months ago,
an attorney for her former husband,
Shoemaker, wrote a letter to the
Atlanta man stating that he would
institute proceedings for "aliena-
ton of affections" unless the At
lanta man settled for S25,000."
Shoemaker's attorney, coming to At
lanta, was convinced that the At
lanta man had never even seen
Shoemaker's wife, and dropped the
case. In fact, it is stated that Mrs.
Bradstreet admitted to attorneys that
she did not know the man in ques-
ton.
Mrs. Bra1screeT's statement
On Monday Mrs. Bradstreet gave
out a statement substantially as fol-
lows:
She said she was not quite nine
teen years old and had lived in At
lanta practically all her life, that
she met Green in August or Septem-
Der, 1918, having been introduced to
him by a soldier who later went to
France. She didn't know whether he
was married or single, she said, and
had no reason to inquire.
Green, she claimed, told her he
was a man of wealth, was vice presi-
dent of a bank and that, if she want
ed any money to call on him for a
loan. She says Green asked permis-
sion to call and that being separated
from her husband at the time and
not having married Bradstreet. she
allowed him to call. She says she
borrowed money from him IN
amounts ranging from 5000 to $S00'
but that she never borrowed more
than $500 at time and always gave
her personal note for it except when
Green made a memorandum.
Mrs Bradstreet says she was legal
Nv married in August to Clarence
Bradstreet, whom she had known
| when he was at Camp Gordon. She
was in Atlanta with her husband on