The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-17
Fashionable Women CroWd Court Room x; When Case Az qdinst Mrs. BainbridgeS.
 Charged Win Larceny, Is Presented

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 timony-Defense Silent Mrs. George Bainbridge charged with the theft of $400( worth of bonds from the room 1 of Mrs. c. $. Simmons at the Tutwiler hotel, will probably be bound over to the grane jury this afternoon at ? o'clock i She was given preliminary hearing in the second division or the municipal court yesterday alt ernoon before Judge Horace AL ford, who is acting in the absence of Judge Abernethy. The case was passed until today, when a decision will be rendered.
 Immediately after the case Was closed all witnesses were called before the Jefferson county grand jury.
 WOMEN CROWD COURT
 Long before the hour appointed
 for the preliminary hearing the
 courtroom was crowded with i'm
 terested spectators, every avail
 able chair. bench and window be-
 ing utilized.
 Many women were among the
 spectators.
 The state was represented by Hugo L. Black and Wallace McAdory, assistant solicitor. while the defense was repre- sented by J. Reese Murray and Mat thew Murphy. Six witnesses were in troduced by the prosecution. The de- fense presented no witnesses. Mrs. c. S. Simmons, when called to testitJ. tated that she had lived at the Tut wiler hotel for five or six years. Her room number was 1016, she declared and she left Birmingham on January G. 1919, and went to Hot Springs and Mineral Wells, Tex, returning to this city on March s, 1919. She said she had left $4000 worth of Louisville Gas and Electric bonds and United Light and Railway bonds, with some silver and other valuables, locked in box in the closet of her room. These bonds had been purchased from George Ward, a local broker, and there were two $1o0G bonds, one $500 bond and one $50c bond, according to Mrs. Simmons.
 THE SLIPPER BAG
 When slipper bag, alleged t"
 have been found in the room Of
 Mrs. Bainbridge in Chicago, was
 introduced by Mir. Black, the wit
 ness declared it was her bag and
 had been made for herJ by Mrs.
 William Walker and Mrs Robert
 bc frvr stated her
 room was leased by her while away
 and declared no one had access to
 the box but herself
 George Ward was the next witness and he bore out the testimony of Mrs. Simmons regarding the number and value of the bonds alleged to have been stolen.
 Fred Shreman, manager of the Tut wiler hotel, stated he knew Mrs. Bain- bridge, as she had stopped at the ho- tel, either the latter part of January or the first of February. When asked if he had rented Mrs. Bainbridge room 1016, the one occupied by Mrs. Sim mons, he replied that one of the clerks had
 Herbert A. Dunklee, clerk at the Tutwiler. took the stand and stated had stopped at the hotel from Feo- ruary 1 to 10, and had registered from
 
 Pittsburg. Pa.
 BONDS FOR SALE
 Frank A. LongshOre of a New Or leans brokerage firm testified that he knew Mrs. Bainbridge and had seen her In New Orleans within the last two months. He stated she gave him s25OO worth of bonds to sell for her and he had sold $500 worth, the 5000 bond be- ing mailed to her in Birmingham in
 -Is ss-fD avenue. When asked if she had told hin, she needed money, he answered that she had, and he had advised her not to sell the bonds hut to go to bank and Ob- tain a loan on them. MT. LOngshOre said she had told him she wanted to invest the money in stocks, and he had told her the bonds were very good in- vestment for woman to have. He declared she came in to see him with a Mrs. Estes of Jacksonville, Fla. When asked if Mrs. Bainbridge had told him she had sold any bonds prior to that time, he answered "yes." and said she had told him that she sold $500 worth. Mrs. Bainbridge told him she had been advised not to sell the bonds. and asked him if they were registered, according to his testimony. He told her they did not appear to he.
 Mir. Black asked him if he got a re-
  stated he had registered the bond and when the receipt came back it was signed Mrs. George Bainbridge, per Mrs. l.. Anderson.
 SEARCHING THE ROOM
 The next witness introduced by the state was Edward P. Birmingham, sergeant of the Chicago police. He stated he knew Mrs. Bainbridge. He had gone to her apartment in Chicago on March 27, he stated and made a search, finding the slipper bag that had been introduced as evidence. It was tackled on the inside of the closet door of Mrs. Bain bridges room, according to the of fcer.
 While the officers were searching the rooms, MT. Birmingham stated, Mrs. Bainbridge was sitting on the bed, and when they asked her to move they dis covered she had been sitting on five toilet articles marked with the initial "S.- He further stated one of the ar ticles, q nail file, had been found be- tween the mattress and bed.
 He declared that no one, So far as he