Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-23

Edward Myers, a seYenteen-year-
old boy, charged with forgery, and
his young wife of one month, Mary
Finn Myers, are behind the bars
at the Atlanta police station, await
ing a hearing before Recorder john
son on charges preferred by a local
bank through w. t. Gloer, manager
of the Adams National Detective
agency, of this city. e,
The charges are that Myers has
forged checks upon the Atlanta bank.
His young wife was arrested upon
suspicion. 1t is said that a large
number Of blank checks upon various
banks throughout the middle west
and south, were found in Myers room
at local hotel, and that his record
shows that he has been in trouble
before. The couple were arrested
Friday afternoon. .-\.
The police Saturday were investi-
eating at report that young Myers
may have had some connection with
Stuart Taylor and Eric May, the
boy bandits, who held up and robbed
two Peachtree street drug stores last
week, and. who are in the Fulton
jail, anu whose DOnuS nave
been fixed at $4,000 each.
In his cell at the station Saturday
AFTERNOON Myers denied positively
any knowledge of or acquaintance
with Taylor and May. ~
Hadn't Seen Others -,
"I don't see why the police want
to link my name with those fellows,
he said. "One of them came in here
and" showed me their picture and
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and I know that all that story of my
being their pal is a plain lie. have
never seen them before, and neither
has my wife,
Myers does not seem to be- any
older than the age he gave the police
has an independent, positive manner
about him which would give the I'M
preston that he is able to take care
of himself in spite of his youth. His
wife is few years older, and in
spite of her worry over the sudden
cious and attractive. She, too, seems
Independent and optimistic.
''This is the first time I have been
SOUTH" she said, land T don't like
the reception we got SO soon after
we arrived in Atlanta. We were on
trouble cashing a check, and now
they have got us both in Jail. |
don't understand the situation at all.
We have never been in prison De-
fore"
The young couple said they came
to Atlanta Wednesday. Myers says
that he is a waiter by trade. and that
he came to Atlanta from Cincinnati
by way of Knoxville. He says that
he expected to find work in Atlanta
and remain here. His wife is from
Colum bus, Kan, she says, and they
have known each other for eight
months, having been married since
the middle of October.
Detectives Wrong, He Says
When Myers had read the news
papers Saturday afternoon, he pro-
fessed to be very indigant. "They
have got it all wrong" he said.
THAT detective certainly has a good
| imagination. If those checks We're
bad 1 didn't know anything about it,
and I had the cash to cover them.
They arrested me at the bank Fri-
| day about noon, and brought me
down here. But it will all come out
all right. My father will get things
straight" He said that his father.
was G. M. Myers, a Pullman con-
ductor on the L. & N. railroad be-
tween Cincinnati and Knoxville. and
| that his home address was at 211
| East Eighteenth street., Covington
Kentucky.
| When asked about the charges of
robbing an official of the l.. & N not
very long ago. Myers said. "The de-
| tective got that wrong too, in his
! statement. to the newspapers. He
said that l robbed conductor. but