Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-03

dense / couldn't see anything al
though the lights were turned on.
Then L crawled out of the door and
got my feet united. I told the tele-
phone operator and then called Mr..
Reed across the street,
Then 1 went back to the banw and
in few minutes Mr.. Langford and
others brought the hose. 1 helped
conect the fire hose and asked that
the water be directed in the front
window, because / knew there were
many important books and papers
at this point.
Another hose was put at the back
of the bank and then 1, with others,
took a hose on the roof of the store,
where 1 stayed until the fire was I'M
der control.
after getting the fire under con-
troll came down, and the others in
sisted that 1 should go home. After
seeing that the vault door had re-
manned shut during the fire I went
home, where 1 stayed until morning
I'm the morning 1 went back to
the bank to see what books and pa
pers of value had been saved.
Some time during the day some
one went into the vault and trans
ferred it's contents to the safe in
Mr.. Roberts store. l did not go into
the vault.
ION Saturday I went back and
looked at the place in the vault
where I had placed the Liberty
Neither were the envelopes which
had been with them. Papers were
scattered all about the vault.
"On Saturday night I was in
formed that two suspicious looking
men had been seen in Palmetto, and
l went down there with the sheriff.
why He Had Gun
This accounts, for the fact that I
had a gun in my pocket when seen
by the Pinkerton man that night.
This man asked me if 1 had not
spent a lot of money on Mrs. Brad
street. I told him no, that had not
spent anything. Later I was arrest
ed and Sunday afternoon warrant
was sworn out and I was released
on bond. I came back to Fairburn.
when Mr. Martin was appointed
to audit the books I offered him all
possible assistance"
Green then asked permission to
see the statement which had been
submitted by Mr.. Martin to the in
surance company. Over the objec-
ton of the states counsel he was
given this statement.
About Liberty Bonds
4. "Mr. Martin asked me to explain
to the insurance company about the
number of the bonds that were
stolen. To the best of my knowledge
they were between $33,500 and $34,-
600 worth of Liberty bonds in the
vault that night. I had brought in
that day from the Trust Company Of
Georgia $43,500 in Liberty bonds
that I had there as collateral on the
banks paper. I carried them by the
state treasurer's office. to show Mr..
eagle, who had called my attention
to the fact that in the last audit Of
the bank there had been no receipt
for these bonds.
ION the night of October I had
the bonds out Of the vault to make
a list Of the numbers and to separate
the bonds belonging to Mr.. Roberts
and one or two other people. I was
working that night to prepare state
ment for Mr.. Speer to show my
$4,000 notes as bills payable as he
had required. I also had some other
notes and cash items out of the vault.
Some of these have since been found
and collected Others have not.
Sometime in September or Octo-
Der, 1918, during the fourth Liberty
loan campaign, was introduced to
Mrs. Bradstreet, at the Piedmont
hotel, by a soldier I knew. Her hus-
band was at Camp Gordon. 1 saw
her five or six times in q month and
when I would go to the camp to ar
range for a band to come to Fair
burn for Liberty loan rallies, she
would ride out there with me to see
her husband.
81 learned to care for her and per-
haps became infatuated with her, for
she is very fascinating lady.
After the period from October to
December I saw her only a few times.
She and her husband seemed to have
money. They were always we'll
dressed and spent money freely. 1
was infoemed that their people were
well off. In December, I made her
a loan of $50 of SIS, and then loaned
her various sums, not over 500, till
April, 1919 These loans she always
paid. In April, 1919, she bought
house and lot on st. Charles avenue,
in Atlanta, and 1 loaned her larger
amounts, not on long time, however,
but mostly for 80 days. 1 made her
loans to buy jewelry and to pay the
bill at Aliens of $1,000.
"This loan she repaid $4,000 in
cash and the balance in notes.
had this as a cash item for Is days
or more.
II answered many phone calls in
the back room, for it was too
noisy to hear up in the front part
of the bank. We always did this on
long distance calls. In July 1 loan
ed her $4,000. This was t check
cashed at the Third National bank
in Atlanta. L wrote them saying l
understood her to be the daughter
of wealthy Atlanta man.
"I saw Mrs. Bradstreet in New
Orleans in December, 1919, when the
Shriners were holding a convention.
She was with some ladies 1 didn't
know and 1 was with her only
about two or three hours.
LAS to the certificates of deposit
these enteries on the register were
merely as a memorandum and were
not CONSIDERED accurate. know
nothing about the other certificates
being marked paid with the rub
Der stamp.
Completes Statement
I'm regard to the check of the
cash book in August by Mr.. Ed
mondson we had talked various times
Of him taking the cash book, but
we had so much and kept him so
busy that we hardly ever had time
to do it. He checked it up, as I
remember, about $4,000 short as
it appeared to him. I was never
advised by my attorneys not to talk
to Mr.. Martin about affairs of the
bank but in talking to Mr.. Martin
L have never seen the books or pa
pers Of the F'airburn bank. All Of,
my talks with him proved to be a
series Of cross examinations.