Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-07
MRS. BRADSTREET
/ REARRESTED AND
| PLACED IN JAIL

FAIRBURN, Ga, Aug. 5.-For the
first time since her arrest last au-
tumn, charged with conSpiring with
William B. Green to embezzle funds
of the Fairburn Banking company
Mrs. Katherine Queen Bradstreet was
Out under $4,000 bond, assessed
when she was indicted in February
on the embezZlement charge, Mrs.
Bradstreet was re-arrested in At
lanta Wednesday night by a deputy
acting under authority from Judge
had been informed Mrs. Braustreet
was about to leave the state to
avoid trial here next week.
o. A. Gullatt. the deputy who ar
told at her home that she was i'll
in bed and could not bemoved. He
called her physician, he said. and
was informed by him that Mrs. Brad
street was not too sick to be taken
TO Fairburn, whereupon she was
made to get up and dress.
Mrs. Bradstreet was accompanied
to Fairburn by her husband, Clarence
BradStreet. who was arrested with
her when she was first held last fall,
but who was later released. and has
never been indicted on any charge.
The woman who has been such a
sensational figure in the Fairburn
bank case this morning occupied a
room in the red brick Jail which
adjoins the home of Sheriff Jenkins.
lawyer and from her husband during
the day.
Not Allowed to See Friends
The presence of Mrs. Bradstreet In
Fairburn for the first time since the
story Of her relations with Green
one-time mayor and first citizen"
of the town, became public property,
was a matter of no little curiosity,
but small excitement to Fairburn
people. Those who inquired at the
Jail this morning were not allowed
to see her.
In another part of Fairburn. Green.
undd $40, 900 bond pending the state
ment of his attorneys. that he will
appeal to the court of appeals for
new trial, is at the home of his
mother. He was convicted last spring
on the embezzlement charge, and re-
Gently was nenied a new trial by
sided at the spring trial.
:. Court now is in session in Fair
burn. Mrs. Bradstreets case is to
be called next Wednesday, August
II. She will be defended by Judge
Harrison, one of whom was expect
ed in Fairburn today to make efforts
70 obtain her release. The prosecu-
ton will be conducted by Solicitor
george Nj. Napier. Attorneys Tor
the bank will not assist him as they
did at Gren's trial, since the bank
made an agreement not to prosecute
Mrs. BradStreet If she would make a
settlement with the bank, which she
did many months ago.
Arrest Was q Surprise
Mrs Bradstreet's re-arrest came
as a surprise yesterday. 1t was Or
dered, it is understood, because
rumors were af1oat that she would
s.skip her bond rather than stand
trial next week. Her only hondsman
was her father, A. P. Queen.
Whether her attorneys can persuade
the court to release her until the
trial or make a higher bond in case 1T
should be assessed, remained to be
seen today.
Green's friends state that he is i'll
also They declared recently that he
suffered a nervous breakdown when
some one called him over the tele-
phones giving the name of Mrs.
Bradstreet.
There was some talk here today
that at the same session of court
at which Mrs. Bradstreet will be tried,
Green will also be tried on the
charge of arson, on which he was in
dicted jointly with the enbezzlement
charge.