Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
DEFENDANT DENIED
APPEAL FOR CHANGE
OF VENUE BY COURT.
Campbell Courtroom Crowd
ed to Capacity as Woman
Faces Trial -Mother and
Father Arrive Late
BY WARD GREENE,
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal.)

(Stam Correspondent of The journal. }
FAIRBURN, Ga, Aug. ia jury
Of seven farmers, one blacksmith, one
mechanic, one truck driver, a lumber
dealer and a Baptist preacher will
decide whether or not Mrs, Kathe-
rine Queen Bradstreet is guilty of
the charge of conspiring with Will
liam b. Green to embezzle thousands
Of dollars from the Fairburn bank
ing company.
This was the jury chosen by 1870
o'clock this morning, just three hours
and half after Mrs. Bradstreet's
trial began. Only two panels and
part or third were exhausted before
the last juror was chosen.
AS each man was examined Mrs.
Bradstreet. seated with her lawyers
at table in front of the hot packed
court room, scanned his face closely.
1t was the nod or the shake of her
head that decided, in each instance.
whether the juror was acceptable to
the defense. The twelve who will
hold her fate in their hands all were
approved by her.
Nervous at first, breaking into
tears when her mother arrived at 9
o'clock, Mrs. Bradstreet gradually
grew more composed. She whispered
to her lawyers and even smiled and
chatted with her mother and father,
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Queen. Her hus-
band, Clarence Bradstreet, was not in
a. court. Two big palm leaf fans were
! kept busy by her and Mrs. Queen,
for it was intensely hot and the crowd
was so thick it jostled her now and
again.
Mrs. Bradstreet's trial got we'll IN
der way only after three attempts
to delay it had been made by the
defense.
Defense Loses First Skirmish
A series of attempts by the de-
tense to delay the trial of Mrs.
Bradstreet, failed one by one this
morning, with the result that at 10
o'clock the picking of a jury began.
1t was assured that probably by
the end of the week Mrs. Bradstreet
will know whether she will be con-
victed or freed of the charge of con-
& spring with William B. Green to en-
bezzle thousands of dollars from the
: Fairburn. Banking company.
First the defense asked for
change of venue. This was denied.
Next the defense asked for super
sedeas, while appealing this decision.
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declared it could not announce ready
unless William B. Green was present
as chief material witness for their
case.
Green's lawyers assured the court
that Green would appear when want
ed. and on this assurance the de-
fense said it would waive his pres
ence now and go on with the trial.
Despite the heavy downpour that
drenched the red hills of Campbell
county this morning the courthouse
at Fairburn was packed to suffoca-
ton for the trial of Mrs. Bradstreet
Court Called to Order
When court was called to order at
O'Clock, judge, attorneys, tales
men, witnesses and spectators, who
filed every bench, were present, but
Mrs. Bradstreet had not yet ap-
peared.
Ninety-five per cent of those in
the courtroom were men. -Four
women of Campbell county occupied
chairs near the front of the court
room. Mrs. Green was not in court,
nor was her little daughter.
An extra panel of talesmen was
summoned and sworn, then the case
of The State VS.. Mrs. Katherine
Bradstreet was called and Sheriff
Jenkins departed to fetch Mrs. Brad
street from the Jail, about 200 yards
from the courthouse.
While court waited Judge Ben H.
Hill, of counsel for Mrs. Bradstreet,
introduced a petition, asking for
change of venue in the case on the
ground that too much prejudice OBJ
tanned in Campbell county for Mrs.
Bradstreet to have fair trial.
Mrs. Bradstreet Enters
The petition charged that all jurors
summoned to try Mrs. Bradstreet had
heard the evidence introduced at
Green's trial and denunciatory
speeches against Mrs. Bradstreet,
which also had been published in the
press and widely circulated
Among other grounds for a change
of venue, the defense declared an
inf1ammatory petition had been circu-
lated by women of Fairburn, demand
ing an immediate trial for Mrs.
Bradstreet.
"Passion and prejudice have been
so aroused in the county against
Mrs. Bradstreet that she cannot get
a fair trial here" declared the pc
tition.
When Judge Hill finished reading
the petition there was another wait
until Mrs. Bradstreet arrived to
swear to the charges recited in it.
There is only one entrance to the
courtroom, the front door. Around it
and wedged in solid jam down the
single aisle were men. At $3.50 Mrs.
Bradstreet was escorted in by Sheriff
Jenkins. who paved q way for her
through the staring spectators, whom
she brushed as she passed in with
bowed head.
Mrs. Bradstreet was dressed In
black taffeta, simply but stylishly.
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