Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-13
MRS. BRADSTREET IS
To Be TRIED AUG. /
FOR E|NR!EZZLENENT
Former Owner of Motor Cars
and Diamonds Now Helps
Father to Run a Grocery
Store

ertswhile owner Of motorcarS md
diamonds, now helping her father to
run grocery store on North Boule-
ward, will be tried August IL in the
Campbell county criminal court on
the charge of 'embezzling from the
Fairburn Banking company.
Attorneys for William B. Green
former vice president of the bank
who was convicted On the same
charge last April. will plead for a
new trial in a hearing at noon Mon
day before Judge John B. Hutchinson,
of the Stone Mountain circuit
Green's petition, made public Satur-
day, asks a new trial on twenty-one
separate grounds.
The statement that Mrs. Brad
street positively will be tried, and
the filing of Green's amended petit
ton were developments Saturday In
the case that hasF aroused so much
public interest ever since Green and
Mrs. Bradstreet were arrested nearly
a year ago.
r1onths that Mrs. Bradstreet woulu
not be tried. but that the case against
Ter would. be polle pressed. Tie
rum0rs finally inspired a petition
signed by about thirty women o,
Fairburn and presented to Solicitor
George NJ. Napier, urging thai the
state take every step to bring Mrs.
Bradstreet to trial. =,
"I have received the petition" said
Solicitor Napier S y, and my
answer is this: Mrs. Bradstreet's
csae has been set for August IL; the
state has entered into no agreementt
whatsoever to hinder prosecution OF
the case, and, so far as know, there
is nothing that will keep the case
from coming to trial.
Case Sure to Be Called
Tudoa IIu+obeson was likewise en-
phatic in his assertion that, SO tai
as the state is concerned, Mrs. Brad
street will be tried. THE nlgh'
after GREEN'S conviction" SAID traot;t
case as a special order for Wednes'
day, August II, which is crim1na
week in the Campbell county court
The case could not be heard in April
because the trial of Green conSumec
the entire time. But l Will call tne
case on August IL. and L expect poIL
sides to be ready"
Fred Harrison, one of Mrs; Brad:
streets attorneys, said the Judge nae
served notice. on the defense to TINS
effect, and that Mrs. Bradstreet Is
ready to go On trial. The state, too
it is understood, will be ready. At,
torney Harrison said that Mrs. Brad,
street is in the city. She has moved
from her fathers old home at Pan
thersville to a place nearer Decatur
and, with her father and huspana
said Attorney Harrison, is running
the grocery store on North Boule-
ward. . 8,
When Mrs. Bradstreet is tried
however, the prosecution will be con,
Quoted by the state alone, unasslste d
by attorneys for the bank who help
ed conduct the case against Green
It is understood that the bank die
enter an agreement not to prosecute
Mrs. Bradstreet if she would make
q satisfactory settlement. She made
the settlement, and this agreemen1
proba bly is the cause that gave rise
to rumors she would not be trleo
Green's petition for a new trial
was to have been heard Saturday
before Judge Hutcheson. Attorneys
for both sides were ready, and At
counsel, furnished the prosecution
with copies of the amended petition
for a new trial. The hearing was
postponed only because of the alb
sence from the city Of George West
moreland, Green's leading counsel
land will be in town Monday, so that
the hearing is sure to be held.
Green Not Present
Green was not present before Judge
Hutchinson Saturday. He is at lib
erty under $4,000 bond, signed by
his relatives and close friends, but
he has been confined to his mother
home at Fairburn, where he is said
to be dangerously Ill.
grounds on which a new trial us
asked. The principal point raised by
the defense is that the court erred
in admitting as evidence the civil
suit brought by the bank against
Green. The petition characterizes
this cotton of tha "6i0n ifV-
ing a lot of wild and reckless allega-
lions by calling them real evidence"
The petition declares the court
erred several times in the charge to
the jury, asserting that the charge
was incorrect in law in its definition
of embezzlement, that it was "mixed
up and confusing and incapable of
being understood" and that it preju-
diced the jury unWarrantedly against
the defendant in several instances.
The petition recites instance after
instance of evidence admitted which
the defense claims should have been
ruled out. Some of this was evil
dence regarding events which took
place after Green's arrest, and
therefore was inadmissible, accord
recital of the effects of Mrs Brad
street, he took over as receiverd; J.
r. Byington's testimony of a con-
versation with Green, characterized
as "a moral lecture, immaterial, ir-
RELEVANT and highly prejdicial to
the defendant" Mrs. William Ly-
cetts testimony in regard to a pur-
chase by Mrs. Bradstreet; the tes-
timony of Sam Dack about the pur-
chase of an automobile by Mrs.
Bradstreet; Clarence Belle Isles tes-
tlmony concerning the late hours
Kept by Mrs. Bradstreet in returning
her automobile to his arage-these
ana other particulars should have
been ruled out, declares the petition.
=, The petition asks new trial. fur
verdict of the jury was not in legal
form in that it sentenced Green to
I'VE years outright, when the duty of
the jury. was to name a maximum
ana minimum sentence.
Attacks Martin Testimony
The petition attacks the testimony
OF W. {. Martin. who made the audit
OF the bank after Green's arrest, de-
caring he was allowed to "har-
rangue" the jury and that $50 per
cent OF his statement on the stand
was simply a TRADE against Green
Inc petition reproduces a letter
which the prosecution claimed was
written by Green to Mrs. Bradstreet.
1t was addressed to my darling
wife," and was signed bill" and
contained many endearing terms such
as dearest" angel sweetheart -
Darling Katherine, 1 just love you
so much | want to be with you all
the time" and with all my love
and great big goodnight kiss, yours
only and forever"
The petition claims this letter was
not admissible because it was I'M
dated wasn't addressed to Mrs. Brad
street and the,e WAS no evidence