Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-17
ALLEGATION MADE
THAT SHE COLLECTED
ALLOTMENT CHECKS
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date she began living, as his wife,
with Clarence Bradstreet, who was
then a sergeant in the army and re-
sided at 247 st. Charles avenue, At
lanta. Subsequent to her divorce
from her legal husband, to wit. on
August 25, 1919, she was married to
Clarence Bradstreet.
"It appears therefore that Agnes
Tate, alias Agnes Tate Shoemaker
received twelve allotments and al
lowance checks made payable to
Agnes Tate Shoemaker as the wife of
w. B. Shoemaker and that she con-
verified them to her own use.
Shoemaker was discharged from
the service on May 20, 1919"
The evidence told of a visit of an
examiner from the war risk bureau
to Mrs. Bradstreet while she was in
the Fulton county Jail on October
%, 1919.
claimed Mrs. Bradstreet received
checks the first six months OF 1919,
she denied caShing any in March,
1919, and thereafter. Mrs. Brad
street told Commissioner Carter that
Shoemaker made the allotment to her
against her wishes.
"Just before he left for France"
she said, Il saw him at the hostess
house at Camp Gordon and had lunch
con with him. Although L was not
married to him he told me, You are
my wife and wanted me to accept
the allotment checks. When they
came l used them to buy furniture
and other things for his mother, who
was living at Freeport, Ill. l have
no friends" she continued, weeping,
Shoemaker has done his best to do
me dirt"
When asked why she did not see
the department of justice operators
who tried to call on her Thursday
morning, she declared she had been
sick and that her doctor had sought
to protect her against any further
excitement.
After signing the bond, Mrs. Brad
street called for some water and TAX
ing some medicine from her hand
bag drank it and then left with her
father. Her bond was assessed at
only $500 because Mr.. Carpenter took
the position that this was sufficient
in view of the fact that she was al
ready under a $4,000 state bond.
The penalty for a conviction on
the offense charged against Mrs
Bradstreet is a fine Of not more than
$4,000, a prison sentence of not more
than one year, or both, in the discre-
ton of the court.
SAYS MRS. BRADSTREET
ct was talked into marrying Shoe
maker. just like was talked into
Queen Bradstreet told a reporter for
The Journal last autumn, nearly ten
months before her arrest Thursday
on charges of defrauding the United
States government and William b.
Shoemaker, formerly Camp Cor
don sergeant, out of allotments and
allowances aggregating $3.50.
At the time Mrs. Bradstreet made
this assertion she was a prisoner
in the Fulton county tower. 1t was
shortly after she and William E
Green were arrested on the charge
of embezzling the Fairburn Banking
company, and her story of the Shoe
maker marriage, with other details
of her history, was the first public
statement she made.
"Mr. Shoemaker was a fine man,
she told the reporter, ''only l just
didn't love him. Just yesterday
was anything in the world he and
his mother could do for me. they
wanted to do it."
This statement differs markedly
Thursday, that Mr.. Shoemaker had
done her dirt"
Mrs. Bradstreet's/ story of the
Shoemaker marriage, as taken from
the files of The Journal last year,
begins with the removal of the
Queen family from Cobb county
where Mrs. Bradstreet was born, to
south Georgia, where Mr.. Queen
owned a farm near Albany and where
kitty" the daughter of the family,
met her next-door neighbor, ]. B.
Tate.
Quoting from the interview last
VTate told me-" said Mrs. Brad
street, that he was twenty-five
years DID, but 1 learned later, when
the first draft came along, that he
was all of thirty-nine of forty. And
him. He came over to the house ev-
cry day. He came early in the morn
ing and he'd stick around all the
time, talking and talking to me even
when 1 was doing homework.
Agrees to Divorce
"Well, he talked me into marry
ing him. That's exactly what. he
did. l married him to keep him
from always begging me to marry
him. [ was young and L didn't know
much, and he was old and he knew
how to talk. :. He came every day
and two or three times l went to
the postoftice with him, but always
one day I slipped off with him alone
And when l came back l was mar
ried.
I'VE went buggy riding behind q
mule, and he stopped at The preach.
er's. 1 didn't want to marry him
even then. I wouldn't get out The
preacher had to come out to the
buggy and marry us with me sitting
! there, and me telling him all the
time I didn't want to. The minute
it was over, I said, What have
done?-I,Ve ruined my life" And it's
if I'd married the mule"
According to Mrs. Bradstreet'!
story, she lived with Tate only a few
| months before coming TO Atlanta be
! cause she was unhappy. Here shC
visited relatives, she said, and con
| tinued:
Mister Tate wrote to me an,
wouldn't and finally we agreed to b,
divorced. 1 told him to go aheat
and fix it UP and he did; he startec
| divorce proceedings. L didn't under
! stand much about it. 1 got som
divorce papers from a lawyer and
thought [ was divorced all the way,
! ~ Mrs. Bradstreet said she me
| Shoemaker in March, 1918, while h
! was a sergeant at Camp Gordon witt
| the Eighty-second division. Her ac
! count OF the affair, as it appeared il
The journal, was as follows:
| NO, L didn't love him, either, blu
he was like Mr.. Tate in one way
he kept begging and begging me t.
marry him. I told him, No, 1 don
love YOU but he would keep askin&
me. He said he was going to Franc,
most any day and he wanted to ge
! married before he left, and so on
| day-we were at the Hostess nous,
! at Camp Gordon, l remember TOLD
! him l would. 1 don't know why, bu
he just kept asking me and 1 though
all the time that my divorce hac
been granted. We were married II