Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-14
MRS. BRADSTREET
FREE, WILL TRY TO
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places in the box. "A strained hush
fell on the crowd.
Gentlemen, have you reached a
verdict" asked the judge.
The foreman, Rey. E. G. Ham
mond, nodded.
What is it?"
mot guilty."
A vast sigh passed over the crowd,
but there was no applause. Mrs.
Bradsreet rose, her head 1lung
back.
IT thank you, gentlemen, very
much" she said in a clear voice.
She fell back into her seat, while
lawyers and others nearby reached
over to shake her hand. AS the jurors
crowded past her chair, she reached
I'D and shook hands with each OF
them.
Smiles at Crowd
The crowd waited. Mrs. Brad
street rose, facing them. She shrank
for second, then walked up, the
crowded aisle. She smiled at them,
fully, and many Of them smiled
back.
Her brother was at her side. They
go ia taxicab, and a few minutes
later had disappeared in the night
toward Atlanta. With the red roads
clogged with mud, 1t must have been
midnight before they reached home
midnight and Friday the thir-
teenth! But not exactly unlucky for
Mrs. Katherine Bradstreet.
There still is one charge hanging
over Mrs. Bradstreet. She is eharg
ed in the United States court with
defrauding the United States gov
eminent by accepting the pay allot-
ments of w. B. Shoemaker. formerly
a. soldier at CamD Gordon
The case was another of the
stormy episodes in her career Of the
last two years. She met Shoemaker,
she says, while she was engaged to
Bradstreet, and before her divorce
from Tate, her first husband, had
been granted. Her acquaintance with
Green was going on at the time, too.
Shoemaker, on the eve of de-
parture to France with the Eighty
second division, talked me into mar
rying him." according to Mrs. Brad
her final decree from Tate had not
been granted. Later it was granted,
she says she thought her marriage
to Shoemaker was illegal, and mar
ried Bradstreet.
AS to the matter of the pay alott-
ments, the whole business is Just a
when the case is heard in the United
States court later this month, ac-
cording to Attorney Harrison, who
will defend her.
Dispatches from Freeport, Ill,
Shoemaker's home, stated Friday
that the ex-soldier has filed suit
there to annul his marriage to Mrs.
was not divorced from Tate. The
dispatches state that, after Shoe
makers departure to France, Mrs.
Bradstreet went to Freeport and WIS.,
tied Shoemaker's omther and sister.
In this connection, it is interesting
Thursday bore a Freeport date line.
Green, Broken Man
Green's fate still is to be finally
decided. He was convicted at his
trial in the spring and sentenced to
seven years for embezzlement His
attorneys appealed for a new trial,
but Judge Hutchinson denied their pc
tition. Then they appealed to the
court of appeals, but the court has
not yet passed on the appeal.
In the meantime, Green Is enjoy
ing comparative liberty under heavy
bond. He is, however, a broken man.
When he testified for the defense at
the Bradstreet trial Thursday, he
looked much grayer, older and de-
feated than when, at his own trial,
he sat day after day with his law
yers, smiling at times. and apparent
ly in good health.
He keeps close at the, home Of his
mother in Fairburn, where his wife
and his little girl sometimes come to
see him from his old home across
the town which the bank is trying to
get in part reparation for the en-
bezzlement.
While the acquittal of Mrs. Brad
tot
altogether unpopular in Campbell
county, opinion when the case went
to the jury was about evenly divid-
ed as to whether she would be de-
clared guilty or innocent. AS one
woman put it, When Judge Hill got
was. going free, he had me that sor-
ry for her! But when Colonel Ma
pier started, and when he got
through, I was all up in the air, and
wasn't SO sorry for her, eitherw
The attorneys arguments, in fact,
were genuine masterpieces Of logic
and oratory combined. They start
ed when court reconvened and did
not end until o'clock. when Colonel
Napier ended and Judge Hutchinson
began his charge to the jury.
Solicitor Napier began the sum-
ming up of the states case against
Mrs. Bradstreet by. reading a num-
S1nD6ZZ16menC
cases. He read the indictment
against her and then, standing in
front of the jury box, launched into
brief resume of his argument.
He charged that the intimate re1a-
lions between Green and Mrs. Brad
street, her easy acceptance of his
money and gifts ranging from a fur
coat to luxurious home, her will
ingness to take stock in the Fair
burn bank without putting up a cent,
all confirmed the allegation that she
conspired with Green to defraud the
bank.
Later continued Solicitor Ns-
pier" 1 will show you in detail how
the facts confirm the Indictment"
for the defense, declared that never
in his life had he heard a case where
so much irrelevant testimony was
introduced. He urged the jury to
disregard all but one issue, whether
she was guilty of embezzlement, not
member that she always thought of
Green, by his own testimony, as n
wealthy banker" we'll provided with
money of his own.
She Entrusted Green
| He drew a word picture of the
| case as he saw it, Green, the mayor
or or Sunday school superintendent.
Mrs. Bradstret. a young country girl
not then eighteen. coming to At
lanta to meet Uncle Jack" who,
fro mthe beginning. declared Attor-
ney Harrison had designs on her.
| "If Green had gwen her a mill
lion and she never knew the money
came from the Fairburn bank. she