Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-01

standing near the postoffice in Allan
ia, talking to Tillou Van Nunes.
when the Bradstreets and Green
drove up in an automobile and park
ed near us. She was at the wheel
Green seated next to her, Bradstreet
in the rear. Mr.. and Mrs. Bradstreet
got out, and when they passed us she
called me a scoundrel and he also
had something to say. She made
faces at me and called me skunk.
On cross-examination by Attorney
Newfoundland, Mr.. Gloer was posi-
tive that it was Green with the
Bradstreets.
Bob Waggoner, Atlanta city de-
tective, corroborated Mr.. Gloer's &C.
count of the visit TO the Georgian
Terrace and the conversation with
MIS-. Bradstreet on the night of her
arrest.
George Edmondson, cashie" of The
Falrburn Banking company and
formerly assistant cashier testified
that Green kept all the books of the
bark until the fire, except the indl-
vidual ledger showing customers &C
counts, deposits and the like. AS
general rule, said the witness, Green
WIS dDOuI lIlI06 udF Ia nC~P-
ms his books and during that time
it IS not possible for an examiner to
tel! the status of the bank, should
an examiner be called.
Passed On Overdrafts
Green, said the witness, had the
authority to say when overdrafts
should be allowed. The ovedraft of
Redwine Brothers, cotton brokers,
secured by cotton tickets, was paid
in full with interest, he said.
Mr.. Edmondson said he frequently
asked Green to post his books up to
dae, and last August he asked
Green to bring them UP to date and
after that he would keep them post
ed. Mr.. Green replied that he would
do that, said Mr.. Edmondson. One
day, said Mr.. Edmondson, he took
Green's books when Mr.. Green was
in Atlanta, posted them up and found
Green was short $4,000
While Mr. Edmondson was on the
stand, court was suspended while a
message was delivered from State
Treasurer w. J. Speer, who wished
it to go in the record that he made
q mistake in his testimony yester
day when he was so positive he had
appointed w. o. Martin to audit the
hank the day before the fire. AS
matter of fact said Judge Speer, he
found, on investigation that he did
not appoint Mr.. Martin until two
days after the fire.
With Mr.. Edmondson against on
the stand the burned books of the
bank were brought into court in Or
der to satisfy objections of the de-
tense to testimony concerning the
books when they were not produced.
Telephone Calls
The books, scared and scorched,
were in a pile at the witness feet.
On finding Green short $4,000, said
Mr.. Edmondson, he went to Green
that night after supper and inform
ed Green of his discovery, asking
for an explanation. Green told him,
said Edmondson, that most of the
shortage was due to, two notes owed
the bank by himself and Chester
Harvey, but he did not produce the
notes and there was nothing on the
books about them.
Green, said witnesses, received
telephone calls from a lady in At
lanta from one to several times a
day for months before the fire, al
ways going to the isolated phone in
the rear of the bank to talk.
Mr.. Edmondson said that the
bank never received single deposit
for Mrs. Bradstreet except once,
when Green deposited $195 to her
credit to meet a check she had
drawn. The witness said he had no
recollection of the Stutz Motor COM
rany calling up the bank last April
and asking if Mrs. Bradstreet's draft
for $4,000 was good. If anyone
answered the phone on that occa-
sion said the witness, it was not
himself.
Mr.. Edmondson described where
the bonds, notes, cash and other as
sets of the bank were kept. The
safe, he said, was the regular place
for keeping tho Liberty bonds
On October 6, said Mr.. Edmond
son, Green went to Atlanta, return
ing about 1890 in the faternoon. He
haG no packages of any kind so far
AS he could see, said the witness.
The reason I noticed Green was
because 1 thousht he had put up u
bogus excuse for going to Atlanta
said Mr.. Edmondson. He'd had a
telephone call from woman and I
believed he was going to meet her."
He described Green's actions that
afternoon and that night. Asked by
Mr.. Arnold if Green did any regular,
consecutive work that night, he said
Green sat at the typewriter a few
minutes, bust mostly was reading
the paper, talking to Mr.. Redwine
and was in and out.
Mr.. Edmondson said he left the
bank about 10 o'clock and that
Green was still there. With Mr..
Arnn1d Sf1,of iyocr
Jaw books on the table, the witness
described the interior of the bank,
the location of the vault and the
she'll where Green had told him he
had placed the Liberty bonds.
Green told Mr.. Martin, the audi
tor, he placed the bonds there on
Monday, Octoter g. said the wit
ness.
Went into Vault
Had you not been to the vault
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday of that week?' asked Mr.
Arnold.
Yes"
How many times a day."
Fifty times, at least"
Had you been to the exact spot
where he said he left the Liberty
Bonds?"
Yes, I went and got a sheet from
that shelf in connection with the
county's account
And you don't remember seeing
the Liberty Bonds at ALP"
mo, sir"
At the request of Mr.. Arnold, the
witness recited in detail what Green
told him about the robbers entering
the bank and binding and gagging
him. Green, he said, did lot men
ton the Liberty Bo7cs.
He said he found six or seven
thousand dollars in the ruins Of the
bank next day. Jewelry and watch
es, kept outside the safe, on a top
shelf were also found, he said.
On cross-examinatio the witness
admitted he himself did noe find the