The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-17
Attractive Woman Tries
 to Give Prisoner Saws
lcontinnea from Paee Fivel

crook ergo. neither would he have an ordinary wife She has a bundle ln her pocket. An ordinary woman smuggling things to a prisoner would have such package concealed, but this IS not d" ordinary woman,
 Take out the package and look at U and offend one who is evidently lady3 Not these officers. But duty called TOT survey of that bundle. Each man looked at the other and knew exactly what his teammate was thinking. so they let her go upstairs to see " are Kemp followed and slipped the puhoie from her pocket without the woman no ticing it. A quick examination showed is contents. MT. Brooks, who had kept in touch with the situation, caLied Mrs' Ware and Kemp to his office. The pack age was opened before her eyes one didn't flicker an eyelid.
 Mrs. Kemp was taken to detective headduarters, and her suitcase was brought from local hotel:
 CAME FROM LITTLE ROCK In the cross-examination that followed she said her name was Mrs. H. Down ing of Little Rock, Ark. She was placed in the lookup under a charge of being a dangerous, suspicious character.
 An examination of the suitcase showed many letters to her from Ware, addressed to Der as his wife, also an unfinished letter to him, denoting the same relationship. She had kept many of his letters They were on the paper of hotels in many parts of the coun try and told of his struggles to bet ter his financial status.
 In the research that has been going on since Wares arrest here, January A. the fact has come to light that Ware finished, in August of last year, q two-year term in the federal peni-
 tentiary al Atlanta, punishments for having impersonated an officer of the | United States army.
 1 The letters showed that Ware had married after he got out of the peni- /, tentiary. The letters written to his 1 wife reached her in Athens. Ga. l Birmingham officers feel very kindly disposed toward the girl. Moth 1 ing was found in her belongings to denote that she had the slightest idea 1 of what sort of man she was con nected with. They admire her pluck ! in trying to free man whom she be- lieved to be innocent. Her offense in attempting to 1iberate a prisoner~can- l not be overlooked, but things are to
 be made as light for her as possible. l WHAT WARE DID HERE 1 Ware is a fine looking man. well built, clean cut and evidently an ath I lete. what ne dld In 6lrinlngnam Ces 1 January IA was this:
 | He deposited with the American Trust and Savings Bank, for collection, ] a check for $2,600 drawn against the Whitney National Bank of New Or ! leans. It was made payable to Thur man Hardwick,n and indorsed in the
 rame of the Frerich Lumber Company of New Orleans. Ware received a re- ceipt for the check from one of the bank officials. Later he called IF Steiner Brothers bankers. and ordered $7,500 worth of liberty bonds. Later ke went to the brokers office and dis
 cussed the transaction. He asked tha
 500 worth of the bonds be brough
 to him at the Tutwiler hotel. In thu
 meantime he had made out another
 check taking a copy of the bank of
 ficiafs receipt signature for the check he had deposited.
 The Steiners and Sergeant Giles me
 kim in the hotel and it was proposed
 that all should go to the bank to com
 plete the transaction. They started
 but a few blocks along the street War,
 broke and ran. He would have gotter
 away had he not fallen and the meI
 who were with him caught him befor'
 he could get up again.
 the allies cannot settle the question with
 out the cooperation of the United States