Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-14
would not be guilty" asserted MT

Harrison.
He declared Green. to make an i'm
preston on her, never Tor one mo
ment, allowed her to belive. that he
home not paid for. He always posed
as a man of wealth, asserted Har-
rison, and Mrs. Bradstreet never
doubted for a moment~that he was
all he said he was.
That, declared Attorney Harrison
was the long and short of the case
Green never let Mrs. Bradstreet think
that he couldn't afford his gifts right
out of his own pocket: Mrs. Brad
street never suspected he couldn't
afford them. She had not the re-
hottest idea that he was emne ei4
how, then, could she be guilty OF
embezzling herself?
bank officers and the bank directors
didn't know embezzlement was go
ing on right under their noses, how
in the world was Mrs. Bradstreet,
way up there in Atlanta. to know it,
demanded Attorney Harrison.
Attorney Harrison finished his ar
gument by charging that Mrs. Brad
street had been prosecuted ever since
her arrest and it was high time she
was given justice and a verdict Of
not guilty.
Judge Ben Hill closed the argu-
ment for the defense He discussed
the various legal phases of the case
in an effort to show that Mrs. Brad
street never stole the money herself,
because she wasn't in Fairburn and
was entrusted with no funds of the
bank; that Sh eWaS not an accessory
before the fact, because it was ridl-
culous to suppose she, an 18-year-old
girl, formed a plot for Green to car
~ out and that, lastly she was not
an accessory after the fact; she did
not know Green stole, didn't try to
cover up his gifts, but fairly paraded
his extravagant purchases.
"BiI Green was a better man than
the Poltroon Adam, whose excuse
was the woman tempted me-" said
Judge Hill. BILL Green, shaken dis
eased, afflicted, his future black be-
fore him. came into this courthouse
today, and like man, said I was to
blame She never knew where the
money came from, she is innocent.
Judge Hill referred to the Biblical
story of Mary Magdalene in an emo
tional appeal that brought tears into
the eyes of Mrs. Queen and OF Mrs.
Bradstreet herself. The very fact
that no hint of defrauding the bank
appeared in any of the letters from
Mrs. Bradstreet to Green, read at the
morning session, proved she knew
nothing of the crime, declared Judge
Hill.
Judge Hills speech was mastery
plea for Mrs. Bradstreet, shot with
humor as we'll as with pathos: lie re
under the spell of his words for up
wards Of an hour and a half.
Colonel Napier declared that Judge
Hill's main argument was She. is
a woman. Acquit her" He urged
sentiment, but to, steel themselves
to carry out the mission of justice.
He declared it was impossible for
Mrs. Bradstreet to have accepted the
vast sums she did from Green with
burn bank. Colonel Napier dwelt on
Green's extravagant purchases for
Mrs. Bradstreet, the diamonds, the
fur coats, the kimono embroidered
with storks and apple blossome, the
bracelets he himself twined about her
arms.
hikened to Cleopatra
AS Solicitor Napier progressed, he
drove home point after point against
Mrs. Bradstreet. He read telling
passages from the love letters to
Green, avoiding those that were
sheerly sentimental or salacious, but
emphasizing sentences indicating, he
have been cognizant of GREEN'S jug
glery) of the banks funds.
When Judge Hill compared Mrs.
Bradstreet to Mary Magdalen, the
prosecuting attorney likened her to
Cleopatra, who bundled into an
oriental rug, had herself sent to
Caesar and, unfolded, ran to him in
a filmy garment and bought his en-
pire with a kiss.
"They tell you she was an ignor-
ant, innocent little country girl,
gentlemen" said the solicitor. do
these letters sound like innocence?"
When the solicitor ended, it was
even money whether Mrs. Bradstreet
would go free or go to Jail. The long
wrangle Of the jury-four hours save
the effectiveness of his argument.
1t is understood that, On the first
ballot, the jury stood nine for &C
quittal and thre for conviction. The