Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-26
FATHER THREATENS
BOGUS OFFICER WHO
MARRIED DAUGHTER

Stirred to action by his pretty
treatment at the hands of Ralph B.
Rule, whom she married six days ago
in Cordele, only to learn Tuesday that
he was a former convict and bogus
army officer, J. T. Bartlett, the father
of the young wife, declared to depart
ment of justice agents Thursday that
he would be waiting for Rule when
he is released from the federal penl-
tertiary to make him pay for his
mistreatment of his daughter.
"He lied to me and to her." SAID
the wealthy Crisp county farmer
who rode all night in his automo-
bile to come to the assistance OF his
heart-broken daughter, land 1 am
going to make him pay"
Mr.. Bartlett returned to ,Cordele
with his daughter Thursday. The
young husband. who was arrested
at the Piedmont hotel Tuesday,
charged with touring the country
and perpetrating frauds while pos
ing as an army officer, is back in
the federal penitentiary. Several
months ago he was paroled from the
prison after he had served a por-
tion of a two year sentence for
stealing government property. After
his arrest Tuesday, federal agents
revoked his parole and sent him
back to the penitentiary.
Rule and Miss Bartlett were mar
ried at the country home of the
Bartlett's near Cordele week ago.
1t is stated he had CORES ded
with the girl for several months,
but had never seen her prior to the
day before their wedding.
\ Representing himself as an army
lieutenant, he won favor with the
girls parents, and they readily gave
their consent. Rule told them he
was on a fifteen-day furlough from
Camp Meade. Maryland; and after
the wedding he brought his bride
to Atlanta to spend the remainder
of his leave of absence.
After registering at the Piedmont
Motel under an assumed name, Rule
left his bride in her room and sought
the acquaintance of other women,
federal agents said. 1t was stated
that he failed to provide money or
food for his wife, and she was prac-
tically famshed when found Tees
day after her husbands arrest.
Rule was arrected after a search
of several. months by agents of the
department of justice. Agents assert
he has toured the country as an Of
ficer, and has cashed scores OF,
fraudulent checks, as we'll as work
ing other bunCo schemes.
1.-THE government is not touching
Rule for all of this" said Mr.. Bart
lett, but l intend to have him nan
died for every bit of it. When he
leaves that prison. L will have him
under, indictment in every place he
has operated his scheme, and if |
have to spend the rest of my life
Furnishing him, I'll do it, for his
treatment of my daughter has got to
be avenged"
The aged farmer is said to have
begged for permission to "go. out to
the prison and yank that chap out
of his cell and beat him until he can't
sit down"
His pretty daughter, although
heartbroken because her first love af-
fair had ended under such circum-
stances, stood by her father in his de-
termination to "even up" with Rule
after he is released from the peni-
tertiary.
Mr. Bartlett said he would visit
every city in which Rule is said to
have defrauded people and obtain all
the evidence possible against him.
He expects to have indictments re-
turned against him long before his
prison term expires, in order that he
may have him met at the prison gate
by officers with "a whole handful of
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