The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-29
DECLARES HE SOLD . BONDS FOR BANKER
Memphis Stolen Bond Trial Well Under Way, Though
 Testimony Delayed
By Associated Press

Memphis, April 2s.-Maurice B. Joseph, Memphis jeweler one of the six men under indictment in connection with the alleged marketing here of part of the $466,o0o in Liberty bonds, obtained in the hold-up of a brokers messenger in Brooklyn last November, testified today that he disposed of a block of s65, 900 of the bonds for w. l.. Huntley. Jr, Memphis banker, through the local brokerage firm of Priddy Williams Company, that he re- ceived checks totaling $54,461 for the bonds and that he turned over the en- tire amount to Huntley.
 Joseph was called as a witness for the state in the trial of Huntley and H. Diggs Nolen, the first of the six men to be placed on trial. All are charged with receiving solen property. S. D. Bates county attorney general an nounced he would recommend that the charges against Joseph be dismissed.
 R. E. Priddy of the Priddy Williams company, J. E. Mccall, a lawyer, and James M. Vardaman, a bank empIoye. are the other men under indictment Their trials were set today for next week.
 L. H. Wyckoff, an employe of the Union and Planters bank of this city who followed Joseph on the stand identified check for $57.90750 given the Priddy Williams company for the bonds. Wyckoff testified that the bonds were handled by his bank as any simi- lar transaction would have been and later sent to the Chicago correspondent of the bank. It was after the bonds were forwarded to New York to be exchanged for securities of smaller de- nomination that they were identified as part of those listed as stolen.
 Joseph said Huntley told him he was acting for man named Ben E. Ander- son in disposing of the bonds Joseph denied he received commission and de- clared his only purpose in handling the parer was to accommodate Huntley. Austin E. Young, an employe of the Brooklyn brokerage firm of Kean, Tay- Tor & Co.,, another witness today told of the Brooklyn robbery. He declared he and another man were set upon by six men beaten and robbed of the bonds which they were on their way to deliver 10 the office of Igo Brothers in Brook lyn.
 Presentation of testimony was delayed by argument of a motion by the defense seeking the dismissal of the indictments on the contention that they contained conflicting statements as to the owner ship of the bonds. The motion was over ruled
 Miss Goldie Talley. the nurse who at tended Diggs Noien at the hospital, after he had been shot by his wife, testified to having called Huntley several times for Nolen during the time the latter was at the hospital.
 When w. T. Griffin, police inspector, was called to the stand, the jury was excused while counsel for the defense griiied the police officer charging him with using third degree methods in obtaining the. statement of his connec- ton with the sale of the bonds. which the state expects to enter as evidence. These charges were all denied by Griffin, who was withdrawn from the stand un- til tomorrow when the state will endeavor to prove that the bonds sold here are the same as those stolen in the Brooklyn hold-up. Witnesses are now on the way from Chicago. whcm the state depends on for an Identification of the bonds,