The copper era and Morenci leader., 1921-03-25
BATTLE SENTENCED ID SIX MONTHS
 IMPRISONMENT

Mrs J. A. Battle, formerly resident of Clifton, but for the past year re- siding in Duncan, was visitor in Clifton on Wednesday of this week, driving up from Duncan in company with Mrs. Thos. Simpson. After the following article was in type Mrs. Battle called on the ERA and stated that the article appearing in a Tucson paper was, in some respects, eXag- gerated, and said she had no intention of visiting Washington and makins the effort to see President Harding, but that friends of herself and hus- band would intercede with the Pres ident in his behalf and that she was confident in the belief that MT. Battle would succeed in securing a pardon within sixty days. Mrs. Battle alse made the statement that MT. Battle was led to believe that after full res titution of the funds had been made that his punishment would consist of a fine instead of Imprisonment. Mrs. Battle will continue to reside in Dun- can and that it was the intention of Mir Battle to return to Greenlee coun- ty where they will make their future hoi..e among treir many friends.
 Tucson-Mrs J. Allen Battle, pret- ty young wife of a former Duncan bank cashier, who Thursday pleaded guilty before Judge William H. Saw tefle to the charge of embedding funds from the First National bank at Clifton. is preparing for a journey to Washington in the hope of obtain
 
 President Harding. Battle was sentenc- ed yesterday to serve six months in the Yavapai county jail.
 To secure an audience with the president, Mrs. Battle will seek the influence of Carter Glass. former sec retary of the treasury, one of her fathers most intimate friends. and once her Sunday school teacher Mrs. Battle comes from an old and prom inent Virginia family.
 H she succeeds in gaining an aud fence with President Harding she win tell the president that her hus- band took the banks money as the one means available for saving her health and possibly her life.
 She will tell, she says, of worry in the first months of their married life, while her husband was employed as a bookkeper at the Clifton bank, in mak- ing ends meet; and later of the added expense incurred when their baby was borne. It was at this point in the career of her young husband that the doctors informed him that a serious and expensive operation was the only means by which they could hope to restore her health and probably save her life. This news, she will urge upon the president, came simultan- eously with a threatened foreclosure upon their one piece of property, be- cause of his inability to keep up the payments.
 Tempted, her husband admitted that he appropriated from an old Mexican account that had lain dormant in the bank for a number of years S1100. in the belief that he would he able to repay the amount before the embeZZle-' ment was discovered, according to the wite's plea. The money was used. she will say, to pay for the operation which restored her health. and paid for the equity in their real estate. The money was taken in September 1918.
 Several months later, her hus- band left the Clifton bank to accept the position of cashier with banh at Duncan.
 She will tell of the bitterness of the next two years, at the end of which. she says. her husband. laehed by his conscience. went to the officials of the Clifton bank voluntarily made clean breast of tho embezzlement, and paid back all If the money aDDropriaed.
 She will then relate the happiness restored in their home at Duncan, un- til the federal men got wind of the theft-The First Natonal bank at Cliff ton is a member of the federal reserve hank-and placed her husband under arrest
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