Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-09
KIDNAPPED SISTERS
SEEN IN FLORIDA,
SHERIFF REPORTS
In Bibb Jail on kidnapping
Charge, Graham Will Seek
Immediate Hearing-TeIIs
of Movements

of Movements
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. T.
Mrs. Garrett J. Star, 10, and her
sister, Miss Valeria Lamar, Is, mem
bers of prominent family Of Macon,
Ca, who have been missing several
days and whose disappearance re-
suited in the arrest here Tuesday
night Of H. c. Graham. Detroit in
surance adjuster, on a charge of kid
mapping, were in Fernandina yester.
day but left that city about o'clock
in the afternoon and returned to
Jacksonville, the sheriff's office an
nounced today.
Relatives of the girls and deputies
left here after midnight for Fer.
nandina. forty miles north Of here,
to investigate a report that the
young women had been seen there.
Search for\the girls was unsuccess-
full, but the sheriff's office said it
was definitely established that the
young women, in company with a,
man, had been in Fernandna yester.
day.
Graham, arrested here after q
wide search for him and the girsl
who were believed to be in/his COM
pany. denied he had seen Mrs. Starr
or her sister since August 20, when
he called upon Mrs. Starr in Ma
con. He was taken to Macon late
yesterday by a Bibb county. Ga,
deputy.
GRAHAM DECLARES HE HAS
BEEN GRAVELY WRONGED
MACON. Ca, Sept. Harry c.
Graham, 80, insurance adjuster, of
Detroit, Mich, arrested in Jackson
vile, Fla, Tuesday afternoon under
warrant charging him with kid
naping Mrs. ]. Garnett Starr, 10,
formerly Miss Annie Camille Lamar,
and her 15-year-old sister, Miss Va
leria Lamar, arrived in Macon about
8 o'clock Thursday morning in
custody of Charles E. Roberts, Bib
county deputy sheriff.
The trip from Jacksonville was
made in Graham's automobile and he
was taken to the county Jail upon
his arrival here. ~,
Mrs. Starr and Miss Lamar. who
disappeared from their College street
home on the night Of August 20,
supposedly in company with Ora
ham, have not been located, although
dispatches from Jacksonville, indi-
cate that careful search for them
Is being made in several small towns
near Jacksonville.
Graham in his cell at the county
jail denies any knowledge of the
whereabouts Of the two girls, and
relates without any reluctance de.
tailed account of his movements
since leaving Macon on the night
Of August 20. His eyes became a
little moist, however, when he re-
marked that his wife wife, Mrs. Eva
Graham, now stopping at the Marion
hotel in Atlanta. expects to file suit
for divorce against him, naming
Mrs. Starr.
Graham was arrested in the Mason
hotel in Jacksonville when he called
70 his room key late Tuesday after.
noon, and without allowing him to go
to his room he said, the hotel man
agement permitted detectives there
to search through his personal eff
fects. In this way, said Graham,
they ascertained his business con-
nections, which were published in
the Jacksonville papers. That's
going to cost me good job" said
Graham, lone that it has taken me
fifteen years to get"
Wants Immediate Hearing
After a short nap at the Jail early
Thursday morning, Graham said he
felt refreshed after the automobile
journey from Jacksonville. He en-
gagged Wallace Miller, attorney, to
represent him, and early Thursday
morning it was their plan to, de-
mand an immediate hearing in
municipal court. II don't want any
bond" said Graham, II can account
for my actions, and want vindica.
ton Of this CHARGE"
1 was in Macon about six days."
said Graham, relating his side OF
the case. and while I was there I
called on about 100 business men
whom I had to interview. Before
leaving Atlanta, I met a travelling
man friend, who gave me Miss
Camille Lamar's telephone number,
and told me to call her up. Be,
fore this, though, I hadn't ever
heard of the girl.
when I got to Macon I called her
on the telephone, and told her I'd
like to meet her downtown. She
agreed, and during the afternoon /
met her. We went about the city
all the afternoon, and late in the
afternoon 1 took her home, and
there l was formally introduced to
her grandmother, Mrs. Jack Lamar,
and her little sister, Miss Valeria
We talked little while, and I left.
II saw Miss Camille a few other
times, and on Tuesday afternoon
the afternoon before the two girls
disappeared from home), she called
me at the Dempsey hotel, where 1
vas stopping, saying she was down.
town and wanted to see me. I told
her all right, and short time later
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