Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-08
MORE WARRANTS
ARE ISSUED FOR
FA|RbURN BANKER

FAIRBURN, Ca, July War
rants charging forgery and larceny
after trust were sworn out here to.
day against H. w. Cook, banker and
wealthy landowner who returned to
his home here Sunday after having
been missing since June II, when,
according to a warrant sworn out by
, a tenant on one of his farms, he de-
parted from Pyrone, a small rail
way station in Campbell county, in
company with the farmers 17-year-
old daughter. Kidnapping was
charged in this warrant.
Today's warrants were taken out
by Judge J. w. Parker before
Homer McDanial, acting city judge,
and it was said that they would be
put into the hands Of Sheriff G. f.
Jenkins at once. 1t was claimed
| that Cook forged the name of w. c..
Cook, his brother living in Fayette
county, to a note in June, 1928. The
larceny after trust was said to have
taken place in January, 1928
Father Criticizes Sheriff
The father Of the girl whom Cook
is charged with kidnapping, stated to-
day that he would go to Atlanta
| Tuesday to confer with department
of justice agents and put the case
| into their hands. He planned then
| to see Claud Smith, solicitor general
| Of the Stone Mountain circuit, and
complain of the failure Of authorities
! of this county to arrest Cook. He
criticized the sheriff severely for not
arresting Cook wnen he returned
home Sunday. He went to Fair
burn Monday to confer with his at
torney, w. i. Suttles. No word has
/ been received from the girl, and her
! father said that he had no idea of
her whereabouts
Sheriff Jenkins asked concerning
the case. said: II have nothing to say
to the papers. ! am too busy attend.
| ing TO my own affairs to talk about
anything"
hair and shaved off his mustache
lately, is 81 years old and has wife
and five children, all grown.
The girls father, who has thirteen
children, expressed the opinion Mon
day that Cook had disappeared again.
1t was reported in Fairburn this
morning that Sheriff Jenkins plan.
ned to arrest Cook when he ap-
1 no Of ;,~Io,
Cooks son-in-law, Harry Jones, haV-
ing requested the officer not to
make the arrest at the home. Cook
having returned voluntarily after a
long search had been made for him
it was presumed that there would be
no difficulty about his apprehension
No arrest had been made up to noon,
however, and relatives of Cook said
that he had gone to Atlanta
Wide Search for Cook
A wide search, especially through
out the west, has been made fol
Cook during the past few weeks, il
was said here. The kidnap warrant
was issued by Judge J. Wilson Park
er shortly after Cook left home
J;ne II. 1t was clG,med ~ the
girl met Cook at Pyrone, and that
the two boarded a weStbound train
! l. was OF known here today wheth
err the girl named in the warrant
had yet returned to her home
Two post cards, signed with
Cooks name and postmarked Den
yer, Colo, and received by a Fair
burn citizen, constituted the only in
formation )cCncerning the bankers
whereabouts until Saturday nigh;
when it is said that his family re
ceived a telegram from him in Biz
minghani.
Cook was a director of the Bank OF
Campbell county, which failed some
time ago. and has estate, valued al
$3.50 900, was placed in the hands Of
J. IL McClurs. of Fairhurn, soor