Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-12


the Deadly Poison and Ended His TaiIspin.
reversed it. nor was this ever retired
James was safe from the law, but though
the jury had not convicted him. neither had
1t said he was innocent.
In hundreds of homes little, unofficial
juries tried the case over again and from
the way many treated him, James suspected
he knew what the verdict was His popularity
vanished and with it his easy charm.
Still his job and future at the bank were
safe-or were they?
The hostility spread to all the family No
body exactly blamed father IL he spent his
last cent to save a son from prison, but had
he also spent money that wasn't his? In six
months the hale and hearty father had aged
ten years and become almost paralyzed by
a strange nervous affliction Of his legs. A
cracker-barrel psychiatrist said:
Maybe it is a suppressed desire to run
away. They ought to go over the banks
accounts with fine tooth comb"
The next time the bank examiners came
President Crabb resigned and the stunned
community learned that, sure enough, short
age had been found!
The trial had caught the old man UMPIRE
pared for such a financial strain and he had
simply embezzled what he needed. He made
such restitution he could, turning over his
residence, farm lands. everything but it did
not save him from standing trial.
Having turned over every assert he had
there was no way of raising the $4,000 bail
required for his liberty before the trial
Loyalty to his rescue came the first, di-
vorced wife Elizabeth, furnishing the bond
and standing by her former husband all
he he wifi fuCx loo
but all she could offer sympathy. The
old banker put in no defense. ruined in wealth,
health and honor, he took his medicine as II
not caring whether the sentence was four
years or life. 1t was like dead man talking
when he spoke his last words to James
"All this was done for you. Son. See that
you make something out of yourself"
James promised that he would, and then
discovered that it was practically impossible
for an embeZzler's son to get job in bank
The only trade he knew was handling other
peoples money and no people wanted him to
handle theirs. He looked for other work
where he would not need to be trusted but
somehow the general hostility seemed to all
ways Illustrate him. Though not everyone be-
lieved that he had killed his bride they were
almost unanimous and blaming him for his
fathers ruin
with each passing month. he took hope again
when the Government started its national de-
Tense program.
He made application to become an aviator
His health none too good but the doctors
believed that proper nourishment would soon
correct that TSen came the crushing blow
He was turned down because that perjury
charge had never been disposed Of
That was the last straw
He would join the great army of the dead
where everybody is accepted and he would
not wait to be drafted.
And so a shabbily dressed man registered
at Detroit hotel as James w Hall and re-
NAMED quietly in his room Next morning
when the chambermaid unlocked his door and
saw him with two little empty bottles, he was
too quiet. -.
The ambulance doctor found a spark of
life and though they famed 1t for hours at
the hospital, 1t finally went out His true
identity was discovered in the notice that he
had been turned down as an Army flier.
Also the police found in hts pockets eight
cents, all that was left Of his great expecta-
tons.