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At tha conclusion of Mr. Beverly's ' direct and cm* exaipinstion, eouneei I for defense n-erred to exclude all of It, but the Court withheld ruling an- • til further investigation. ' Mr. Milee Cowart, stockholder and i director in Af flank of Omega, wae • introduced to ehow tie manner of numbering time certificates The defenae objectad but wnimrt euetnin- ed. Right to racall wae reaerred by tic defense. V- Mr. Bush was recalled, but at the i first question, Mr. Yeomans object- ' ed and another long argument eneu- i ed. the Court making t$e seme rul- I ing aa in the Beverly objection. The State ahowed by this witness . that he was familiar with the meth- i ods of the Bank of Omega, and was acquainted with fee ryetem of book- i keeping employed by Ragsdale. Wit ness went carefully over the books but failed to 8nd any entry covering the Beverly item of 1247.32. He explained the entry system to the jury, end the usee of the ledger, counter book, etc Cross examined the defense eought to show that others had access to tho book?, the inference being that if changes had been made or rec ords were not correct, the fact could not properly be charged to Kegs dale Other witnesses called by the pros ecution were S. A. Dodson. Frank Powell and his brother, J W. Pow ell. Their evidence ahowed that Defease Scan, ea Aadlt. In calling L. R. Adams, assistant secretary of the Bankers’ Trust Company, the State introduced one of iu strongest witnesses. Hie tes timony was attacked at every s*ep by the defense, which scored heavily when the Court refuted to allow the admission of an audit made up part ly from lha records end partly from extraneous sources. “What connection did yoo bars with the audit of tha books of the Bank of Omega?" asked Mr. Smith. “I dictated that auditing.” "Do you know that that record is Mothers Know Genuine Cast Always i Bears the f Signature/jL aSSboE-TSSowT “““■l'B'SS£ With PERUNA they had gone Bret to Memphis end than to 9t. Lpula, in which city they remained fer nearly one moath. Ragsdale. or'Bugton as the witness knew dm, then disappeared. In telling this balance of her story. Mr? PemMBurbon-RagedsJe #>- peered to bo slightly distressed par- tieularly when detailing her desertion 1» St. Louis by defendant followed alWrtly by the discovery that he had 1 a Wife living in Georgia. Choas examined by Attorney Yeo mans, witness said when she diaeover- ed her plight she wired he Meson ic lodge in Hot Springs, giving the nuagsr of Burton's lodge. later “I do." '•What eras the shortage shown?" "Above $25,000." "How wae this audit made?" "From the books of the bank and from depositors and patrons of the bank." Defense vigorously protested against the admission of the audit, on the ground that it *as exparts ft ret, and was largely made up Of extraneous information During ar gument of counsel, the Jury was withdrawn. The Court held that the portion of the audit obtained from depositors and others should not be admitted The balance of Mr Adkins' testi mony was fought at every stop by the defense, and twie the Court was compelled to admonish attorneys on Goth aides. A helpfularmsdytr ConstlpaUon andDUtrto* and Fcvcrktaws* “ LossorSLBZP ,re3alUn«Wadl— i rncsiisdc Tut Cr*TM.-*Ga*r«n jS^YORK^ Mrs. Georgia Moore, oly grilled by th« urse of which Mr ed that proper followed. In e> went down. We had 900 bales and I til *• o. m. we got to the place ashore we had 1 **»srdar d|ar> to have money and we Anally plac- When court convened t rd it with the Brown-Cramer poo- | was announced that ca<£ pie on cadi. They held to it but the i be allowed two and a ha next apnng we had to dispose of it argument. T, st a loss. One man was out $4,500 | Attorney Wlikinaon 'i and went -into bankruptcy; another 'the defense, followed I was out $2,500, and when 1 called j Ridgdill for the Stats, At upon him for (more collateral ho mans for the defense as said h>- was all in." Smith for the prosecutlo Witness told how he persuaded Fulwood made the elosin some of the directors to take out for the defense, life insurance as a protection to the The case was given tJ bank and talks he had with the dfrec- 8 p. m. Saturday and" 1 tors about the situation. ter. or at midnight, »- “They said there was s law cover- reached, ing that and that the cashier .responsible. I considered for a the situation they had placed n and then I undertook to make they could W. F. Peters, of Feofe. v - the visitors to TifU» gate Attorney Yeomans rd a letter, said to ha by Mrs. Burton to defense closed and the ■ddreasrd the jury to the cf- t it would admit all the tee- relating to Beverly. Dodson to a question of Attorney Smith. It was .brought out by the prose cution that Jhe amount of cash on band December 31, 1915, as found by tbs witness to havs-been $1,938.- 32. exclusivs of the transactions of that day. An effort to show tha procedure on the following, day in the matter of opening the bank vault, the counting of funds on hand at that time, and the part the srttneas play ed In these endeavor?, brought on a sharp tilt between defendant's coun sel and Attt^ney Smith, tha court ruling in favor of tha later. ell the sum involved was about $700 while Mr Dodson's transactions cov ered $1,500 deposited and a check for $488.54. which the witness did not believe he had drawn J W Powell had deposited *53 with -Rags- dale at the Bank'ot Omega and took up a note for a like amount drawn to the order of his brother. Frank Powell said ha never got this amount —$63. H. F. Brown, cashier of the South em Express Company, at Valdosta, testified that during December,, 1915. foyr packages had been shipped by the First National Bank of Valdosta to Omega', and John R Slatar, of the Firit National Bank of Valdosta testified to having aided in the wrapping and shipping of certain money to the Omega bank during December. W A Hlneasan. agent of the Southern Express Company gave similar testimony. Mr. M. E. Hepdry. cashier of the National Bank of Tifton, told of the shipment of $1,000 to tho Bank of Omega, at the request of the First National Bank of Valdosta. Court overruled objections of de- "Did yog gat your thousand dol lars on that trip?” "No, sir." "You wanted tho thousand didn't job!" ., •'Yea, sir." Attorney Smith kttarrupted to aa): the witness if she <M not feel Aa was entitled to the money? “Oh, yea, air.” "Was it because you were mar ried to him that you felt you were entitled to the money, (hat he owed you*, something for the humiliation be hid caused you*" f “Yea; that was H." ' The marriare .certificate was of fered ia evidence and a heated dis cussion followed between attorneys Smith and Yoomana- The case proceeded with the | proffer of the letter, written by Mrs. Dertea — abidance- The next OF ' slant, however, it was withdrawn. Counsel tor defense then moved to strike all the evidence of Mrs. Bur- 1 ton from the records. There was s heated argument and the motion de fied. . ' -'J.' R. Beverly was called by the 1 State. He said be knew Ragsdale, and had business dealings with kirn and the bank. Witness identified ] a deposit slip as one given' him by Ragmtle, and under objection from the defense told of withdrawing 1318 from the National Bank of Tifton and placing a cashier’s check 1 for that amount with the Bank of , Omega. There was objection from counsel for defense on the ground that the indictmeat called for money and not a check, which was not proof of embetilement. The jury was taken to an ante room wfcQe counsel argued the matter, the Court finally deter mining that such evidence should go in bat would be expunged from the record it the Court’* investigation nf the authorities seemed to,warrant it. this forceful manner tgidale, former cashier if Omega, and charged :ern with embexxle- WUl Mrs. Burton Says. Resenting to the limit of her omen’a capacity tho open dsnua- iciation of H. E. Ragsdale, the man- and she claims to have married la Hot make good I opened a j Springs a year ago under the mm* t and headed the ac- of Alfred Clifford Burton, that A» « two large overdrafts- lied when she swore he had taka* cotton margins to this her to srlfe, Mrs. Anna Parry-Bats* ny cotton operations has pledged herself to the miaaina ot ere measurably successful j bringing to Ragsdale the homOMIMr "“In the meantime, I discovered a ^nd grief which Aa declares is her mitage in ‘he bills receivable sc-1 portion aa the result of her brief av aunt. I didn't know where tbs pa- liance with the former cashier, m were so I took the profits of the | “There is a low In Artrsnag itton account and passed t* to the against bigamy: Georgia has the ills receivable. There came a cheek same law and it is an extraditable ir *3,5(10 and another for *2.600 offense. It^is my purpose to proceed told a director of this and he said imedlately under tha leer* of Wf ^as good work and hoped I would state for a divorce, and regardlean- npliealed the direc- if Omega and made her in ilot Spring? question from either or defense. Calmly Mr Rsgsds wholly impassive connection with and his bankm could be heard It 9 o'clock Attorney R. D. Smith I that owing to the absence of the te Agent of the Pacific Mutual s Company., ‘hy whom he expect- to prove a section of the indict- ,t involving *2.600. ho Aiuld ask Court to mdjobrn until Saturday , Saturday Morning. Vben the State resumed Satur morning at 8:30 the Cburt stut- thet M. E Hendry. caAicr of National Bank of .Tifton, desired unend his testimony as given last "This cotton pool included one di- etor sad his brother. But this di- ctor. Patrick, got scared and quit, ihnson also got scared and turned s account over. It riasn't long af- r thia that Bush cams doem." Mr Ragsdale went carefully Into r visit of the bank examiner with penal reference to turning over e accounts and cash for counting Rapidly th< ght came I locked the nt off I had seen things day which looked ai though tbr - me up. But through the but was delivered to L. V. upon the written order uf Kag Counsel for defense steer objected to the-admisaion of t timony. and there followed n cornered wrangle, with Atl Yeomans and Fulwooil on or and Attqjncy .Smith :hc other Court sharply ended the eonti with *!>* remark that counsel Defendant's counsel, with the I eiew of fixing the ability of witness BpA, ran him through his hanking experience and in the process drew •y declare the writing to he it of Ragsdale. One of those tors, written on stationery *Y Louvain hotel. Kansas City, reads (Continued on psge 7) *— ~ PURE BLOOD talr.ed. '•You were in Aa bank Monday night?" (he witness was naked. * “Yes. air." “Who came out ftrat?" •*I don't know; am hot sure; it CAN'T FIND ANY * DANDRUFF, AND HAflT “ STOPS COMING. OUT. credit of the shortage. Mr. Rags dale Showed the jurir. 0i« entry in the nook covering this item. Mr Rags dale went carefully into the time certificate slips issued by him and stated that he bad entered them on the individual ledger under the ac count of time certificates. Mr Ragsdale said he had no rec- nllmlon -of the *750 Powell certifi cate, but he did know that he Lad not receied the money. "Everybody in Omega knew I was dealing in cotton for the bank t-Jd tbe directors knew ti. As long as n I was a good fel-. it went the other way | r thing. I frankly .ad-j if the bank wore in a I ievq I could have tak- i the books of the bank as-1 left cm and satisfied every depositor." The witness indulged in a long, .use, and then sold clearly and dis? icily: % "About the woman. There nevar *.« a bigger lie perpetrated in tbe orld. I never saw her until Ac ime to my home in Banks county st summer and tried to get money the books, documents and papers of the Bank of Omega .in evidence Ob jection by defense to admisaion wa- | overruled. One of the star witness* of the' State turned up in Mr. E. A. Dea ton. state agent for the Pacific Mu tual Life Insurance Cumpany. ltd told of correspondence with Rag-, dale and of a visit to Omega at which time Ragsdale secured s promise tha: witness' company would place a de- Try as you will, after anapplica- tion of Danderine, you| ea not find a single trace of dandruff or TfflffiT hair and your scalp will not itah, but what will please you moat, will b« after a few week's uie, when you see new hair, fine and dowry ml first—yes—but really new hair- growing all over your scalp., 4 ' A little Danderine ^immediately I doublet Ac beauty of your hair. Me 1 difference how duQ, faded, ‘lard scraggy, just moisten t'IS 'vith I'anilerino and carefully 99 ; it through the hair, taking onajMM , strand nt a time. The effoc^P^ . mediate and tmaxing—ktAdj lie light., fluffy and appearance of shaigU m incomparable lustre, sottMlHjflj all Impurities. Kidneys awl i the “I charge, yoar honor." exclaimed j tot Attorney Smith, “Aat counsel is no* lied, examining witness in good faiA." j>t B Mr. Yeomans deplored counsel's .oped statenter: as untrue-, the Court fcuk- down inf occasion to express his disbelief pcing of any such intention, k. X "WltneM- wos excused and counsel nd X for defense then moved that there s. I be Stricken from Ae record Ast por- |oqg (ion of i(r. Bush's trstinony regard it of ing Ae amount of money found in low But.whi 1 was the at mit the book T7VDR stiff tore muscles apply f’ Sloan's Lintmcnl to the pain or ache, it quickly penetrtUs and soothes •ruitkoui rubbing. Orlando. FI*.— dvocato uf .Ur." Hseovery. It c dll t»u years i ha tr./rrt form n TtMrntly and ton and. wheat speculation. "Ragsdale told me he made *10. 000 the.year before, and that the secret of hi* success was that oA*-- pcople bought on a rising marke' whereas he caught it on Ae decline." Counsel for defense moved A ex clude all the stock gambling trans actions as irrelevant, but Ae Court Aoujrht Arm very relevant, sinee it had a direct bearing on the character of die accused. U wuuld' terminate In i many o( my symptom- p 1 bad a severe sure Ar-. wUh rattling In mr b I wa? also troubled w ralgla In mr face- In this, my gena-ral health I was run-duwn, all tir the least ambition, and uf a.-IgbL I had t*l Get a 25-ccnt bottle of E] An's Danderine from any drug! or toUet coanter, Aid proto’ your hair ir aa pretty and ml any—Aat it has been naglaaU injured by careless treatment. 25-cent bottle wnfrdouble tha 1 ty of your heir. In concluding his statement. Mr. {him only *666. every penny [was his personal money. I At 12:1b cburt took a w '|oo Drops] Sloan’s Liniment K/LLS PA in