Word: leas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Public feeling in Buncombe County, N. C., was high against Wallace B. Davis, president of the collapsed (Nov. 20) Central Bank & Trust Co. of Asheville. So a jury from neighboring Haywood County was called in to try him. Co-defendants in the case were famed Col. Luke Lea of Nashville, his son Luke Lea Jr., 23, and Col. Lea's associate E. P. Charlet...
...filled. The shades were drawn and many electric lights gave a dramatic atmosphere to the scene. When the jury came back they gave no verdict, merely asked for further instructions. The defendants grew restless. John Thrash, deputy sheriff, followed the jury out, went to the rest room. Col. Lea thought he had entered the jury room and told him so when he came back. For a moment it looked like a real fight; then Col. Lea settled back into his chair...
That afternoon Judge Barnhill, his pale face grave as the Law, his voice almost a whisper, his hands trembling, read his penalties. Col. Lea's wife gripped her husband's hand so tightly that her knuckles were white. Their daughter, Mary Louise, 7, who had spent the weeks romping through the court room, sat quietly next to him, looking scared. For Col. Lea the Judge ordered imprisonment for from six to ten years. The Colonel paled, then flushed, but his lips were motionless. His wife nearly sobbed. When Luke Lea Jr. heard he had been fined...
...Between Judge Robert Worth Bingham, publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, and James B. Brown, editor & publisher of the Herald-Post. Publisher Brown is president of National Bank of Kentucky which, involved with the Caldwell-Lea crash (see p. 19), was closed along with other local banks. Now to reopen, it promises payment in full...
...Caldwell was in a much worse fix legally than Col. Lea. In the first place he was flat broke. In the second public sentiment was more bitterly arrayed against him. Last week at Nashville he went on trial for fraudulent breach of trust. The charge was that he had substituted inferior securities in his Bank of Tennessee as collateral for county deposits without getting, as agreed, the county's permission for the substitution. Overruled was his plea for a postponement of his trial on the ground that the Horton impeachment case inflamed public opinion against him. Fortnight ago Governor...