SAYS NEGRO BANKERS CAUSED FALSE ARREST
GEORGE HARRINGTON SUES OFFICERS OF SOUTHERN BANK FOR DAMAGES.
Attorneys L. C. Hallam and Hamilton & Hamilton yesterday filed suit against the Southern Bank and its officers, L. K. Atwood and P. G. Cooper for the alleged false arrest of George Harrington.
George is a negro boy, and at the time of his arrest was a bellboy at the Royal Hotel. He says that on the tenth day of February, L. K. Atwood and P. G. Cooper caused Officers Polk and Hendricks of the local police force to arrest him without a warrant and carry him to the Southern Bank, where an attempt was made to identify him as the party uttering a forged check on that bank and giving it to two little negroes to have cashed.
George contends that the boys failed to identify him as the party forging the check, but notwithstanding that failure, Atwood and Cooper procured the officers to carry him to the city jail, where he was confined from the 10th until the 14th day of February.
The declaration avers that Harrington was innocent of the charge and that the procuring of his arrest was oppressive to such an extent as to justify him in receiving a judgment against the Southern Bank, P. G. Cooper and L. K. Atwood in the sum of $5,000.