Aged Negro Testifies That Life Earnings Gone in Failure of Wilmington Bank, Feb. 13, 1924

State Rests Case in Cooper Trial. . . Aged Negro Testifies That She Had Placed Her Life’s Earnings in the Bank So She Would Not Have to Worry Now That Her Best Days Were Gone

Wilmington, Feb. 12—Declaring that he considered the bank solvent a short time before it was closed, and that he believed it would still be in operation today, but for the interference of Government officials, brought a climax in today’s testimony of Chas. E. Cooper in the trial in which he and his brother are charged with conspiracy in connection with the failure of the Commercial National Bank of Wilmington.

District Attorney Irvin B. Tucker rested the case for the Government at 3:45 o’clock this afternoon, on the eighth day of the trial in Federal District court after giving before the (rest of story was missing)….

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1924