Crimes of the South

By Herman David Battles

My name is David, and I lived every day to the fullest.

Always with colorful friends around, he soon found out that the thieves and robbers were the most exciting people to be around. Partying and making money was his game. These are the stories he told and the rest he would take to his grave.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524571030

Herman David Battles

Herman David Battles was born in Trion, a small town in North Georgia. He has lived in many cities and calls Port Saint Lucie, Florida, home now. He has experienced a lot of what he has written. He is the author of two new books: Crimes of the South and Flip This House.

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Copyright © 2017 by Herman David Battles.

ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-5245-7104-7

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Contents

Acknowledgment

Chapter I Eddie and the Bank Robbers

Chapter II Diamond Dean Swinging Doors of the Jurisdiction System

Chapter III Richard B The Reporter

Chapter IV Dave H.

Chapter V The Robinhood of Drug World By David Battles

Chapter VI Confession of A Murderer Ray & David B.

Chapter VII Tom the Con Artist

Chapter VIII Columbia Mafia

Acknowledgement

Acknowledgment

The author wishes to acknowledge the names used in these stories are fake and fiction.

I want to thank Charlie Miles for rewriting some of the chapters and for keeping me sane in the process.

A special thanks to my sisters Brenda and Charlotte whom I will always love.

Eddie

and the

Bank Robbers

Chapter I

Eddie

I met Eddie in the last part of the 1960s. He was dating my youngest sister. She seemed to be happy with him and he loved her. They had bought a house in the Stone Mountain area. They owned a club in Brookhaven, Georgia. It was an American Legion. I was spending a lot of time with Eddie and found out he was more than a bartender. He told me that he had a gang he had put together. They robbed banks for a living. And if the money ran out between bank jobs, they would rob a grocery store. He called the money from the grocery stores weekend money. He said my sister would go in the store shopping and be in the checkout line at a certain time. Eddie would come in and go to the store manager and make him open the safe. There would be four robbers. My sister would be at the car with the trunk open when they came out of the store. They would put the money, masks, and guns in her trunk and jump in their cars. If there were four of them, it would be two of them in the two cars; they would leave in different directions. The system worked great!

Eddie told me about a lot of the crooked judges and lawyers he knew. He told me if I ever got into trouble to call him as soon as I could. It wasn’t long until I had to take him up on his offer. I borrowed a car from Eddie to take my aunt to see her sister who lived in Dalton, Georgia. It was night before we headed home. I wanted to get home as quick as I could. I was running about a hundred miles per hour on Interstate 75 and came over a hill and seen the highway patrolmen. I tried to slow down, but he had already clocked me. He stopped me and asked me to follow him to the jailhouse. I was thinking about a charge I had in Atlanta, then I remembered what Eddie had told me about calling him if I ran into trouble. When we got to the station, I asked if I could use the phone and was given permission. I called Eddie and told him about the trouble I was in, and he told me to give him a few minutes. I didn’t realize I was going to get a lesson about law manipulation! It took almost an hour before the officer brought my license and told me to slow down. At the time I really didn’t understand what was going on. When I got to Atlanta I called Eddie and