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SALE OF BANK STOCKRESULTS IN 2 CHARGES File Complaint Against Edward Mattison and W. F. Lawler. LAWLER GIVES BOND New Braunfels People Buy Stock in South Flores Institution. Complaints charging two San Antonio men with obtaining money under false pretenses in connectio with the salen of stock in a proposed branch bank of New Braunfels of the United States Trust & Saving Bank of San Antonio have been filed before Justice of the Peace Voelcker of New Braunfels. The men charged are Edward Mattison and W. F. Lawler. Lawler has furnished bond in the sum of $500 for his appearance at New Braunfels Wednesday for examining trial. Mattison has not yet been arrested. The complaints are signed by Ernest Herbst, who is said to have bought $200 worth of the stock, and Mrs. Louise A. Alves, who is said to have bought $1000 worth of the stock. The complaints charge that the stock sales were made when the United States Trust & Saving Bank of San Antonio was in bad financil condiation. According to New Braunfels officers, the bank here proposed to establish a branch at New Braunfels and was selling stock to New Braunfels people. Now Under Receivership. The United States Trust & Saving Bank is an institution which has been operating on South Flores street. its affairs first came into prominence on February 22, when James R. Collins, one of the trustees, brought suit in the Forty-fifth District Court for fulfillment of contract and for the appointment of a receiver. Named as defendants in Mr. Collins' suit were Bee Tomerlin. Gus Argy. Ed Mattison. Walter Mitchell and J. H. Moltz. Following the hearing, Judge S. G. Tayloe appointed Graham Dowdell, former member of the San Antonio school board, as temporary receiver and ordered that an inventory of the bank's property be made at once. Say Bank in Sourd Condition. Subsequently the defendants filed an answer to the suit, granting the things prayed for in Mr. Collins' original petition and agreeing that Mr. Collins and Buck West be named as trustees to oprate the institution. All officers at the time the suit was filed asserted that the bank was in sound financial condition and that the court fight was merely to settle a controversy over the control of the institution.
