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Take PRETTYMAN'S WIFE. He Gave Her $2500 Before His Bank Suspended-Can She Keep 17 CHICAGO, ILL., Nov. 29.-Pretty Mrs. Prettyman, whose husband's bank suspended business a week ago, will probably fail to keep the $2500 which be gave her out of the hands of the creditors. A draft for the amount is now on its way to Mrs. Prettyman's mother, Mary 0. Young. having been sent by Mrs. Prettyman yesterday. She received a draft from Metropolitan national bank on the First national bank of New York, but this morning an injunction was issued against the Metropolitan bank restraining it from eashing the draft. Hearing before Judge Prendergrass was continued to-day, and H. H. Bishop, Prettyman's partner in the lumber business, was on the stand. He created a sensation by telling with the most utmost sang froid how he had bought various pieces of real estate with money he had received from W. L. Prettyman, and how shortly before the failure be sold two houses worth $24,000 to Mr. Stinson, treasurer of the North Division lumber company, for a nominal consideration, Stinson at once turning them over to Bishop's wife for like amount.