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THE CASE AGAINST MRS.
THE CASE AGAINST MRS. MARGARET ROBERTS. Mrs Margaret Frances Roberts, having pleaded guilty to all the charges made against her was, at the conclusion of the case against Mrs Parry, asked by the Clerk of the Court to state whether she had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon her. Mr Trevor Parkins said that the, prisoner had been for a considerable time assistant at the Rhuddlan post office, and was one of the nieces of Mr Evans, the late sub-postmaster During the course of something like ten years a great number of crimes had been committed at the Rhuddlan post office. She had pleaded guilty to two of the indictments. The charges against her included torging notices of with- drawal and warrants, and the frauds had been carried out in a very ingenious manner. In the case of a depositor named Louisa Williams the withdrawals were entered in the depositor's book, and so the book went up to London and was found to correspond with the account at the post office. When the book was returned to Rhuddlan the contents were torn out and fresh contents were inserted in which the with- drawals were not entered. With regard to deposits, the course pursued was this. In the case of Harriet Louisa Williams there wad a bogus book made out in the name of Louie Williams in which certain deposits were made, and when the acknowledgements came from London they were intercepted at the post office and altered so as to correspond with Harriet Louisa Williams' book both with regard to the number, name and address. That was the course pursued by Mrs Roberts in this and in other cases. He had to point out to his Lord- ship that the amount of money appropriated altogether at the Rhuddlan post office was about JE324. No imputation was made against the honesty of the late sub-postmastee He appeared to have placed too much confidence in the prisoner, who seemed to have exercised a terrible infiuenceover the otter prisoner and was indicted with Garner for other offences. She herself bad been removed from her position in the post office in January, 1901, and after she had left she got the documents filled up by other people, sometimes by the prisoner Garner who had yet to be tried. One of the charges against the prisoner was that she bad obtained a savings bank deposit book by false pretences from Miss Gwendoline Garner, the sister of the prisoner Garner, this book being required by her to make certain bogus entries. The amount of the defalcations were extremely large and extended over a considerable time, and had been committed with great deliberation and very considerable ingenuity. Mr Ellis Jones Griffith said he could not hide from himself, and it would be idle to endeavour to conceal from his Lordship that the prisoner had pleaded guilty to very serious and grave offences which had been going on for some time. The indictments to which she had pleaded guilty covered the period of the last three years, and there was no doubt that during the last three years that at her instance and really by her work and under her control very grave irregularities bad been going on in that little sub-post office at Rhuddlan. He need not remind his Lordship of the agony of fear the prisoner was suffering during the last three years of being found out. She had be»!I pressed by him and by those who had instruc- ted him in this matter as to what had become of this considerable sum of money. But she persisted in saying that the money was not spent upon any personal extravagance or in- dulgence in any spend thrif habits of her own. be said that all the money went to the pos office till. The post office accounts would not balance, ard these great frauds had been really committed in order to balance the accounts That was her explanation, and he mentioned it to his Lordship as he was instructed He thought he was right in saying that as far as anyone knew the prisoner had not been guilty of indulging in expensive tastes or anything of that kind She had oaly lived the life she was accustomed to live in that little place She was married to a gentleman who was well con- nected in his sphere of life, and bad three children, one being twelve years of age, one ten, and the other eight. Of course, whatever view his Lordship took, not only would it affect both directly and indirectly the prisoner but also upon her husband and her children There was this much to be said fot her, that the momeut the frauds were found out she put no difficulty in the way, and that day she had pleaded guilty to the serious offences with which she was charged. Prisoner's health, he might mention, was far from satisfactory. She was suffering from an internal complaint which might turn out to be of an aggravated charac- ter- His friend had repeated once or twice the largeness of the sum that had disappeared u from the post office. He had set Mr Evans free in the matter so far as he was personally concerned, but that he bad put too much trust; in the prisoner Roberts. His Lordship would be glad to know that full reparation had been made. and that all the money that had been lost, amounting to 2324, had been made good by Mr Evans. Although he was a poor man he had out of his own pocket paid every penny of the sum that was missing. Of course that did not atone for the very great wrong which the prisoner had done. He merely ment oned it so that it might be known that the post OffiCE as a public depHrtm^-nt and the members of he public bad lost nothing by the frauds. Having regard to these circumstances he ventured c ask his Lordship to take 8.11 lenient a view of the conduct of the prisoner as he considered was consistent with his duty. The Judge asked if it was correct that all the money bad been pud Mr Tievor Purkinn said it was perfecily true. The sub-postmaster's own money bad been taken, and that showed how completely nnccwnt be was of any participation in the rauds. The Judge said he would pass sentence in the morning, and the prisoner, who bad been crying bitterly during the addresses was rt-mov- ed in custody. SENTENCE OX MRS. ROBERTS. On Wednesday morning Mrs. Roberts. came up for sentence. His Lordship said prisoner's case was a very serious one. She had com- mitted a long series of depredations upon the Post Office, under which department she had held a position of considerable trust; and only had she broken the trust, but young women coming under her influence had been exposed to great temptations. The young woman he had just sentenced had been led into crime through her, and he could not do otherwise than pass upon her a very severe sentence. She would have to go into penal servitude for three years. Prisoner, who appeared to receive her sen- tence with comparative composure, was immed- iately taken below. I
THE ARMENIAN MURDER.
THE ARMENIAN MURDER. AN ARREST IN AMERICA. The first arrest in connection with the murder of the Armenian Sagouni at Xunhead has been made in America. Scotland Yard in the course of their inquiries quickly suspected that communications were passing, and had boon passing, between England and America over the Sagouni affair. They also discovered that two or three Alrarists had recently been living in Perkham in a house close to Nunhead-grove, where Sagouni had lodgings. As a result of their information an Armenian named Krikorian was arrested upon his arrival at Boston, upon the Cunardor Ivernia. The Ivernia had sailed nearly a week before the murder, so that the only possible charge agninst Krikorian -s that of being accessory bel'ore the fact. It appears that Krikorian was one of the Alfarists who have been living at Peckham. Two other members of the same society (Shafiriiiiiii and Arzonian) lived with bim. They have now disappeared. Vahtan Krikorian emphatically asserts his innocence of complicity in the murder of Sagatiel Sagouni, the Armenian revolutionist. After the preliminary examinations before the magistrate, Krikorian said: "I came to America to study at Harvard College. I knew Sagouni in London, and attended meetings of the revolutionary societies there before leaving, but I never belonged to any secret society. I have lived in London for the last three years, occupying my time in journalistic work. I am a correspondent of Constantinople papers, and am to send them articles on American customs. I don't know about any scheme to assassinate Turkish rulers." Krikorian, according to a New York correspond- ent, was badly frightened, and was on the verge of collapse during the examination. A noise being heard in the course of the hearing, the prisoner shrieked excitedly and crouched in a corner of the room, his action giving the impression that he fears assassination. Developments are expected on the arrival of Scotland Yard evidence. FUNERAL OF M. SAGOUNI. The remains of M. Sagouni were on Saturday buried in Camberwell Cemetery, Forest hill. Enclosed in a plain coffin with brass mountings, they were taken in a hearse from Camberwell Mortuary to the headquarters of the Huntchakist Society, 85, Peckham Rye. A large crowd, many of them Armenians, had assembled outside the and when the hearse arrived an Armenian priest, the Rev. Theodore Isaac, wearing a black silk gown and velvet cap, performed the ceremony of blessing the body. Followed by three mourning coaches and an immense crowd, the hearse was then taken to Forest Hill. At the cemetery gates a large number of people were in waiting, and there was much unseemly pushing and crowding. The coffin was taken to the mortuary chapel, which was quickly overcrowded, and it was with difficulty that the attendants succeeded in closing the doors against people who sought to force their way into the buildings. The service in the chapel occupied about twenty-five minutes, and the coffin was then carried to the grave, where the Rev. Theodore Isaac thanked the people for their sympathy, and the chaplain of the cemetery read a portion of the Burial Service. The hymn "Rock of Ages" was sung and the Benediction pronounced, and short addresses were delivered in Armenian by some of M. Sagouni s friends. There will always be a debatable ground as to whether, in respect of what, has happened, we might not have known better; but, in our thankfulness that we know better now, we can afford to leave that unsettled. Our enemies do us little vital harm in speaking evil of us, for the friendship that crumbles under the lash of an evil tongue is best put away as good riddance of bad rubbish, with thanks to those who unconsciously saved us from lavishing the best in us on an unworthy object. WHY LOOK OV THE WRONG SIDE ? The effect of the mind and imagination upon the body is important. The mind that is diseased is sure to corrupt the body. Mind disease is not always idiocy or weakness of the mental powers. Neither does it confine itself to a disordered imagination, which creates visions and sights that corrupt the mind and morals-. There is something more general and insidious than either of these, and because it is not classed as a sin or inherited weakness it passes without special condemnation. One will call this mind complaint the habit of worrying or looking on the wrong side of every- thing. Such a mind will find occasion to worry or complain because matters have not gone just right in the household. A thousand and one things will be magnified out of their true proportions to cause worn and discontent. A mind thus upset and WOI k-i Dg in a narrow groove reacts upon the body as surely as that of poor diet or unsanitary surround- ings. The effect is most noti^rable upon the face, where in time every trace of inherited or acquired beauty may disappear. PERSONALITY'S POWER. "Personality," as it is called, is a thing apart; a light, that cannot be hidden. It is difficult to describe, being in its nature variable. Often it is composed of one part talent and two parts character, and 1 e who has it may. in spite of other deficiencies, command success. Large successes are attainable h. the union of aptitude and concentration of pi<rpo-e, coincident with opportunity; the meeting of rle man and the occasion; the suiting of the word to the action, the action to the word: self- ccnlidence; unflagging courage absolute probity. THE FEAR OF DEATH. Whatever may lie beyond the tomb. the tomb its t is nothing to us. The narrow prison house, t e gloomy pomp, the hideousness of decay, are 111 \MI to the living and to the jiving alone. By a ton too man illusion of the imaginal ion, men picture 11 111 si Ives as consciously dead—going through the y 11 rr, ,t s of corruption, and aware of it; imprisoned, vit a knowledge of the fact, in the most hideous o! d! I'i'eons. Endeavour earnestly to erase this il ii-i n from your mind; for it lies at the root of h ,;Ir of death, and it is one of the worst sides ct 11 • iteval and of much modern teaching and art 11 1 tends to strengthen it. Nothing, if we truly n a j,(, it, is less real than the grave. We should be more concerned with the after fate of our dis- carc r1 bodies than with that of the hair which the 1 ter has cut off. The sooner they are resolved iv heir primitive elements the better. The ii- i; at ion should never be suffered to dwell upon t, eir cft cay,Li-cKy. PAST AND PRESENT. Pr-v why is it that people say that men are not st: fools nowadays as they were in the days of vosv I would fain know whether you would have 1" s ei-stand by this same saying, as indeed you i may, that formerly men were fools, and in iteration are grown wise ? How many and -impositions made them fools ? Howmany and 1 "positions were wanting to make them wise ? were those fools? How should these be II Pray, how came you to know that men were v fools? How did you find that they are now ? Who made them fools? Who in Heaven's 1: iisade us wise? What do you think are most, t ■ -e • hat loved mankind foolish, or those that love i t e ? How long has it been wise ? How long t i et v i e ? Whence proceeded the foregoing folly ? v- 1 e the fallowing wisdom ? Why did the old < ,I (I now and no later? Why did the modem m begin now and no sooner? What were we vorse for the former folly? What the better for sit. ceeding wisdom? How should the ancient have come to nothing? How should this same i v "isdom be started up and established? Now uc-r me, an't please you. -B.-LuLLAis.
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I'-Ost Vthce rrauds continued.) Did you make a present to Mrs Roberts of 5s ?— And she put it on the shelf?—She put it in hPr pocket when I g3ve it her. P ° her Did she not put it on the shelf, and when she left the room d.d you take it from the shelf and put m your own pocket ?-Dear me no. I gave he? the 5s. and she put it in her pocket, and I don't know what became of it after. Did you make a present to lMiss Tones at the time ?-No. thODly the skirt ?-I didn't make her a present of orders VCr>" She P0Sted these P°stal «o„ing (sS,da"yl reC"Ied th= These postal orders were stolen on the Tuesday ? -I don't know. m«t lty K*" -St°len 0n tte Tuesday night they Tuesd^v IV'H" in, e possession of this wlittah on iuesday. ednesday, Thursday and Friday, when >ou were in the house ?-She knows that it was Saturday morning that I had them. PW°„f,K Zl »'hy sie did not -ratW 1 you were m the house rather than send you a leter enclosing them the verv tight you left. All she told me was that she could the Friday. reCdved their wa2es on And when you left you did not expect any par- ticular price for tne skirt at all? No, she told me That she would send on the money some time, and I told her to do so when convenient. Re-examined by Mr Trevor Parkins: She could ent r the post office house without going through tbe post office as there was a separate entrance. She emphatically denied having stolen the postal orders, and also gave a general denial to the other suggestions and charges made against her in cross- examination. Margaret Elizabeth Hughes, niece of the previous witness, generally corroborated the evidence given by her aunt. ° Hermon Ganson, employed at the Head Post m, Jr0nd0D> detailed the inquiries he had made and the statements made by the prisoner. Cross-examined For the last three years I have had charge of cases such as this. The Post. Office learned in 1901 that the orders were cashed by Mary Jane Owen, at Penygroes He only made enquiries m June this year. Until then no inquiry was made except by correspondence When he went to the prisoner, and he said that the orders were cashed by Iary Jane Owen, and he asked if she had anything to say, she said "No He had made inquiries at Lonney's in Carnarvon, and ascer- tained that Mrs Owen had an account there. J™* ?!di.- r'°* show him any account, but they told him that there was no account between ♦ i, if ??e? and themselves at that time, though they had had transactions with her. Witness calied upon Lonney's again, they having promised to take the matter up, but they were unable to give him any information owing to che books for the period in question not being on the premises at that time Witness went to Lonney's simply to ascertain whettcr Mrs Owen's statement was consistent Mrs Owen admitted having had the skirt but she had lost the receipt John Bath Allanson, solicitor. Carnarvon, said he had visited Mr Lonney's shop three times since the date of Mr Ganson's visit. The Judge upheld an objection by Mr Ellis Jones Griffiths that the witness was not entitled to say what had taken place at Mr Lonney's. Mr Clement Lloyd At all events you made three different visits to Lonney's ?-Yes T i^lr Griffiths Very interesting indeed. 1 nope you enjoyed yourself (loud laughter) Frederick Brooks, detective officer attached to the post office, corroborated Mr Ganson's evidence. P.C. James Taaffe deposed to arresting the prisoner. In reply she said "Mr Williams may have left it on the counter, and Mrs Owen, who was on the other side of the counter might have taken it." When he arrested Mrs Parry she said "Are you taking Mrs Owen with me and he said No M Walter Samuel Clarke, Head Postmaster, Rhyl. produced the office declaration made by Elizabeth Ann Jones on the 8th of November 1899. She assisted the sub-postmaster at the Rhuddlan Post Office. Cross examined: She left in August 1902 to be married ?-I believe so. And she was married in fact (laughter). I believe so although I have not seen the certificate (laughter) Elizabeth Ann Parry, the prisoner, was called and said she left the post office in August, 1902 to be married. She remembered the visit of her aunt Mary Jane Owen to Rhnddlan. She had been there about a week. During her visit to Rhuddlan she came both into the public and private part of the pest office. She had beard Mr. Williams give his evidence. She re- membered Mr. Williams coming to the post office, and she handed him the pust office orders. He explained that he waD^ed the orders to pay for some balance which be owed for paint. He asked her to put the numbers down on a piece of paper, and she did so. He went outside the post ottice, and she did not see him that night again. Owen was in the post office that night. Witness remembered the occasion because she had been meeting Miss Garner, the new assistant that night, and when they came home her uncle was cross because she was a little late. When she came in Mrs. Owen and her neice were leaning on the counter. Mrs. Owen was frequently in the post office, and she came there to talk to Mrs. Roberts and herself. Witness denied that she bad stolen the postal orders or the letter. With reference to the skirt, Mrs Owen said she would give it her as a present, and her uncle told her that she must not take it and gave her 4s. 6d. to pay for it, saying it was worth no more. Her uncle had been a tailor. Counsel: And understands the value of objects of this character ? (laughter). Witness Yes (laughter). It was not true that she said she would pay for it out oi her wage", ona never got any wages She did not send the postal orders to her aunt, and what her aunt s-;id Was untrue. She had a letter from her aunt saying that she had arrived home safely, but there was nothing said about the postal orders. A few days after her aunt left Mr. Williams came and told them that the firm bad not received the letter. Witness told him to tell her uncle to report the case, and he did so a few days afterwards. Nearly all the relevant parts in the report were in her uncle's handwriting. No part of the handwriting in the report was here. Her uncle told her the report of the post office, and it was then she knew that the orders had been cashed by Mary Jane Owen. Cross-examined by Mr. Trevor Parkins: The paper produced was not the one that she put the numbers down on. She bad paid a visit to her aunt about the end of October, and nothing was said about the orders. She did not know then that the orders had been cashed by Mrs. Owen. It was alter she hlSd returned home that her uncle told her of it. After she knew who it was who cashed the orders she did not give any further information to the post office. Re examined: Why did you not say so ?-Be- cause my uncle told me not to say so as she was a first cousin of bis. John Tdwal Parry, the husband of the prisoner, said he was staying with Mr. Evans at the post office, Rhuddlan, in August, 1901. He went there on the 3rd of August. He stayed there a fortnight. He left there on a Monday. He remembered Mrs. Owen arriving, which he believed was the Friday before he left. Mr. Evans, Mrs. Owen, and Miss Jones mere all related to each other. During the Friday, Saturday and Sunday he was there he saw Mrs. Owen in the post office, on the inner anil private side of the counter. He only saw her once. He bad gone away ou the dty before the orderei were taken. He had a conversation with Mre. Owen on the Saturday morning. She said, I Really my money is getting short.' Cross-examined: You are the husband of the pri- tioner ?- Yes. Mr. Ellis Jones Griffith And you still are after that question Y es (laughter ) Thomas Evans, late sub-postmaster at the Rhudd- lan post office said he was related to Alary Jane Owen aLd to the prisoner. He remembered Miss Garner arriving on the 20th of August. He remembered seeing Mr. Williams come into the post office and buy some postal orders which were handed to him by the prisoner Pairy. Besides prisoner and himself Airs Owen and her niece were n the post office that night. He had seen Mrs Owen in the post office on other occasions. She was in his house for nine days or a fortnight. It she wanted any conversation with him she had to come to the post office and she would come often during the day to the post office. He remembered Mrs Parry bringing the skirt shown saying Mrs Owen had given it to her. He said, "Don t take it from her, pay fer it He gave her 4 6 to pay for it which he thought was the full value of it. It was more of a useful gar- ment than Ornamental (laughter.) He knew nothing about the postal order until Air Williams came and made certain statements to him and he ordered him to report the case. He said that he would wait a few days. Nothing turned up, and then Air Williams turned up (laughter)—and made a foim l report. The handwriting in the report was that of witness, some being in the handwriting of Air. Williams. It was taken down from information given to him by Mr Williams. In the report Mr Williams stated that he bad dropped the letter in the letter box. Wh/n the reply came he saw that the postal orders had been cashed at Penygroes and he came to the conclusion not to say nothing about it, and warned his niece about it, so as not to have any bother about it, her mother and her brother being his greatest friends. He had missed several things from bis house. Cross-examined: He did not suppress the infor- mation that the orders were cashed He did not inform the post office authorities. He did not think it was his duty to give information as to who Mrs. Owen was. The Judge (sternly): You think not. Witness No. The Judge Then what is your duty as Postmaster ? Witness I did not get the information officially I had it by the favour of Mr Richard Williams and I did not feel at liberty to give information from a private source. The Judge Not to your own office, to your chief, the Postmaster-General ? Witness: No. The Judge: Do'nt you think it was your duty ? Witness: No. ) The Judge Then you are very much mistaken it I Fa? a irjQst gross infraction of duty; most improper conduct. Witness: I am sorry to hear it, my Lord. The Judge: Your own common sense ought to I have told you that it was an infraction of duty. Witness: I am sorry to hear that opinion my, Lord, but I honestly thought that I was doing the most proper thing under the circumstances The Judge (warmly): You ought not to use the word honestly in connection with that; you ought to leave that out. Witness: I don't think so. The Judge: Don't use the word honestly. Honestly means honest and fair dealing. Mr Ellis Jones Griffith, addressing the jury. said that the prisoner's defence as they had aheady gathered was that the postal orders were stolen by Mrs Owen and not by the prisoner. He asked was it likely that the prisoner having taken down the number of the notes, having seen Mr Williams take down the numbers, and having been told the destination of the letter, that she would steal orders under such circumstances If anyone was to be pitied in this case it was Mr. Evans, the sub-post- master, to whom all the parties were related. He asked them to believe him when he said that Mrs. Owen was in the post office that night. He was taunted with not denouncing Mrs Owen to the Post Office Authorities and with an infraction of duty, but the case for the prosecution was that Mrs Owen was not the party and therefore he would be denouncing the wrong party Then there was the curious and unexplainable fact that the prisoner having been told that she might have the skirt for six shillings that she sent eight shillings and tenpence. Mr Trevor Parkins replied for the prosecution The Judge in summing up said that there was no doubt something to be explained as to why prisoner should send postal orders for 8s lod. when it was evident she might have had the skirt for 6s. Possibly it was that the prisoner was wishful to get rid of all the postal orders, stolen as they had been. He regretted exceedingly that the postmaster, Air. Evans, when he knew shortly after the transaction that the orders had been cashed by Mary Ann Owen, that he did not think it his duty to inform the Post Office Authorities of that fact Alary Jane Owen was a very common name in Wales and the Postal Authorities would probably find a difficulty in tracing the proper person. But Mr. Evans knew who she was, and it was his bounden duty to have given the information. The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty." It was arranged that the other charges against Mrs Roberts should be heard' at the adjourned Assizes when the Judge will have returned from Cardiff.