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A TENBY MAN IN TROUBLE.

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A TENBY MAN IN TROUBLE. Pontypridd Police-court on Wednesday— befOreMr Ignatius Williams (stipendiary), Mr T. P. Jenkins, Mr Evan John, Mr T. Morgan, Mr P. Dunn, and Dr Davies—Henry Rogers, about 30 years of age, married, and described as a hobbler, belonging to Tenby, and residing occasionally at Porth, was charged with obtaining £ 2 by false pretence from Miss Lizzie War bur ton, residing at Kadyr Lodge, Radyr, near Cardiff. Prisoner's face c is familiar in the court, for about four years ago be was brought up in custody and charged with obtain- ing by false pretences food and lodgings and money from a landlady at Ynysybwl. He then represented himself as a "Royal Engineer," and stated to the duped hostess that he had been commissioned by the Government to survey all the land in that district.! He said that his "professional assistants would follow him in a week at least with the necessary apparatus for the work, also that they had a good deal of luggage, because they intended staying in the place for 12 months. The landlady thereupon suggested that she had better re-furnish the house to accommodate. the gentlemen." He unhesi- tatingly approved of the idea, and she immediately went down to Pontypridd and bought about £ 10 worth of household effects. Prisoner was for this offence sentenced to a term of imprisonment. About 18 months later the prisoner was again charged with a similar offence at the same police-court. He put up on this occasion at a respectable hotel, and re- presented himself as a colliery traffic manager to a landlady of a certain cottage in the Rhondda whom he promised to find for her husband better employ- ment than that of a collier. In recognition of this kindness he was supplied by the hostess with various luxuries in the shape of fresh eggs every morning* and elderberry wine, &c., when he returned "home" in the evening. Prosecutrix deposed that about three months ago she met the prisoner at the Cardiff Taff Vale Railway station. She had not seen him previously, but after some conversation both entered the same compartment. She was going home. On the way to Radyr he earnestly requested her to favour him with her address, and she eventually complied. On the following evening she received from him a letter, which she shortly after destroyed. About a fortnight or three weeks afterwards she casually met him again on the railway platform at Cardiff. She visited Cardiff daily, as she was employed there as a dressmaker at Mr Jones's drapery shop in Queen-street. He enquired of her if she was engaged. She replied she was not, whereupon he presented his addresses to her, asking her, Would you kindly allow me to keep company with you ? He told her subsequently that he had 965 in the bank at Porth, f50 of which, he said, had been left to him by his grandmother, and that his earnings were 35s. per week. He represented himself as a clerk at the offices of Messrs Insole and Sons, the Cymmer Colliery, the Cymmer, and that he had occupied the same post since he was 15 years of age. He then observed that whenever he got married his mother would furnish a house for him. On returning from Cardiff they parted at Radyr, she going home, and he proceeded by the same train to Porth. She saw him next at her parents' house at Radyr on Bank Holiday. He arrived in the locality about nine o'clock in the evening. He had a conversation with the mother that night respect- ing a proposal to marry her daughter. He subse- quently informed the prosecutrix that he had obtained parental consent to marry her. He slept that night at prosecutrix's parents' home, and remained there until the following Wednesday. He was regarded by the family as a "thorough gentleman." He then returned to Porth. On the ensuing Friday she received from him the following letter:- 145a, Pugh-street, Cymmer, Porth. Rhondda Valley, August 8th, 1889. My dear Liz,—Just a line to let you know that I arrived home quite safe on Wednesday morning, and very sorry, dear, to have to inform you I really cannot come down to-night, but I have very good news for you, and that is I am coming down to Cardiff offices next Monday, and going to be there all the week, because there is so many of them on their holidays, and there is a very heavy demand for coal just now. Trade is begmuing to resume its former attitude. Dear Lizzie, I should like to see you to-night, but it is really unavoidable, and I know you will forgive me. I was speaking to the manager just now about a house, and he is quite willing for me to have one, and he came back to the office and told all the clerks there. So you can guess I am well chaffed. Please write back, if possible, by return, or ask Charlotte to do so if you will be too tired. Give my love to your mother and Charlotte and all the family, and I must remain your true and affectionate lover, HARRY. Eleven "crosses," apparently representing kisses, followed. On the following Monday morning he was looking out for her at the Radyr station, and after waiting for some time they met each other, and thence went to Cardiff. She was going to her work. On the way he remarked, "I am removed from the Cymmer office to the Cardiff offices, and I am glad of it." In the evening they met again, and returned together to Radyr. He told her he had been at the offices all day, and lodged at her home that night. He showed her a receipt for a parlour suite which he said he had bought. He told her he had almost invariably experienced damp beds at Cardiff, and that was the reason why she requested him to accompany her home. With regard to the furniture he was very pleased, and said he had had a bargain. The receipt was for 120 10s, and it contained a stamp and a signature over it. He lived at prosecutrix's mother's house all that week, and she and her mother were under the impression that he went every morning to the "offices." At the end of that week he said he had had consent by the firm to take a fortnight's holiday. He asked her to kindly lend him some money. She replied that she could not, but borrowed 20s from her sister to give him. He wanted the loan he said, to enable him to go to the Cymmer Colliery Offices, Porth, to fetch his pay, and to see the manager about a house. He met her on the ensuing Moaday, and told her that he had failed to obtain the wages due to him, and that he had been reported to Messrs Insole and Sons, and consequently, he said, he had better go to Cardiff to see the firm about the matter. The banns for marriage were put up at Radyr Church on Friday, the 16th of August. She accompanied him to the clergyman's house, and they Were to have been married on Monday last. He was supplied with food and lodgings up to Saturday, the 24th of August. He had represented himself to her as a "single man." In consequence of what she and her sister had heard, both went to Porth on Wednesday last, and called at Messrs Insole's offices, but they could not obtain any information about him there. She had left her situation in order to get married to the prisoner. She said she was not presented with a wedding I ring. Prisoner stated to her that he would buy one in Tenby, his native place. He always liked to patronise tradesmen who were friends of his. Prisoner was remanded for a week. Bail was refused.

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