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CARNARVONSHIRE AND ANGLESEY ASSIZES. BIGAMY AND ATTEMPTED BURGLARY AT LLANDUDNO. FALSE PRETENCES AT HOLYHEAD. CAREER OF A "DOCTOR OF SCIENCE. The Joint Winter Assizos for the counties of Carnarvon&ire and Anglesey weiro held at ^'OarccU'von on Tuesday, before Mr Justice A. )T. Lawrence. t Wilh the magnificent coach, in which the '■Ttidg'J and the High-Sheriff (Mr C, G. Assheton- Bmith, of Yayiioi) rode, as the oentre of at- !ftractian, the procession which was on the same sh scale as at the previous Assize, at- tracted much attention. In front of the coach were eight stalwart quarrymen, and be- Jaind were a similar number, all wearing suit- 'able livery, with silk hat", adorned with "Cockades. As the procession, at the head of J'lWhich were two trumpeters with beautiful 'iiand worked silk banners, passed the old stle) tihe band of the Llanberis Company of )he Iloyal Welsh Fusiliers (Territorials) struck the National Anthem. The band also ;played selections outside the Sportsman Hotel Hariri g lun-ch. The TTigh Sheriff, who vroro the uniform of a Deputy Lord-Lieutenant, was accompanied on the Bench by Mrs A^sheton Smith, the Eon. Violet Vivian, Miss Morgan, Plae Oood- mor; Mr Gore Langton, Lady Lawrence, Mr EL C. Vincent (Messrs Ca.rtor, Vincent and 00.), who acted as Under Sheriff in the ab- feence through illness of Mr H. Lloyd Garter, Send tha Sherifi's Chaplain (the Rev J. T. '"janes, Portdinorwic). GRAND -TURY. The following constituted the grand jury:- Col. Sir Thomas H. Marshall, K.C.B. (fore- man) Messrs William Pughe, David Pierce [Williams, Griffith Jones Roberts, Henry Lewis. [A W. S. Williams, J, W. Wyatt, Ernest iN&eie, T. E. Roberts, Owen Jonee, W. G. Thomas, E. Norman Davies, R. B. Ellis, Bichard Thomas, Edwaird Hughes, Robert R. Roberts, Maurice T. Morris, Robert Williams, R. Newton, Dr Lloyd Williams, Dr R. H. Miil« Roberts, and Dr Robert Parry. CHARGE TO THE GiRAND JURY. In charging the grand jifry, the Judge con- gratulated them upon the state of crime in Anglesey and Carnarvonshire*. He thought Jiiat only seven prisoners was a respectably small number having regard to the length of time which had elapsed since the last Assize. rrhe cases to come before them were not of an exceptional nature, but such as they were, unfortunately, only too familiar with. Tie regretted that there wero three prisoners, and four ohargws of burglarious entering or house- breaking, which wae not a crime that ho would have expected in this part of the world, but, unfortunately, crime was committed ,where it as least expected, and he had occa- gion to recognise that fact recently himsalf. It wae, a crime which was more serious than o,ppeared at first tight; it was not only the Icet property, but the terror which was caused to the householder. Not only did the house- holder suffer by the damage to his doors and rjrindows, but the whole neighbourhood was SJarmedj and life became a burden to the in- habit i.ate. One of the prisoners was charged frrith a rather unusual offence, he being in- dicted under a Statute of Edward III., and jis far ae, he (the Judge) knew, there had been Do similar indictment for a great many years, -but it was clear that if what was alleged Against the accused waa true, it constituted a àrime. The charge was that of going armed in such a way as to terrify the people who ero present on the occasion in question. In past times it was the custom for all persons to carry aims, but that was not the kind of "going armed' that the Statute dealt with, but "going armed" ae to terrify people. The acanted in this case seemed to have met a little girl, and after some slight conversation jwith hex, he told her to go uito a glade in the wood, but she very properly declined. -Aftez,wards he produced a revolver, and threatened to shoot her father. That was going armed within tho meaning of the Statute, and was calculated to terrify even the most strong minded, and in common Itw it would be an assault. The accused did not shoot anyliody, but his conduct was highly dangerous. People with revolvers perhaps did not mean to shoot, but they had no busi- pess to toy with dangerous weapons. AN UNFORTUNATE MATRIMONIAL EXPERIENCE. .William Edward Whiteley (34), oabdriver, Llandudno, pleaded guilty to an indictment for marrying on September 25, 1907, at Llan- idudno, Margaret Eleanor, his former wife, to whom he was previously maaried on Septemoer 30th, 1895, being then alive. Mr R. O. Roberts, who appeared for the ac- Jbused, explained that after hving a short time :with his firet wife she de-serted h;m, End he <J.id not see anything of her tor seven or e,f,Íit years, and he maimed the second woman about a year ago. He met his first wife about tax or seven years after the marriage, and he 1d her that he bad been offered eanploy- knent for himself and also for herself as house- keeper, but she refused to return to him. Jt jwas rather a sad case, as '-ne accused bad offered to take his first wife Lack again. M.r Trevor Lloyd (Insttructed by Messrs Marks and Marks, Llandudno), who appeared for the prosecution, stated that the woman with whom the accused went thiough the form of marriage on Lhe second occasion did rot know that he had been married. Richard Billington, stated that hie sister married the accused in 1895, and after they had Lirsd together for four or five years they separated. The Judge How came they to be separated? Witness: I don't know the facta of the The Judge You are quite right to say so. Alice Owen, the second wife of the accused, informed the Judge that she did not know, .when she married him, that he ,was already married. She was employed at an hotel at jlhe time. Mr Roberts: Who told you that. the accused iwas married?—My mother got to know. D:d you continue to live with him?—Yes. Has he been good to you?—Yes, and we lived Jiappily. The aocmsed said that his first wife brought 6 summons against him for misconduct, and she .as granted a separation oxdm and ITs a week, but nothing had been paid. He had Sfcsked her to join him again, but she refused. Tho Judge, in sentencing the accused, re- toarked that his matrimonial life had evi- dently been an unhappy one. He might think iJlat was some excuse, but he had deceived fills young woman, and the only fact ill miti- tion of his conduct was that he had treated her well. He had apparently conducted him- pelf rn a respectable manner. Taking into oon-suierstion the fact that he had been in prison for four months already, he would te sentenced only to one calendar month's im- prisonment, iATTEMPTBD BUIK3LAR1Y AT LLANDUDNO. A DRUNKEN FREAK. George Hughes (37) pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to commit a burglary at the dwelling house of Elizabeth Parker, Vandudno, Mr T. E. Morris (instructed by Messrs Marks and Marks) prosecuting, stated that the ac- cused WM found attempting to remove the putty from a window at the house of Elisabeth Parker, and he made a statement that be had been on the booze that day, and that he had heard there was "tons of gold" in the house (laughter). The Judge: Does the constable say that he iwas drank? Mr Morris: Yes. The Judge said the only thing in the ac- cused's favour was that the house was an empty one. That he attempted to commit the crime was perfectly clear, but it was not jpite ao terrifying to go into an kowal as it was to go into one which was inhabited. No doubt drunkenness was at the bottom of the case, but drunkenness was no excuse, and men oou'd not get drunk with impunity es- pecially when drunkenness led to the commis- sion of crime. The sentence would bo two months with hard labour. A YOUNG MAX'S LAPSE. Lemuel Pierce (18), described on the calen- dar as an iron planer, p'eaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering a counting house at Waenfawr, the property of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway, and stealing £1 10s 7:td. MT T. E. Morris (instructed by Mr J. T. Ho- berts) said that the accused was arrested at Shrewsbury, he having disappeared for two yeairs after oommitting the offence. Ho v. as already committed to the Montgomeryshire# Quarter Sessions with another man, and the police suggested that the Judge should take that charge in'o consideration when sentencing the accused. Supt.. Griffith gave the accused a good character, saying that he had got into bad company, and ho was only fifteen when he committed the offence. The Judge, after stating that the accused had evidently been led away by an older man, sentenced him to one month's imprisonment. BURGLARY AT BODYEAN. Robert John Griffith (19), labourer, pleaded j guiity to a charge of burglary at B .dvean, and stealing cigarettes an<d tob'-H-co, and also wi'-h a similar offonce at Nevin. Mr Austin Jones, who appeared for the accused, said that at the time h3 committed tlhe offence he was cleJti(u t. and practically starving, otherwise he would not have oom- mitted the burglary. His mind was evidently not .j sound, for he had a curious tendency to commit burglaries and ho seemed to regard theso offancog as being of a much ni I-aer character than they really were, and those who kn<w him were of opinion iihat he would, commit burglaries to the end of his days be- cause his weakness was in that direction. Though he pi-adied guiity, he did not seem to think there was anything wrong in 'the offoncea he committed. Supt. Jones, Pwllheli, described the accused an a mn of bad character. He was brought before Judge Sit,ton at tho Assizes, and he received a lecture which should have done him some good. After leaving prison a situation, was found for him 4 the Harbour Works, Pwllheli, bat he suddenly left, and he was next accused, of robbery at Merioneth. The Judge remarked that Counsel had stated that the accused was not quite intelligent, but he appeared to understand things as well as most of them. "I must try to convince you that you have pleaded guilty -to a PTICLLS offence, and if you come again you will be sent to penal servitude for many years," said the Judge. "You wiU be ienv, to pri-on for eighteen months," REMARKABLE TALE OF FALSE PRETENV Efc>. THE CAREER OF A "DOCTOR OF SCIENCE." Alexander George Hamuli, (SOil de- scribed in the calendar as a ''d<-ctor of science" was indicted for obtaining by false pretences from Mr Edward Owen, George ±io £ <?l, Holyhead, the sum of £ 8, and also with obtaining ij-5 from Mr Samuel Thomas, Holyhead, by latse pretences. The accused who w "pt copiously during the whole 16me he was in tihe box; pleaded guilty. M,r T. K. Parry (insitruct^d by Mr T. R. 'Evans, Holyhead), prosecuting, explained Uhat the accused arrived at the George Hotel wtiithoujsi any luggage^ but he explained that his motor wt together with tho luggage would arrive on the following day. Ho further ex- plained that he was a doc Dr, but did not practise in England be«wiise his certificate would not peniut him, hut he p refuted: a card giving an address in Paris. The landlord r-ally believed that ho was a dootor, and he avowed him to stay from September 5 to the ,9th. He af-terwardu informed the landlord that. his chauffeur had b-?en arrested in Dublin and that the Dublin police had asked him to release him. He then tried to borrow J310 "to bring the motor car over," and for him to go oyer to Dublin for it. The landlord lent him L8, and when the accused returned from Dublin he alleged that he had Sii-missed his chaaiffeur, and also that his uncle was going to open an account in Holyhead, but no had been opened, and the police found that his name was really not HamUton th lte wais not a doctor of science, and that he did not own a motor car. With regard to the second charge he went to Mi Ihomas, and said that Mr Owen had lent him some ¡ money, but It was not sufficient for his purpose, and he borrowed £ 5 fiom Mr Thomas Mr TW,c h°"JYeT> /id not send him to Mr Thomas He understood that there were ()tller charges pending against the accused c«4rire, ^Me,Ther<, Me cb"«6s Superintendent Protheroe fHolvhead'- gave Sid S Wltal of the prisoner's lifø. He: that in 10^ A ™ e and found to r i ?rJvSon€r ^Pa^nted hunsetf to be a Coimt, and he married a lady in Ger- Sy' In the^ same year he was sentenced to 'e imprisonment at Hamburgh for iarceny In Novemlbea:, 1907, he came to Lon. ™ ^^t's^quare until Feb. he ow«* ^22- Later he was charged with obtaining £ 25 by false pretences. In connection wrth this charge he went. to aD agency and obtained employment as an en- gineer at a salary of £ 600 per annum, but sub- sequently it was found that the characters he gave were forgeri. He obtained £ 25 on the s^engt-h off that employment, and for that offence ne received a sentence of three months, j w€,nt to reside in another part of Lon- don, where he borrowed the sum of £ 13 from a fallow lodgeT, and also obtained' food and lodg- ings by fake pretences. Hothead was the next place he visiterf, and after staying there a day he proceeded to Liverpool. This was a? the beginning of June, and whilst he was at Liverpool he staved with a Mies M. Jackson froan whom he obtained £40 by false pretencoo as well as a gold watch, and warrant had been issued against him for that offence. Then he hired a motor car for three days, and obtained credit to the extent c- f £14. Afterwards he I hired another motor Car. again obtaining credit this time to the extent of £10. He called upon a Liverpool tailor, a Mr Bucldand, from whom he ordered seven suits of clothes and directed that they were to be sent to his ad- dress, No. 41, Toxteth-road. Five oi the suits were eent, and after thalt he left with the suits in his possession, and arrived at Holyhead, orossing over to Dublin, where he met a Air Warren, from whom he endeavoured to obtain £30 by false pretences. (Subsequently he ob- tained credit to the amount of L3 13s, and borrowed £ 2 12s ".to release his motor car at North Wall," and he also borrowed' a ba.g from his landlady to carry his books in connection with the British Association, of which he waa a member. He had made a variety of state- ments. The Judge Yes. I have read his statements. The Acoused, (eobbinig) I plead guilty. The Judge You seem to have adopted crime as a profession, and you make credulous people Your victims. I want to treat you leniently, but you are the sort of person whom it is my duty to repress. When I read your statement I wondered why you did not go back to Ger- maony, seeing you describe youoieeiif as a capa- ble engineer, but the statement made by the superintendent explains why you won't go back. It was in Germany you commenced your career of crime, and now you practice it in this unhappy ooiintry, where we cannot sub- mit to it. You must be imprisoned to twetlve months hard labour. I will also make an order for youx deportation at 'the end of your sentenoe. ALLEGED ASSAULT NEAR PORTMADOC. John Roberts (22), a carpenter, pleaded not guilty to a tfcarge of assaulting a girl named Margaret Ellen Jotus (8), near port, madoo. J$e was also changed with "going ajhffin* aj-med with, a dangerous weafon^ to witt

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