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PRICF 4d.
STAMPED 51.

TRIAL FOR _IMPOSITION ON JEWELLERS.

At the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on
Wednesday, before the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord
Ardmillan, and Lord Jervisewoode, a man named
Henry Roger was found guilty of falsehood, fraud,
and wilful imposition, and sentenced to eight years'
penal servitude. The trial extended over three
days. It appeared from the evidence that at dif-
ferent times in 1867 the prisoner had, through re-
presentations to the effect that he had just returned
from America, that he was about to be married,
and that his intended wife bad money, induced
Messrs. Marshal!, jewellers, Princes-street, Edin-
burgh, and Mr. Swan, jeweller, Stirling, to give him
goods, the former to the value of about
£2OO, and the latter to between £5OO and
£6OO. The prisoner granted bills for the
jewelry, which consisted of diamond rings,
gold watches and chains, &c. ; but the jewel-
lers having afterwards had their suspicions aroused
caused him to be apprehended, when they found
their goods pawned in shops in Edinburgh. Mr.
Swan had become acquainted with the prisoner
through the latter having visited Stirling as a pho-
nographic lecturer. Mr. John D. Marshall, of the
firm of Messrs. Marshall, said in reply to the ques-
tion how he came to furnish the prisoner with
goods, " He told such cock-and-bull stories about
his experience in America and of California, and
of his running the blockade three timed, that you
thought you would have seen them." (Laughter.)
" The prisoner," Mr. Marshall continued, " was
continually asking me to dine with him, and when
I refused he would say, ' Will you take some lunch,
then? I am a lonely party, and 1 have nobody
but you.' Being of a compassionate nature, I have
dined with him, but it was an awful bore." (Laugh-
ter. The prisoner had been engaged to marry Jessie
Ferguson, daughter of a blacksmith at Bridge of
Allan, but the match was broken off in the summer
of 1867. In the autumn of last year he formed an
acquaintanceship with the family of Mr. John W.
Moule, of Maud Villa, Sydenham, while they were
living for a few days at Bridge of Allan. Roger
fell in love with that gentleman's daughter Olivia,
and made proposals of marriage to her, thrusting
presents of jewellery on her and her sisters. Miss
Moule discouraged the prisoner's attentions, but in
one of her letters she said, " Though I cannot give
you my love in this world I shall ever think of you
with the affection of a sister for a dear and noble-
hearted brother, until we meet together again where
partings are no more." Iu the prisoner's reposi•
tories were found two letters written in short-
hand, purporting to be from a firm in America
with which he was connected, and as show-
ing that he had sufficient resources to meet the bills
standing against him ; but it was proved that these
letters were written by the prisoner himself. Seve-
ral of the prisoner's relatives were called as wit-
nesses, but none of them had ever heard of his being
in America. On the contrary it was shown that
during the time he alleged he was in America he was
in Ireland giving lectures on phonography. Mr.
Isaac Pitman, of Batb, one of the witnesses, ad-
mitted that the prisoner was " one of the ablest
phonographers in the kingdom." The prisoner
examined several of the witnesses himself, and at
the close he addressed the jury for more than three
hours. He stated that he had been an agent of the
Confederate States, and that he bad been requested
by a gentleman of the highest respectability to
replace goods which had been sold for bread during
the American war, and that that originated his
transactions with the jewellers. He maintained
that all his dealings had been of an open and honest
character, and he concluded his speech as follows :
—" As au honest man I appeal to God. If lam
guilty of these crimes—if I had intended to wrong
one or other of those merchants, then I say, may it
be my fate to live in this world a beggar, and die an
outcast, and be shut out from the presence of the
Eternal for ever!" The jury, of ter being absent about
five minutes, returned a unanimous verdict of
guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to eight
years' penal servitude.

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, June 4.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :