Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-09-24

August last, The said Anna came to his house,
and stated she Was very poor and sick, and UNI
able 10 work, and asked for assistance depo-
nent gave her some money TO help her, and
she went away. In about eight days she called
again, and begged for more charity and stated
that she would be put out from where she lived
unless she could get two dollars.
Deponent then gave her the two dollars, and
she left. In a few days she came again, and
brought passport with her to show deponent
she was from the same city, "Ween,n in Ger
many, that deponent came from, and asked if
,deponent could not get her a respectable place
to live out at service.
Deponent told her if she was honest and
respectable he would try to get her place !;
she said she was honest, and was staying with
a respectable family, and invited him to come
and satisfy himself about her character.
Deponent told her to give him the direction
and he would call upon the people in day or
two. She have the direction at the corner Of
Avenue G and 18th street. In day or two
deponent went and found the said Anna on the
sidewalk nfront of the house; sheinvited him
up stairs, and he went to a room in the upper
part of the house she went in and deponent
followed her.
After deponent had got in, the said Anna
closed the door, locked 1t, took the key out, and
went towards the window. She directed depo-
nent to SIT down, which he did, but felt, as he
saw no other person, that something was wrong
Deponent further says, he feels confident
that said Anna threw the key out of the win.
dow at the time she walked towards it the
window sash was raised. In two or three min
utes Francis Rider unlocked the door from the
entry, and came in when the key was put in
the door the said Anna said: "Who in the
name of Heaven is coming there?' and walk
ed in the bedroom.
& When Francis came in, he said to deponent:
F" ia! hal have just caught bird. | am
IN trouble and can use FIVE hundred dollars.
Give me five hundred dollars p Deponent
told said Francis he could not get anything out
OF him. Francis Rider then said, if deponent
did not give him five hundred dollars he would
not let him go out.
Deponent said he could not be kept there
that something must be DONE Francis said
If deponent did not pay the money, he would
punish him; that he had band of two hun
dred men, and then opened the door and whis-
tied, when Simon Rider came in.
Francis said, that with one single whistle he
could call two hundred men to help him. The
SAID Francis then said to deponent: /" If you
do not pay me the money, i can draw re-
yolver On you, which always carry with me-"
DE then added: Write an order and give us
the key to your residence, and one of us will
go there and get the money!, but he (depo-
nent) was to remain there.
Deponent said he had only four or Eve dol
lars at home, and they were welcome to the
key TO 60 and search; he also demanded that
he be set at liberty and permitted to 90.
Said Francis demanded to know if deponent
had no bank book, or money in bank; depo-
nent said he had not; the said Francis then
asked, II he let deponent go, when he would
pay the five hundred dollars; deponent then,
hndng he had to make some promise to OBJ
tain his liberty, said he would pay something
on 1t every week, or every month
Francis Rider then told deponent to write
what he (Francis) wonld dictate; deponent
said he would write anything, only to give him
liberty; deponent then wrote as follows, ac-
cording TO said Francis's dictation:
That he had taken the liberty to visit his
Francis Rider's) sick wife, and that he had
caught him alone with his wife and in satisiac-
ton be agreed to pay FIVE hundred dollars"
And this paper deponent signed. Francis
said that deponent had come to misuse his
wife; deponent handed the paper to said Francis
first without his name, but Francis handed il
back and directed him TO sign il.
Francis took the paper and went out, while
Simon remained with deponent and prevented
him from going away. Francis Rider soon
returned.with man who keeps grocery in
the same house, named Smith. The grocer
read the paper and refused to sign it If It had
lye hundred dollars in it as it was q swindle.
The said Francis then directed deponent to
write and sign another, leaving out the five
hundred dollars, which deponent did.
The grocer then witnessed it, and deponent
was then, in about two hours after he first en-
tered the room, permitted to go. Deponent
further says that in few days after the said
frsncis ana the said Simon came to his house,
aud Francis said he had come 10 settle this
affair, that they had ascertained he was a re-
spectacle man, and that he had not nc much
money as was named in the agreement.
Deponent then injured how mich tbav
wanted. They said two hundred dollars. De.
ponent then said he had not so much. Tbev
asked II he had one hundred dollars He said
no. They then asked IL he had TWENTY-FIVE dol
lars. he said all the money he had was from
sixteen to twenty dollars.
DePonent then gave them that money on
their demand. They gave deponent the paper
ne mad signed, and went away. Deponent de-
stroyed that paper, and he further says of the
contents OF the two papers, and in what he has
stated relative thereto, he has given his best
recollection thereof
Deponent therefore charges that the said
FRANCIS Rider, Simon Rider, and Anna Koch
have, by means Of the foregoing evil practices,
ana by false and fraudulent pretences herein
set forth, cheated and defrauded him out of his
money to the amount Of at least sixteen dollars.
and that he was compelled 10 paw the same
through fear, as he was alone in his house with
the SAID Francis and the said Simon at the
time he paid the said money, he (deponent) not
having any person 10 send for the police or any
other help, and depoDent well remembered the
statement Of the said Francis, that he always
carried revolver with him, and could at any
time call two hundred men TO his aid by
single whistle.
Wherefore dcponent prays that they may be |
dealt with as the law directs, and further SAYS
not. PrrKR DAVIS
Sworn TO before me, the 10Th day of Septem-
Der, 1854, Francis White being sworn as in.
terpreter.) s. II. STUART,
Police Juafica