The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-16
GENERALITIES.
The Recent Rosfon DernIcnion.


The defalcation of Saunders the paying-teller
of the North National Bank, continues to be
theme of fertile conversation in money circles
Saunders, tits believed, has confessed to the eX
tent of his iniquties. He turned over all his
stock and accounts with the brokers to the bank
authorities, and they being settled realized
about $4,000 to the bank. Over and beyond
this the loss to the bank will be between S94 600
and @97, 900, and this the directors believe will
be the extent of the deficiency, the accounts
having been inspected closely by them and the
Bank Commissioner His first departure
from an honest course was in lending $1,000
OF the banks money, in the belief that he
had good security. This falling he was tempted
to 90 into speculation with other funds, in the
hope of regaining what he had already lost. His
mode OF operation was to put up money rs
margin for the purchase of stock. The money
was taken from time to time, in sums OF $1,000,
5000, $4,000, and $1,000. repeated losses making
further peculations ard further duplication of
checks necessary to avoid exposure. Saunders
has operated through Boston brokers, and chiefly
in the New York stock market, and is believed
TO have made his greatest losses during the last
six months. In his private and personal matters
he was not eXtraVagant, and he was regarded
as a most excellent and efficient officer in the
bank. Saturday afternoon Saunders was taken
into custody on warrant issued by the United
States Court on charge of robbing a national
bank.
Great Crimes i'm France.
If anything more disgusting can be related
than the crimes which the French newspapers
are still damp from describing, we really know
not where to look for it. IS an example,
Madame Bonnefoy, of Marseilles, was sentenced
to hard labor for life for wholesale assassina-
ton. In defiance Of her husband she had
lover and this lover (though himself also mar
ried and a father of three children) paid so little
regard TO his home duties that he cohabited not
only with the culprit Bonnefoy but also with
her sister. Madame Bonnefoy consequently shot
her sister through jealousy, then her husband
because he happened to interfere with her pro-
iects of slaughter and finally her two youngest
children, to whom her lover was attached, i'm
agining them to be his own and not her hus
bands. She afterwards directed shot against
her own breast, but, though it wounded, it did
not kill her. The two children and her hus-
band died; the sister recovered. Next we have
the account of a woman at st. Denis who was
forsaken by her husband because he had dis
covered her infdelity. For some time she lived
with her lover, but on his death entered into
the same relations with his brother Finding,
however, that she was getting old, and fearing
lest her paramour should desert her and carry
away with him what he had sunk in her little
wine business, she persuaded him to marry her
daughter-a girl of fifteen. The poor child,
thus compelled to marry, hated her husband, for
she knew of his relations with her mother. The
husband became jealous, and after three at
tempts to strangle his young wife, ended the
business by shooting her.
The Turco-Egyptinn Troubles.
The Pail Mall Gazette says:-
From the latest Constantinople kilograms ii
appears that the Viceroy of Egypt is directed
by the Sultan not to hold any direct intercourse
for the future with foreign governments. This
will perhaps deprive us of the pleasure of again
entertaining his Highness in London. Consider
| ing, however, how he was entertained on the
two last occasions when he favored US with his
| company, it might be almost as well to humor
| the Sultan to the fullest extent by re-enacting
the provisions of the first and second of Philip
| and Mary, C. 4, under which Egyptians remain
ing within the kingdom one month were
liable to capital punishment. This law
| was, we believe, only ., repealed in
| 1920 on the recommendation of Sil
| James Macintosh, and its provisions seem adj
mirably adapted to meet the views of the Sultan
| We shall be doing kindness to both parties by
taking this decisive step. We also note that the
| Sultan has commanded that the Viceroy shall in
future submit regular quarterly budget to his
| Majesty. Turkey, experimenting the financial
arrangements of Egypt will present most
| interesting and edfying spectacle, ana will be
most reassuring to the bondholders of both
countries. 1t is as good as if the directors OF
| The Albert Life Assurance Company had under
taken the management of the affairs of the Lon
don, Chatham, and Dover Railway.