The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-16
FEMALE FOLBEES.
Painful Experience of Two Young
Ladies'.

For sometime past "postal crooked
ness" has been so freely INDUCED in in
this section Of our State rs to excite sus-
picion at the head of the department ct
Washington, D c., snd consequently
detectives Tidball and Henderson were
sent out to look up the matter. Alter
remaining in the city several days, III
private communion with Postmaster
Rawlings, the detectives learned that
crookedness mad been INDUCED in by
some of our citizens, and to catch
the parties suspicloned 1t would take both
time and care,
Every thing was made ready and the
trap sprung for its victims, which proved
To be none other than Miss ). II. Win
chester, alias Mrs. H. S. Jervis, and Miss
Felicie Winchester, who reside at and
conduct Kindergarten school at No. d
Fifteenth street.
Yesterday afternoon at l o'clock,
with all the necessary papers for an ar
rest, the detectives proceeded to the resi-.
dence of the ladies mentioned, and ar
rested them on q charge of violating
section $3.50 of the fifth chapter OF the
revised postal statutes of the United
States. insomuch that they had used the
United States mails for fraudulent pur-
poses. Accompanied by their father, the
two accused females appeared at
the Office of United States Com
missioner James p. Rogers at 3
o'clock last evening for hearing
which resulted in placing the prisoners
under bonds OF $500 each for their ap-
pesrance at the next term Of the United
States District Court, which convenes IN
this city September 10th. Bonds were
made out and the proper security given,
and those in custody were released tor
the slime beng.
The history ia brief and is substantial
ly IS follows: During the month OF
March last Miss Henrietta l.. Lord, who
keeps q kindergarten school in one OF the
rooms of the Lindsey Institute building,
received two letters dated about March
10th and 10Th, respectively, purportlng
TO have been written at Evansville, Ind,
by q Mrs. IL. S. Jcrvia, who stated that
she had seen number of ladies from
Wheeling, going to New Orleans, and
that they had got to talking about the
kindergarten system Of InstructlDg small
children, and had recommended Miss
Lord as an excell}Dt teacher. Mrs. DER
Wis wrote that she desired to have her
children receive kindergarten instruc-
tions, and would like for Miss Lord to
open d school in Evansville, of which
plan she spoke very hatteringly.
Miss Lord answered the first letter and
received on or about March 26.h, a reply
from Mrs. Jarvis, who was exceedingly
| anxious for her TO hasten on. In the let
ter Mrs. JervIs asked Miss Lord where
she had been educated and trained in tho
Kindergarten art. Miss Lords suspicious
were aroused and she submitted the let
tiers to George X. Wheat, who, upon ex-
animation, found Endorsed upon the end
of one Of the letters this superscrIption,
This letter was sent TO Evansville under
cover to the postmaster, and has been
forwarded" Acting under the advice of
Mr.. Wheat, Miss Lord went TO Rev. j.
D. Motiatt and got him to write
to Rev. Foote, ut Evansville,
| relative to the matter. In due time a
reply was received from Rev. Foote in
which he stated that no such person as
Mrs. Jervis could be found.
The matter was then given to Post
Master Rawlings who sent to the Post
office Department for detectives L. I.
| Tidball and w. T. Henderson. These
gentlement sent decOy letter to this
office, which was called for by one Of the
Misses Winchester, who when question
ed abou. Mrs. Jervis, stated that she had
stopped al their house but was gone. She
also admitted having written a certain
postal card to the postmaster at Eavens-
vile, directing him TO forward Mrs
Jervis' letters to this city.
From what sreporter of the REGISTER
could learn, the affair will go
very hard with the Misses
Winchester, as the law prescribes
IS punishment, dne of $500 and
eighteen months imprisonment for the
alleged infraction.
The alleged cause of the whole matter
is, that the Misses Winchester desired 10
get Miss Lord away, in order to break
up her school, so that their kindergarten
might be increased by .srger number
of children. The affair has created some
excitement in the city, and the young
ladies are the recipients Of a good deal OF
sympathy. They were doubtless utterly
ignorant of the enormity of the offence
they were committing.