Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-05-12
ESTABLISHED 1881.
OUR LETTER ERUM BUSIUN
.,u, SpfRfT or SPECULITION dS
riRfDFSLF MANIFESTED.
Mrs. Howe and Her wonen's
naui.-Stock spccniaiions Among
Students SOME Good Music.

BosroS. April 3O.--A verdict of guilty
an, eoch of the iour counts iii the lndict-
m.ut against Mrs. s. l.. Howe, eN-
n,,sident of the defInct ladies
Irposit." has been given by the jury,
after II trial, and sentence is only re
.pryed till the exceptions shall have been
areued. As said exceptions are not OF Il
nalnre to have much weight, il is proba-
ii, that Madame will soon begin her term
of punishmcut. 1t really seems pity
that tlis gray haired old woman of 80 on
No wears should have craved money and
what it brings so eagerly as to have
cheated a lot OF women out ut their small
earnings, and to finish up her own days,
probably, in duranee vile as II result
You have heard Of the "Nomen 5
Rank ?" Doubtless-for ii is too good Il
loir--too sad II truth-tllat Boston and
Boston women particularly should have
been .takei in and done for'' i'll such a
cheap fashion, and you know you always
like to laugh at Boston when you get
chance-which isn't 50 particularly often,
either
We'll, this affair was opened three or
four years ago, in very private way,
deposits not being publicly solicited, but
1t was given out and the rumor grew
that there was place where poor single
women aud widows could deposit their
money ut per cent. per month interest,
receiving their months interest in
advance at date OF deposit. Interest
might bo regularly drawn in advance
every three months and principal could
lie Withdrawn at amy time without
notice. There are fools among the men
else there would never have been u south
sea Bubble. There are fools among the
women else there would never have been
Woman's bank. The charge of false
Pretenses in the indictment was supposed
10 be sustained by proof that Madame
and her subordinates held out that the
deposit was supported by an immense
fund left by Quakers to be distributed
among needy women and this means was
taken to carry out the intentions OF the
donors. So the poor victims are supposed
to have been ''roped in'' by this charita-
Die dodge though 1t seems to me that
the eyidence-as reported in the paper
has not sustained this allegation, but
mther that the women put in their money
tor the interest and trusted to luck in the
widest fashion, to even get their money
back. A great many did get it back and
made money out of the institution before
II went up. BY the way, the first orpose
which was made of the concern was by a
Boston daily, which sent man reporter
dressed in wuman's clothes, to make Il
bogus deposit, which, / believe, they
wouldn't take. They We're shrewd, but
have come to grief after all. But when
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WASN'T unite correct, for a very large
proportion of the depusitors were from
other cities, and in the lists of names
that were published, never found one of
whom had even before heard. They were.
only lnnr. hard working, ignorant. mn
business like women. who didn't know
and didn't take the trouble TO find out
why roses can't grow ON thorn trees, or
money ia bure,pl drawers. For her
mreau draws were Mrs. lnw,'s .,bank -
uuo of her assistants SAVING she had s.au
drawers full of bank 'bilis How n.an
ti., BURGLARS of the conutrv m,i.t feel Ia
think tltpy Didn't Gather III s,,b , i,h
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ont like an epidemic among the students
Of the colleges and professional schools ol
Boston and vicinity this winter. know
Of first class smart. shrewd Young fellows,
who should stand in the first ranks in