Telegram-herald., 1890-01-04

Lsft Lying On the Cold, Bare Floor
AL Night.
TIE HUSBAND And FATHER away
A Chsttel Mortgage shark Dssolates .
Home aud Get, scored os judge bareh
Fhs NeTs Bea ana heaaios
Bragged Frolu tuaef fhtta.

et. .a mas 1.as 10 i tA4t me4us bus.-
ness.
Hatemsn has been engaged Ia the
business OF lenJng small sums of
money 70 persons in eramped hnane Al
conditions, for long time and taking
as security Tor h- loans, mortgages on
their personal effects. Most Of the
business OF TINS character IS done with
laboring people. and generally during
periods ot commercial depression, when
the borrower can easily be forced
70 agree 10 the most heartless re-
uu.renents oil the lender The
case decided by Judge Burch Yesterday
is but one in "a thousand and many are
even worse in their revolving minuua
than tins one.
In the present case, the wife OF PHIL
lip Blake, a fireman on the G.. K. a J.,
was obliged, during her husband 5
absence, 10 have some money, and IA
her extremity resorted TO Bateman,
who loaned her $50 for thirty days, at
his usual rate of 10 per cent, and took
her note, secured 10y a mortgage on AL
the household effects. Tins was IN
June. 1857. While the amount stated
IN the note was S65, but SCI were pad;
- beng retained as sO-called interest
and the other II for "tilmg.'
Up 10 the 18th of October fol
lowing. Blake paid three M
stallments each month OF So each,
making - each month during that
time About tins time sickness occur
red in the family and $40 more was
/ borrowed from Bateman and another
mortgage was executed. This one for
/ Sll. while but $40 WAS paid over, the
other Il gong for the "Iilmg." Pay
mcnts were continued regularly for
between nineteen and twenty months,
when Batcman demanded the payment
/ of the full face OF the note. To this
| Blake demurrcd. claiming that he had
paid much more than tine original so,
! besides large amount IN interest, ana
refused TO pay any more. When Bate
man found he could bleed his victim
no longer he TesOrted 10 the
| courts to help HIM get his last pound
! plevin. Here came ln his crOwning act
/ of cruelty, and he found bOwclless
| constable 10 90 with HIM. The wife
was not well, the baby III in It's crib,
and the father away at ms work. But,
Notwithstanding these conditions, ne
| took everything IN the hOuse-stOve
carpet. bed and bedding, and left the
/ helpless mother w.th still more helpless
4 1. f... q B., D.
On the trial of the case, Bateman un-
| dertoOk to prove that the s. payments
were not TO be credited on the note,
but were in the nature OF a "consid-
| Grafton" to him for extending the
| mortgage.
As stated, the good, were taken away
! bv force undcr the writ of rcplcvln but
! we're afterwards taken from Bateman
! ON another writ and both cases arc sub
! stantially decided i'm this one trial.
! Judge Burch cmphatIcaly declared
| that the notes had been more than paid,
and then concluded by giving the dc
/ fendcnt Blake, Judgment for 500
/ damages. Judge Burch's closing re-
marks are Well worth reading:
/ "The court further finds from the
/ testimony that, at the time of the cX-
/ CCUtlOu Of the said mortgage, the de-
/ fcndaut and has wife had substantially
no other property than that mentioned
IN the mortgages, and that ther
/ circumstances and condition were those
/ of comparative poverty; and that at
! the time tho goods were demanded
+ and the writ of rcplovu served,
/ they were living ln a humble way
/, and the defendant child, baby,