Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-06-28
Cot a Coffin BY Fraud.

ho Nunt VI isilld AhhiC iihIhuEh,i
a teacher Of music. and her mother,
who were charged before Police JUS
tice Haden Corsey in Dalston, Eng
land, with obtaining property on
false pretenses, is ofunusualin interest !
because it was very sad case and
because it pictures curious phase
of English society.
Miss Fitzhugh was ayoung woman
of good repute, who had fine and
well-trained voice, and in 1883 was
making enough money to support
herself and her father and mother,
the father being an invalid. In Dc
tober. 1888. Mr.. Hayward, the man.
ager of Prof Baldwin who was at
TINT time jumping from IA balloon
when at great height, came to
Miss Fitzhugh and asked her To un,
dertake the task OF getting the prince
OF Wales TO attend one OF Baldwin's
exhibitions. He promised TO give
her 10 pounds if she succeeded
Accordingly, says correspondent
OF the New York Sun, Miss Fitzhngh
got anappointmcnt 10 meet Sir Fran.
els Knollys at Marlborough house,
and there succeeded SO well that tho
prince. the princess, and their three
daughters attended the shaw at
Alexandra palace. Miss Fitzhugh
had the honor OF singing be.
fore the prineely family when they
were there also, but she never got
the 10 pounds promised to her noI
any other sum.
She had been at considerable ex.
pense for dress and otherwise in this
matter, and so gotinto debt. Itwas
| then her troubles began. She tried
10 get AN appointment as vocalist
in the family Of the prince, and those
who promised 10 help her 10 thepost
told her she was sure TO succeed and
even sent her letters Decentralization
on the certainty OF her appointment.
Relying on this Miss Fitzhugh neg.
lected To try for other pupils, and
while waiting for the appointment
got deeper in debt.
Along in December. 1889, her father
died. To provide for the funeral she
went 20 an undertaken and told him
she had been appointed 10 the post
/ Of vocalist in the family ofthe prince.
and no thereupon trusted her for the
/ price oil decent funeral. The bill was
/ sent to Marlborough house. IL
/ happened that n Miss Fitzhugh was
employed there in another capacity,
and she got the bill. Her father
wnsnn't dead. and she didn't owe any
undertaken for burying him. So she
made fuss about IL.
Miss Lizzie Fitzhugh. on being
asked 10 explain, at once told the
whole story truthfully. The under
takcr, Mr.. John Gray OF Seven Sis.
tiers road, offered 10 forgive her the
debt, but the princes household
would not allow That.
Meantime Mrs. Fitzhugh, the moth.
or OF the tenchcr. believing that the
appointment had already been made
had obtained credit elsewhere fol
food by telling that her daughter was
employed 10y the prince. The prose
cutor who represented the prime,
hunted up the cases, aud mother and
daughter were arrested.
At tho trial the girl told the whole
story. She told the magistrate that
her mother wns perfectly innocent o
the fraud, and TINT the whole blamC
rested upon her. The magistrat,
might do ms he pleased with her, but
u he would be so kind as not TO scnI
her mother again 20 lie on the plank
bed, which would kill her, she would
BIO thankful. The younger prisoner
further told the magistrate that fol
the last four years she had struggled
to keep her sick father and mother
Her father wns now dead and hel
mother very IN. She had known
great privations, and had seen bel
father and mother with scarcely any
food TO eat.
The magistrate held the prisoner,
for trial, but released the mother oil
her own recogniznnce.