The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-02
WANTS HER MONEY.
A vengeful Woman's Relent-
less Pursuit of a Debtor.
THE KENT EDITORS RECORD
Accused OF swindling Maggie Koran, o,
Denver, Of Her Property-She IL
in Jail to Keep Peace.

Miss Maggie Koran, of Denver, was
locked up in the county jail last evening
on commitment issued by Justice of the
Peace w. Greenleaf. of Kent. She was
arrested at the instance of Mrs. H. G..
Jeffries, of Kent, who charged her with
threatening to do her great bodily harm,
and in default of bonds in the sum of 5000
to keep the peace for one year was sent to
Jail.
Miss Koran is more than past middle
life and she tells very pitiful story con-
corning a great wrong which she claims
that II. G. Jeffries, Of Kent, formerly edi-
tor of the Kent advertiser, has done her.
Jeffries was at one time justice of the
peace in Denver and is still well known
there. Under date of March q, 1888,
the Denver Republican published the
story of his career in that city,
charging him with skipping out and leav-
ing behind many creditors, among them
Miss Maggie Koran. who he was accused
of defrauding Of $4,314. her life's savings.
In the same issue of the Republican it is
stated that the grand jury returned two
true bills against Jeffries, charging him
with obtaining money from Maggie Koran
under false pretenses, and with larceny by
bailee. Jeffries' whereabouts we're not
known at the time, but the Republican
says it subsequently developed that he
was living in style at Santa Cruz, Cal.
In her complaint Miss Koran charged
him with borrowing the money, giving
her promissory note in which it was
stipulated that he was to pay back the full
amount with interest at the rate of 10 per
cent. at the end of a year. He is also &C
cused of representing, in order to obtain
the money, that he was news
paper publisher and worth $3.50,
Jeffries never paid back to Miss Koran any
part of the sum borrowed, except $50 due
as interest. After leaving Denver he was
sued by Miss Koran in the civil depart
ment of the circuit court, and judgment
was given in the full amount prayed for.
with interest at 10 per cent. Jeffries came
back from California, and, standing trial
upon the two criminal charges. was &C
Quilted, but the judgment still stands
against him.
Miss Koran says that at the time she
loaned the money she was supporting an
aged mother and her deceased sisters chill
dren When Jeffries left Denver she was
in utter poverty and was cast upon the
town for charity. She says that she wrote
many letters TO Jeffries while he was living
in New York and in California, In
which she threatened to make life
burden to him unless he paid up. <
mas letter from him in which he admits
owing the entire amount claimed. but
says that unless she ceases to write threat,
ening letters he will never paw a cent. and
that II he ever does pay up he will deduct
the amount he paid an attorney to defend
MIN from charges which she caused to he
brought against him.
ABOUT six weeks ago Miss Koran. who
knew that Jeffries was living with his
family at Kent. wrote him that she was
coming to Washington to either collect
the money due her or make life burden
TO him. She left Denver a month ago to-
day. coming direct to Seattle. Since that
time she has been huctuating between
Seattle, Tacoma and Kent On Nav
IL she called on Mrs. JefTries
at Kent and found that Jeffries had left
the state; she was told that he had gone
10 cheyenne. She proceeded to make it
warm around the Jeffries' mansion and a
warrant was sworn out by Mrs Jeffries for
her arrest upon charge of threatening to
DO great bodily harm. She went to Ia
coma, then came to Seattle and yester-
day again visited Kent. She was
seized upon her arrival. given a
hearing before Ju1 Zee Greenleaf.
was ordered to furnish bonds to keen the
peace, brought to this city by Constable
c. II. Guerbson and then locked up in the
county Jail.
taS&
known that it was her intention to force
Jeffries to speedy payment and was fur.
nished with letters of recommendation
from fifteen or twenty residents of that
city. Among these are John r. Hanna. for
fifteen years banker on Sixteenth street.
Drs. H. Kimball, w. Edmundson, 0. J.
Pfeiffer and Daniel Hingley, president
and treasurer of the Economy Mining and
Milling company, and Charles z. Cleave.
a capitalist. The letter from Mr.. HingIey
is especially condemnatory of Jeffries. and
reads as follows.
To Whom II Nay Concern:
/ have been acquainted with Miss Maggie
Koran for several years aud take pleasure in ties.
tifying to her high moral worth aud integrity.
She is an honest, upright and reliable woman,
in whom every confidence can be placed
know her to have been basely defrauded by
II. G. Jeffries. For many years she has been the
sole support of an invalid mother and de-
ceased sisters children, and. in such a position,
il is doubly hard for her to sustain such a loss
OF money as Jeifries has subjected her to. ANY
favor or Kindness shown to her will be appre-
ciated by hosts OF her friends in Denver.
The letter from Mr.. Cleave reads as fol-
lows:
have known Miss Maggie Koran about four
years and can speak OF her character as well as
her industry. She has suffered a great wrong
from one who should have been her friend, and
l hope she will yet get what belongs TO her.
MissHoran, who is past the age of work,
SAYS that she reckons she will have to stav
in jail for year unless the justice who
placed her under bonds chooses to reverse
his decision.