The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-04
RETURN OF A FORGER
Francis III. Weeks, the AbscOnd-
ing Lawyer, Behind the Bars.
Committed to the TOmbs on His Arrival
at New York from Central America
His Personal Appearance.

NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-Francis II Weeks,
the absconding lawyer and forger, is here.
He arrived in this city shortly before !
o'clock and was Immediately taken to po-
lice headquarters, where he passed some
time in giving his pedigree and other inter-
esting details to Superintendent Byrnes.
Later the police took him TO the district
attorneys office. He asked for time to
plead. Judge MARITIME committed him to
the TombS for one week. Nothing was
said about bail. The train on which Mr..
Weeks returned was the Richmond & Dan
vile Southern express. AS soon as the
engine was sighted coming through the
yard there was a general rush down the
platform on the part of a large crowd
of persons who had gathered to witness
the arrival of the embezzler. a moment
later a man with clean cut face, with
a red beard and wearing a tall silk hat,
alighted, and behind him came Mr. Weeks.
The lawyer has changed his appearance
a great deal since ne left this city. Every
body in the crowd noticed the marked
change in his bearing and dress. His face
was white and sunken. An ill-kept, worse
than scraggling, beard covered his face.
He wore pair of eye glasses adjusted in
a careless fashion. His suit was a dark
material. Both coat and trousers were
wrinkled and dusty though neither looked
so badly as did the light overcoat, which
lightly buttoned about his chest A
small Derby hat, which was probably black
in the earlier days of its history, and
pair of unpublished shoes completed Mr..
WeekS'S attire.
AS soon as the prisoner had alighted
from the car detective Reilly stepped down
behind him, and, together with detective
Trainer, who had come TO meet them at
the train, the party started for the police
headquarters. The majority OF those pres
ent followed Mr. Weeks, but few waited
to see Mrs. Weeks, who had come on in
company with her husband. She left the
train after the other passengers had de-
parted. She, in company with a pleasant
looking woman, who had met her in Phil
adelphia, and whose husband was the
stranger with Mr.. Weeks, drove off in the
direction of Jersey City Heights In the
boat. carriage was there in waiting
Mr.. Weeks, his friend and the two de-
tectives got in and at once the blinds were
drawn up
ures he had enjoyed in the tropics, but
said little about his case. Il have no state
ment to make to the public" he said. Il
have not vet decided whom L shall retain
as counsel in my defense. l shall ask for
copies of the indictments, shall examine
them carefully. and shall prepare myself
to plead on Nov. 10. Arrived at the Tonlbs,
Weeks led the procession into the prison.
He walked erect and briskly, straight
through the corridors and into the prison
itself There he was subjected to the same
catechiSm and same careful search as
though he were the meanest of the cheap
felons at the moment engaged IN tramping
around the elliptical gallery running in
front of the cells on the three tiers above
hallkeeper Frank Smiths desk in answer
to the usual questions Weeks said: My
name is Francis II. Weeks, born in the
United States, forty-nine years old, mar
ried lawyer by occupation, and can read
write"