Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-13
EMBEZZLEa WEEKS INDICTED

He is In Costa H1ca Where Detectives Will be Sent to Bring Him Back to This COuntry-Reticence in Wash-
 ington.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 12 The grand jury to-day indicted Francis H. Weeks, the law yer of this city, who had charge of various trust funds, and found true bill against him for the embezzlement of various sums of money. The total amount of Weeks appropriations aggregates $1 BOO, 900. He may yet be also indicted on the charge of forgery.
 All the facts in the case of Weeks rob bery of women and children will now be forwarded to Secretary of State Gresham at Washington by the district attorney, together with 8 request that formal appli- cation be made by the United States gov ernment to the authorities at Costa Rica for Weeks surrender to the officers of the United States government for extradition to this country. Detectives will be sent from police headquarters to convey the sb- sconding trustee back to this city after the United States minister to Costa Rtca has presented the application in due form be- | fore the government of Costa Rics, where | the embezzler sought shelter from the | consequences of his crimes.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 "A consistent ! reticence Is maintained at the state depart | ment concerning the case of Francis H. \ Weeks, the defaulting lawyer of New York ! city, who has been located in Costa kics. | It Is admitted that the department does not ! know that Weeks Is under arrest, and this is perfectly true, for the United States | minister reported that he was under sur | veillance at San Jose.
 When copies of indictments against him have been received from District Attorney Nicoll they will be sent to the government of Costa Rioa with a formal request for Weeks' extradition. Owing to the absence of an extradition treaty with that country the only hope for bringing him back to New York lies in the disposition of the Costa Rican government to oblige the | United States.
 Recently the government of Argentins
 refused to extradite a criminal from this country because the United States would
 not promise to reciproeate in the extrsdi
 ton law. If Costa Rica agrees to extra
 dite Weeks only on condition that fugitives
 from that country to the United State. ! will be arrested and returned on demand
 this government may be obliged to refuse
 and in that case Weeks may go free. | FACTORIES START UP. ' Ine FOEce tne wa SAOp tO 1 II Increased at Once-Reduction O N Wages i'm Mills.
 LAWRENCE, Mass, Sept. 12.-The wors
 ted yarn department of the Washington
 mill started up this morning after bein
 closed down for about g month. Tn
 weaving department will open on Friday
 This will give employment to large nun
 Der. There Is 8 general reduction ot 1 per cent. in wages, which has been accep, ed.
 WooNsocKET, R. l., Sept. 12--Notice
 have been posted in the Social, Nourse an
 Globe mills, all cotton, of 8 reduction i . wages to take effect September 1S. Th
 amount of the reduction is not stated The Grosvenordale company of Grosvenol T. dale, Conn, has posted notices of redu' s, tion of 10 per cent. in wages, beginnin d September IS.
 t BRocKroN, Macs Sept. 1s.-For tt
 three months ending September 1 u
 shipments from this city aggregate 91 A
 cases, which falls below the shipments
 the corresponding weeks of 1891 and 1S9
 In 1899 the shipments for the same weel
 footed up 91 ,846 casss. and in 1891 9S,4I }, cases. The shipments up to date, howeve " show an increase over the two previo,
 years, even in the face of the present buf v ness depression.
 WALTHAA, Mass, Sept. 12.-The for 8 men of the American Waltham Watt
 company have orders to increase the fer
 by 100 at once, and it is expected to ha
 the factory running full in 8 month.