The evening world., 1893-11-09
WEEKS'S Term BEGUN
he Started This Morning for His
Years in q Cell
StiI Courteous and Ready to Dis
cuss His Ventures.
Only Occasionally DID His Mind
Turn to Gloomy Thoughts.

Francis Henry Weeks was taken to
Sin Sing Prison this morning by Dep
pty Sheriff Burke. The man who was
wont to handle millions OF dollars in
trust funds. was looked upon as an
unright man. n leader in refined and In
tellectual society. a lawyer Of frst-class
abilities, will sleep in a gloomy cell in
the prison by the river tonight, and
the narrow confines OF this Chateau DIFF
will be his home for the next six and a
half years.
His term OF sentence is ten years. but
good behavior and observance OF the
rules OF the prison, will entitle him 70 a
Communication OF three and one-half
years. Then he will be a free man
again. But a new century will have be-
gun. The United States will have had
two new Presidents; the city of New
York will rave added another half
million to It's population; Francis II.
Weeks will be ffty-hve years old and
more. and the faithful wife who has
shared his prosperity. his troubles, his
sorrows. she. too. will have aged.
Perhaps these wer the reflections OF
that tall. handsome, well-po!sed man. as
he gazed out OF a Fourth venue car
window into space this morning as the
car rolled nw-ar towards his future
prison home.
Weeks ate heartily OF the breakfast
by the Tombs caterer this morning, but
he had slept little last night, and there
were traces OF swelling under his yes
and a haggard look about his face. He
was scrupulously neat in his appear
ance, however, when he, emerged from
the Tombs at s3C o'clock following
Deputy Sheriff Brown.
The deputies considerately re-
Trained from Handwriting the mar
peoples money in speculation, and
4 Weeks walked erect and buOyant be-
tween them. He was dressed in a dag;
brown trousers. He wore a gray over
coat and a black derby hat. Under his
arm he carried a small paper parcel.
had informed him he would be permitted
In the car a dozen newspaper men
pers. He struggled hard to appear at
ease, but occasionally his thoughts
would evidently turn upon his situation.
He gladly welcomed the arrival at the
GRAND Central station: snd The security
mediate passage out to the train
which would not start in half an hour.
Few people recognized the embezzler
in the tidy gentleman with the two big
the Court-House. Burke went on with
Weeks in the smoker, Weeks smoking
4 the last Havana he will enjoy In the
4 nineteenth century.
Weeks refused to talk about his case.
He was very pleasant and courteous,
u strange infatuation that wrecked him ne
said regarding the West Superior Iron
and Steel Company:
."Tha is bound to be a grand success
and a great. money-maker II II is man
aged properly. OF course. / am out OF
I IL, and my interests in II are In the
and OF the assignee for the benefit OF
my creditors"
The 10000 check stubs in weeks's
twenty-seven check books, show that In
the past eight years he had been con
q stantly drawing money from the bank
where his own fortune and the for
in his keeping. were deposited together,
show that he had checked over hundreds
of thousands OF dollars to sink in that
miserable bonanza" Of his imagination.
the West Superior Company.
The books show beyond question that
the embeZzled funds were sunk in those
enterprises, and that Weeks himself did
not profit by the losses Of the widows
Z n the orphans.
IS Down to a year ago he had constantly
a lea tbe f SsiSSee to sta h = Sre sht,n N oI AK
/, 1888, it was 5000. April % he drew
the, last check to the West Superior
ignis fatuus. It was for 500, April
u ~ the last check was drawn. It was
for $500, payable to Francis ii. Weeks.
H IL was probably taken for use in esCap-
ing from the clutches OF the law, and
he ran away NAV l last.
1t left a miserable .12s,6O in the bank
out OF the $3.50. 600 balances OF old.
Weeks provided himself with a pipe
n tobacco yesterday. Joe Burke told
him that Warden Durston and Principa'
nave meee eIgars atq sfinE Sing NOUN and M" he win syr h Tn,
solace In his dismal cell from the pipe
Of consolation.
Weeks will be held over him, and II il
be discovered that he is a deliberate,
~coolheahed scoundrel, instead OF a spec,
ulator in the property OF others; If # b.
found that instead OF sinking This money
In an enterprise from which he expected
its return. he has hidden the fortunes
punished on the other indictments when
this term OF sentence is completed.
Mrs. Weeks babe farewell TO her hus
tts a brave woman. When he returned
from the court chambers to the room
where she waited for him. she advance
ed and a sublime smile of encourage
ment on her face.
well. what is IT? Ten years." sh,
asked, sweetly. And when ne nswcre
yes. she said, simply:
81 expected as much"
Then they said their farewells in w<his
drawing to the far corner Of the room
SING SING. n y, Nov. J-Francls II
\ Weeks, the millionaire dcfaultrr. ar
rived here on the noon train. He was
\ at once taken to the prison and turncG
over to the custody OF Warden DurstJn
Weeks had his pedigree entered In n,
Z clerks office after which he Vas taken
10 the barber shop. where his hair va.
i closely cropped and his mustache shave,
n off, He was then compelled 10 take
Il bath and don the regulation COrVic
4 igarb.
Warden Durston has not yet decide
where he viii put Weeks 70 work, bu
kA NH hANL ~ Itch 100
ployment, as physically. he is untt'r.
ID for hard work.