The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-06-05
LEYSHON AND HIS FRIENDSHIP.
Mrs. Margaret Henry Explains
Her Dealings With Him.
An Interesting Examination of q
Forgery Charge.
A Sister OF the Compi aiming Witness,
Infatuated with the Defendant,
stands by Him-The Tsstt-
mony Interesting.

afternoon before Justice Bartholomew.
The defendant is a heavy-set, bald
headed man, seemingly about AZ years
OF age. The charge against him grows
out of his relations with Mrs. Margaret
Henry, a teacher in the public schools,
and her family. If their testimony
shows anything 1t demonstrates that
Leyshon Is an individual who has preyed
upon the credulity of inexperienced
women to replenish his collapsed pocket
book, while protesting in dulcet tones
his disinterested friendship.
He lived in the family, and one OF the
accusations against him is that he forged
the name of Mrs.. Henry to the following
order, with intent to defraud the Ma
tional Bank of California:
Los ANGELES, CAL, March %, 1894.
Frederick Teale, Esq, City Auditor:
Please pay to j. q. Levshon or order
my warrant for the month of April.
1894, amount $3.50.
Mrs. MAGGIE HENRY.
The following Enforcement was on the
back: J. G. Leyshon. Pay N. O.
Garfield $50 OF the money when col
lected and when / am with him.
]. G.. LEYsHoN.
Also the following order, with intent
to delraud H. L. Yerger:
Los ANGELES, April 4. 1894.
Frederick Teale, Esq, City Auditor:
Please pay to ]. G. Leyshon. or order,
my warrant for the month of April.
Amount one hundred and twenty dol
lars ($l20). MRS. MAGGIE HENRY.
1t is said that he also borrowed $92 on
a promissory note to AL j. Graham, dep
uty sheriff, to which the names OF Mrs.
Maggie Henry and himself are signed.
and which Mrs. Henry eaid yesterday
she had signed.
1t is upon the AL Graham note that
he lie now being examined, the other
complaints not having yet been reached.
The prosecution claims that he kept the
genuine note for 1872, and gave Mr.. Ora
ham forged note; that afterwards
when confronted by Mrs. Henry he pro-
duced the note and gave it in trust to a
Mr.. Guyger. who negotiated the loan
with Graham, telling Mrs. Henry that
he had signed her name and he would
take his medicine.
Leyshon admits the signature to the
order of March 28th, claiming that he
had signed Mrs. Henry's name before
and she had made no objection, and he
thought he was authorized to sign it.
This is the line of defense he has
adopted.
The prosecution was conducted yes.
terday by District Attorney Dillon, and
the defense by Gus G. Peck. The first
witnesses examined were directed to
showing by Mrs. Henry that she had not
signed the note and had not authorized
the defendant to sign it. The examina--
ton nroeaadad in humdrnm way until
Mrs. Henry was recalled to testify as to
the AL Graham note, which she saw
Leyshon turn over to Mr.. Guyger at the
Sisters' hospital. where Leyshon was
suffering from broken leg.
Under the DISCRIMINATION by Mr..
Peck Mrs. Henry was called upon to ex-
press the state OF her feelings towards
the defendant, and this led to a very
energetic recital by her OF the reasons
why she would not believe Mr.. Lsyshon.
1t was listened to very closely by those
present, and especially by her sister,
Miss Nellie CLARK, young lady in blue,
who is engaged to the baldhesded de-
iendant, much to the distress OF her
aged mother.
When Mrs. Henry, in answer to a
question as to her age, flushed up and
said she was about AZ. Miss Clark
laughed scornfully and hitched her chair
nearer the defendant and away frem the
members OF her family.
II will tell you why doubt Mr.. Ley
shon," said Mrs. Henry, who ia an ex-
ceptionally refined and pleasant-facsd
lady. II became acquainted with him
in Colorado several years ago. He be-
came intimate with our family and
when he came to Los Angeles he finally
made his home at our house, He re-
turns occasionally to Colorado. He has
been living with US since about 1890 or
1891. The fret occasion had to doubt
Mr.. Leyshon was when he took sl100 of
my money and invested it in an oil COM
pany in Colorado. He would tell me
from time to time the shares were in
creasing in value. But found that no
such company ever existed, and Mr..
Leyehon got that money.
"The next reason Is that he bought
some furniture for new home bought,
from Bailey & Barker'e. He told me it
amounted to over $500. Afterwards l
went to the furniture men and found
that the purchase only amounted to
$3.50. l have just recently received a
bill from them for balance of over $50,
but they have given me two years
lease. What did Mr.. Leyshon do with
this money!"
Mr.. Peck affected to be delighted with
the recital OF Mrs. Henry, but Mr.. Ley
shon's bald pate grew red as che re-
ferred to various reasons why his YER
acity should be doubted.
Upon being pressed for other reasons
Mrs. Henry began to speak of Mr.. Ley
shon's relationship to her sister. She
had said he is engaged to her, much to
the anxiety OF all the family, and would
have spoken of various things with
which Leyshon is charged, but the
court stopped that line OF inquiry.
Mr.. Peck tried to get Mrs. Henry to
say that che and the defendant were
partners in the purchase and shipment
of fruit, out che said ehe had given him
money to invest for her as friend OF
her own and OF the family; but it was
her own money and he WAS to receive
no recompense.
of the questions, and she said that at no
time was there any arrangement by
which he was to share any profits that
might accrue. 1t had been all loss as
far as she was concerned. She only
knew that Leyshon told her be had in
vested the money, and her intimation
WAS that that money had stuck to his
fingers like the other sums she had re-
ferred to.
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