The herald., 1894-11-11

consequence OF the manipulations in
which he had been indulging. He got
deeper and deeper in the mire and
norndered uuavailingly to extricate
himself.
when the full extent of the decep tions
he practiced on the Clark family became
evident during the preliminary exam
ination, it was matter for wonderment
that there could be woman 80 crsdu.
lous as they proved to be, under the
smooth scheming OF their so-callsd
friend.
The Clark family lived in Colorado be.
fore coming to California, and there
became acquainted with ]. G. Leyshon.
His manners were very pleasant, though
his head was bald. At that time he was
married.
Mrs. CLARK, Miss Maggy Henry and
Miss Nellie Clark took an interest in
Leyshon, and the two families were on
terms OF friendship.
1t was not long after Mrs. Clark end
her daughters moved to Los Angeles
that they were visited by Leyshon. His
manners were still pleasant, and he in
gratiated himself SO cunningly into the
good graces of these ladies that it was
only natural that he should succeed in
having an invitation extended to him by
them to make their home his home.
His financial condition was naturally
known to them and the ladies took
much pleasure in assisting their friend
in his temporary embarrassment.
Leyshon went away, but came back
and made his home with the Clark fam
lily. He took an active part in all their
plans, and was made as much of by
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in their home, as if he was blood re-
lation.
This little family was an ambitious
one. Their main reliance was on Mrs.
Maggie Henry, a cultivated, charming
woman. She was a competent teacher,
and her salsry was sufficiently large to
admit of laying by some of it. 1t be-.
came hobby with Mrs. Henry to in =
crease her worldly position and that OF
her mother and sister by every means in
her power, and naturally it was q sub.
ject of frequent discussion, in which
Leyshon participated.
With the spirit OF fend in his heart
and words of encouragement on his
lips, Leyshon little by little wound up
this affairs of his friends in inextricable
confusion.
He undertook small commissions for
Mrs. Henry and, always under the guise
of friendship, got her to embark in little
speCulations, which soon ate up her saw
ings. The woman knew very little about
methods Of doing business, The execu.
tion of notes and the drawing UP busi-
ness papers, business dealings and such
things were matters upon which they
had little practical knowledge.
Yet knowing all thie IA Tavahon
must have known it, he gradually had
notes floating around. some of which
Mrs. Henry signed end others he signed
himself. That is, he signed her name
to them. assuring her it was all right.
The fellow was implicitly trusted by the
family and it was such an easy matter to
separate them from their money that he
must have smiled in his moral agri-
cultural operations many times over the
soft enap he had.
Before his arrsst he had succeeded in
getting Mrs. Henry to invest some
$ll00 in mythicsl coal company in the
east. in getting her to invest in fruit
transactions which he told her turned
out badly. and in getting her to pawn
her jewelry to raise money for him. Ir
addition to this he had made free use of
Mrs.. Henry's name in floating bits OF
commercial paper.
Last. but not least, be had been the
means of causing much grief and anguish
to the venerable Mrs. CLARK BY the
e>dnence he had obtained over her