The sun., 1901-09-03
SENSATION IN LONDON
Philadelphia Woman Accused Of 0
$5OO,000 Forgery.
WAS DEALING IN STOCKS.
Her Health Is Very Poor, and Hei
Counsel Intimntes That She has
uesn d Victim of Tempo
rnry Insanity.

London, Sept 2. Marie Josephine
Eastwick Of Philadelphia was arraign'
ed in the Guild Hall police court dur
ing the day charged with having fore
ed a railway certificate of the value OF
100000. Sensational evidence was
presented.
The defendant, who ls Of slight build
and apparently belonging to the middle
class, was somewhat shabbily dressed.
She was accommodated with q chair
and sat the whole time listlessly In the
dock.
The public prosecutor said the de-
fendant had been residing In England
for eighteen months and was believed
to be I'm American of wealth. she hau
been living with persons, said to be her
father and sister, at the Metropole,
London, and had been coaching through
England and living generally In the
most expensive manner. Latterly sDe
had removed to Hampstead for the
benefit of her health.
She obtained an introduction to Mr..
Beeton, member of the Stock Ex-
change. to whom the defendant repre-
sented herself to be the owner OF Sc
curities worth, roughly, 100000. She
! said she wanted to buy a thousand
j shares of United States Steel corpora
! ton as a speculation. This operation
required f1,O00, which, the defendant
4 said, she did not have, but as she
/ wanted to invest Immediately she told
J MIR. BeetOn she had to cable to trust
company In Philadelphia to break open
/ her strong box and forward the money
to her by mail. She added that the
trustees telegraphed to her refusing to
! do so until they had possession of her
key.
| The defendant Aug. IL went to the
Chnring Cross branch of the Credit
I Lyonnais and asked the manager to
buy two shares Of Canadian Pacific
railroad The manager took the order,
but aftcrward found it difficult to get
so small Il number of shares and wrote
to the defendant ut the Red Lion hotel.
Henley. asking If he would be allowed
to get five or ten shares. AS result
five shares were bought Aug. 10, and
The defendant duly sent her check.
Wanted Loan an G. II. II. shares.
She wrote to Mr.. Beeton Aug. II
from Stratford-on- Avon, saying she ex'
pected II thousand Canadian Pacific
shares from New York and wanted a
loan On them, az she WAS deSirous OF
buying more United States Steel. Mr
Bceton replied that he did not think
there would be any difficulty in raising
loan on such security. She received
certificate for five Canadian Pacific
shares Aug. III. The prosecutor said
that by Aug. 2d the certificate hac
been altered, the name of the orlgina
holder had been erased, and the name
Of Marie Josephine Eastwick had beer
substituted. The five" in the number
of shares and tho numerals had al
been altered so that II appeared to be q
certificate for thousand instead OF
five shares. This was skillfully done
three kinds of type and ink being
used showing considerable prepara
ton. The only mistake was that the
; document bore shilling revenu,
stamp instead Of one for fl0, which 9
certificate for u thousand shares slloull
carry.
. The defendant sent the altered docu
:. mrnt, with letter, TO Mr.. Beeton Aug
, 81, asking him TO buy Il thousand Unit
;, ed States shares IN the firm name: ais,
requesting Il loan OF E4.0OO, adding tlla
, she WAS going in for motor ears rather
;, heavily ana was about to purchase &
, stud fnrm.
The defendant wired Mr.. Bector
. from Buxton Aug. 2S, asking If thu
:, certificate had arrived In the mean
! while Mr.. Brrtons clerk, on receiving
+, the certificate, noticed the stamp irreg
ularity and went to the Canadian Pa
ciiic railroad office, where II was pro
nonncrd a forgery
The testimony Of Mr.. Beeton and
others was heard, generally sustaining
I the prosecutors statement. 4 detec
: tive said the defendant told him tlla,
4 she had practically no defense.
The defendant was remandrd until
Srpl. 8. Size will lie afforded sprcia
= privileges on account OF the poor stat,
/ Of her health and will he examined h,
; doctors. Her counsel intimatrd that
, the prisoner was suffering from tenn
. porary Insanity Her father said ht
could not explain matters al present
but everything would come out al
right.