Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-07-20

tbem from the task. They
rrotch.-i her more keehiy than ever
md following the widow one cay to
hopse in the north OF London, discov-
oraa the deceased" an m.ch mouined
husband alive ana Well
o,,a swindler begetS another. watts,
,ra,dulent clerk of the Globe As
.,ronca office. was at once initiated by
Robson and Redpath. watts was
Young and trusted clerk VINO devised
an ingenious plan Of classifying MS EN-
nIovers' books In manner which ena-
k,oJ him to embezZle huge sums. While
no was receiving a salary OF only f200
a year he was keeping up hne house
IN tho west end and mansion at
Brighton, at both OF winch Ne enter
tanned lavishly His wines We're or the
best. and he retained one or the most
| famous French cooks to superintend
the preparation of the banquets at
which he dazzIed hosts of envious
puests He was a patron of actors
and impecunious literary and artistic
persons. BY the time his frauds were
discovered he had embezzled no less
than 10000. He was tried. found
guilty and sentenced to ten years penal
servitude. The same night he hanged
himself in his cell.
Robson. a clerk in the employ OF the
Crystal Palace company, Ssrdeterred
by Watts fate, Initiated his frauds and
his reckless extravaganza. He haSlaId-
hands on and spent f27, ZOO when his
career was closed with a sentence Of
twenty years penal servitude. Only
fortnight after Robson's conviction an
other fmitator of Watts was detected
In Lionel Redpath. His punishment
was the awful one Of lifelong inpris-
Dnment
The theft of the body of Alexander
Stewart ia. New York in 1873 was im-
tated In 1881 In Scotland by a gang OF
villains who stole the body of the Earl
Of Crawford from it's resting place, In
the family mausoleum at Dunecht. The
perpetrators Of this CHASTITY deed per-
formed 1t In wonderful manner. The
body Of the earl, he having died In TIA
ly, had been embalmed and placed i'm
three collins. The inner one was, OF
Italian wood, the second ease was OF
lead and the cutter one Of oak. Thus
secured the body was consigned to the
family mausoleum, the entrance tor
which was covered with fagstones,.
over which was thick layer of mold,
set with grass and flowers. The
thieves. breaking through every obsta-
ele, distracted thebody and bore 1t of.
For more than q year no ciew to either
the missing body or to the perpetrators.
of the crime was discovered. Then an
old poacher related how be had seen
men commit the robbery
They had, he declared, sworn him,
with terrible threats, to secrecy. and
he had till now held his tongue in ter
ror. He pointed out the spot in the
wood where they had hidden the body,
and the corpse was found buried there,
wrapped in some thick blankets. The
old poacher- was himself accused OF
having had hand In the deed and,
being placed on trial, was found guilty.
receiving sentence of five years pc
nal servitude instead OF the reward he
had anticipated
The multilations of cattle for which
the young solicitor Edalji WIS, upon
evidence that most people who had
studied the case considered very in
conclusive, sent to penal servitude
were initiated by wretches in many
parts Of the country Whether the ter
rible Whitechapel murders known as
the Jack tire Ripper" crimes, were all
the work of one man or of man and
his imitators is doubtful point in de-
tective circles.