The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-01-19

, out proper request from the governor
| OF the state In which the charge is 10 Be
prosecuted.
Governor Utter made the requisitiou
! Monday morning and that evening Mr.,
Barney and Detective OMalley started
| for New York.
Tuesday Chappelle's case was put over
until the coming Friday. that time miehs
he given the Providenoe officer to take
the reduisition paper TO Albany, where it
was 10 be vised by the attorney general.
and. IL found properly prepared, it was
80 be signed by Governor Higgins
There was no delay I'm this inspections
and executive approval. and yesterday
morning Detective O'Malley and Mr.
Barney were again in New York to press
their claim for the custody OF Chappells.
The latter was not in a fighting mood.
He had acknowledged 70 Mr.. Barney that
he took Miss Winterbotham's money, had
used IL and was now sorry that he had
done so.
Giving him time In which -ta-de-se, -Ae
intended to make good the deficit.
Had he not been apprehended Friday
night he would. the next morning have
been on his way to Arizona. where. hs
said. he had valuable mining interests.
II was from this source. probably, that
| he expected and still anticipates realizing
sufficient sum TO reimburse the old
woman, whose estate he Is accused OF
wrecking.
| WAIVED REoUIsITIoN.
| Declining TO take any advantage OF his
rights under the law, he waived the In
tended hearing and voluntarily came back
| TO Rhode Island TO face the charge OF
embezzlement. against which accusation
he had. he said, no intention of making
| a contention
/ The atorv Of
botham financial transactions is briefly
| told.
| Virginia Winterbotham, single, IS years
! old, had inherited three houses on Olney.
/ and two on Camp street, at the north
west corner OF those thoroughfares She
had also inherited valuable stocks and
bonds and a considerable sum OF money,
so that her estate approximated $4,000.
She was extremely close and made few
| confidants. and yet fell undes this
| Establishments OF Julius s. Chappelle.
This was about seven years ago, when
! julius was just arriving at his majority.
He was a rosy-cheeked lad. good look-
| ing and OF pleasant address.
| Chappelle worked in his fathers gro-
| Gerry store, on North Main street, where
Miss winterbotham did a little trading.
AGED WOMAN INFATUATED.
| one day he called at her house and bor--
! two days later informed by Chappelles =
! father that the money was "a good as
| lost, for the boy would never repay her.
| she seemed to have become 20 infatuated
! with julius that she consented to allow
| him to manage her property.
The two houses on Camp street were
| sold. then the valuable collaterals went.
| ana next there was converted the sum OF
| $1,000 which an old friend OF Mrs. Win
| terbothaa,s- had Invested -fer=her In Chit
! cago.
Even after all this had been done tbs
| ola lady was induced by Chappelle TO place
| mortgage upon her 1ast two houses
| that he might make a loan to q friend in
Newport who was financially embawass-
ed.
| Chappelle received the money thus real
| ized and left Miss winterbotham with
| rothing save an equity in the two Olney
| street houses.
During these transactions, which ex-
/ tended over period OF Ave years Chap
| relle was playing with a very dangerous
stock--Amalgsmated Copper and In chas-
| ing that up and down the blackboard he
| US ed up Miss winterbotham's money.
At this iuncture friends who discovered
| that the old and childish woman was be-
I ing imposed upon interested themselves to
have a guardian appointed over her.
Thus n was that the truth came to the
! surface, and why 1t was that the year
and-a-half hunt for Chappelle. which to-
| day reseulted In his being brought before
| the bar OF a court OF Rhode Island 10
plead to tho charge OF embezzlement, was
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