The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-05

SVAA00S eAANsn AAVAAA SASS SsSS0' lucy
watched her more keenly than ever
and, following the widow" one day to
q house in the north Of London, discov-
cred the deceased" and much mourned
husband alive and well.
One swindlcr begets another. Watts,
the fraudulent clerk Of the Globe AS
surance Office. was at once initiated by
Robson and Redpath. Watts was u
young and trusted clerk who devised
an ingenious plan of falsifying his EN-
ployers' books in q manner which ena-
bled him to embezzle huge sums. While
he was receiving salary Of only 200
a year. he was keeping up fine house
in the west end and mansion at
Brighton, at both of which he enter
tained lavishly. His wines were Of the
best, and he retained one of the most
famous French cooks to superintend
the preparation of the banquets at
which he dazzled hosts of envious
guests He was 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. clerk in the employ Of the
Crystal Palace company. not deferred
by Watts fate, initiated his frauds and
his reckless extravaganza. He had laid
hands on and spent $4,000 when his
career was closed with a sentence Of
twenty years penal servitude. Only q
fortnight after RObsOn's conviction an
other imitator Of Watts was detected
In Lionel Redpath. His punishment
was the awful one of lifelong impris-
onment.
The theft Of the body of Alexander
Stewart in New York in 1878 was imi-
tated In 1881 In Scotland by gang of
villains who stole the body of the Earl
Of Crawford from its 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 Ita-
ly. had been embalmed and placed in
three collins. The inner one was of
Italian wood, the second case was of
lead and the outer one of oak. Thus
secured the body was consigned to the
family mausOleum, the entrance to
which was covered with aagstones,
over which was a thick layer of mold
set with grass and flowers. The
thieves, breaking through every obsta
Gle, abstracted the body and bore it off
For more than year no clew to either
the missing body or to the perpetrators
Of the crime was discovered Then al
old poacher related how he had seer
men commit the robbery.
They had, he declared, sworn him
with terrible threats, to secrecy, ant
he had till now held his tongue in ter
ror. He pointed out the spot in th'
wood where they had hidden the body
and the corpse was found buried there
wrapped in some thick blankets. TIL,
old poacher was himself accused O
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 h,
had anticipated.
The multilations of cattle for whicl
the young solicitor Edalji was. upol
evidence that most people who hat
studied the case considered very in
conclusive, sent to penal servitud,
were initiated by wretches in man,
parts of the country. Whether the ter
rible Whitechapel murders, known a
the "Jack the Ripper crimes, were al
the work of one man or of man an,
bis imitators is doubtful point in de
tactive circles.