The Herald of Wales. — 1887-08-06 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE FRAUDS BY A PSEUDO CAPTAIN IN SWANSEA A CAREER OF CRIME. HEAVY SENTENCE.  The next was that known as the Swansea "Jeremy Diddler " ease, in which James Theodore Paget (82), described as a mariner, was indicted for unlawfully and knowingly by means of certain false pretence' obtaining from me Georgia& Pearson, certain goods, to wit, four boxes of cigars, two pipes, one pouch, one match box, one cigarette caw, and a quantity of tobacco, of the value of £8 10e., and a banker's cheque for the payment of Lf., of the monies, good', and chatieh§ of the said Georgina Pearson, with intent thereby to defraud her of the same, at Swansea, on the 18th of May, 1887. Prisoner pleaded guilty. Hie lordship, is passing sentence, said the prisoner had pleaded guilty to a clear ease of obtaining money by false pretences. It was a misdemeanour, and he was glad to be able to say a miedemeanourfor which he was able to give a sentence of more than the ordinary length of time; that was to say, in most misdemeanours his Ipower wee limited to two years' imprisonment with hard labour, but this being false pretencee the statute had enlarged his power to a sentence of five years' penal servitude, and that was the sentence he passed upon the prisoner. This was the prisoner's history. In 1876, he was coneicted on four changes of forgery, and received a sentence of five years' penal servitude, passing at that time under the name .4 James Themes Wilson. Afterwards, and not h.ng, probably, after he had come out of prison, he was convicted of fraud and received 18 month's imprisonment, appearing then in the name of George Harry. He now stood at the bar with the aristocratic' name of James Theodore Paget. He had been guilty of a eerie, of frauds. Under these circumstances, the legislatl. n had given him the power in certain cases to lass sentenoe of five yearsimprisonment, and the present was just one of those eases. Prisoner said nothing, and was taken quietly below. Mr. David Lewis gulled that the sum of £7 lie Bd., and the various articles found .. . ,  upon the prisoner, be returned to Mice Pearson,l the plosecutrix, and tbe Judge granted the application. Mr. Lewis then asked for the payment of the expenses incurred in the apprehension of the prieoner at Notting. am. His Lordship : Under what statute have I the power? Tell me to-morrow. Of course it will take you some time to find it out, but when you have found the statute, I will oonaider the question. (Laughter.) 1 A young woman, of respectable and rather prepossessing appearance, on being called upon, charged with feloniously and unlawfully attempting to kill and murder one Mary Jane Jonee, at MerYhyr Tydfil, on the 12th May, pleaded guilty without hesitation, but the judge declined to take the plea that night. The jury threw out the bill against Elizabeth Hart, &has " Lizzie Squint" (37), indicted for stealing £l7 and a purse from the person of George Maylin,at Swansea, on the 3rd of July last, and also threw out the bill against Evan Harris, hawker, charged with stealing certain money and 'unary articles from David Jones, at Heath, on the 18th July. The negro cook Victor Boilea charged at the Swansea Police Court the other day, with wounding with • knife one Lars Wahland at sea on the "Epsilon" on the 17th May pleaded guilty, and will receive sentence to-morrow. The court adjourned until the next day at 10.30.