A FICKLE MAN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1584, 14 October 1905, Page 4

A FICKLE MAN.

“THE LAND WHERE DICK SEDDON HOLDS SWAY.”

London, September 9. The Chief Constable of Chester told a strange story the other day, when a shop assistant named Thomas Aubrey Griffiths was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for having stolen JSS6 from his employers. Griffiths, it was stated, stole the money from a safe, and then went to Chester and Blackpool. He appears to have been of an amorous nature, and he was very successful in his love affairs, so successful indeed that he was engaged to four girls at one time. He had actually arranged to be married to two of them, and the wedding days had been duly fixed. All the material for the bride's trousseau to be used at this first wedding had been stolen by Griffiths. The date for the other wedding was the day before his appearance in Court, and his victim had made every preparation for the ceremony. In his effort to finance this event the prisoner obtained the key of his employer’s safe and stole the sum of £56. His complicated position,,with two affianced brides on his hands at the same time, compelled him to change his quarters, and accordingly he fled suddenly to Manchester. He had in the meantime arranged for a honeymoon tour to New Zealand. While in Manchester Griffiths still remembered all his four betrothed' ones, and sent presents of jewellery to to each one with the inscription “ Thine for eyer,” and so on. Copies of letters which he had sent to his different sweethearts were discovered among his corres“ pondence. In one of these he wrote “Soon we shall be in the land where Dick Seddon holds sway, darling. He, too, was a Lancashire man.” However, as events turned out, all the plans were frustrated, and Griffiths is now in, prison as the result of helping himself to £56 of his employer’s money to pay for the trousseau of one of the prospective brides. —N.Z. Herald.