"The Land Where Dick Seddon Holds Sway"

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7951, 14 October 1905, Page 4

"The Land Where Dick Seddon Holds Sway"

JN 2 Herald (Jorrvspondot:;. t j VSar.pt. iVi * The C In. 1 Con-h at)),- of I'liister toltT a strung, „feU, ; i; ilav, when a slxjrj> ufeSiWaiitHiuhit-ff Thmiias Aiibrey Ori/liths was sentenced to three months imprisonment for having s||._ leiijj-.iti Horn his .employers. (iritliths it was sLated. stole tile money from a safe, ami then went to Clu-ster anil Ulackpool. Ili; appears to have bmi 311 amorous nature, mill lie Has very successful in his love affairs, so successful indeed thai he was ensjag--«f tn four girls al rue time. Ilelutd actually arranged to lie married to two of then:, and the wedding days had been duly fixed. All the material for the bride's trosseau te be. used at theiirst Wedding- had bivn stolen by (Jriltiths. The dale for the other wedding was the day before his appearance in igourt, and his victim hud made every preparation for the ceremony. In his effort to tinancc this event the prisoner obtained 1 lio key to his employer's safe, and stole the sum of i-.V>. llis complicate*! position. with two affianced brides on his | hands at tire same time, compel!*,, ihitn to change his quarters, amf ao- ! cordingly he AH suddenly tc Mnnchester. lie hrifl in th-o iiu-ant intv> arrang- ! ed for a honeymoon tour to Knt : Zealand. While in Manchester'he still '. rnnemlwmi -all his four iwthnvtfied -ones, and sent presents of jewellery ito each one with tire inscription "for lever Thine,''* and so on.' Copies of j jlelters which lie -had 'sent io 'his different sweethearts were discovered '•among-his correspondence. In oiic of these he wrote "Soon .we shall tie in tile lam! where Dick Seddonv holds sway, darling. . He, too, was « Jt*mta.shi.rc inafi." lltfwuver, as ovijnts turned cut, all live plans wen* frus-, jrated. and drilliths is now 111 jirisim its the result of helping' -himself . to loli ,01 his employer'h luomiy (o pny (or the ,trousseau of me of tile prospective brides. I _