A. TOO CONFIDING" WIDOW.

Temuka Leader, Issue 9425, 1 July 1882, Page 3

A. TOO CONFIDING" WIDOW.

At the Surrey Sessions, Henry Marchant, alias Edward Powley, 29, was charged with stealing a watch and chain and various other articles, the property of Eliza Triraby, a widow, of Dorking. It was stated that the prisoner called upon the prosecutrix on Jan. 25 last, and obtained lodgings. No sooner had he gained admission than he professed to fall desperately in love with his landlady, and ou the following Sunday she consented to be his bride. On the second day after his arrival the prisoner, representing that he was a jeweller in a good way of business, having a box in the parcel office of Guildford Station, containing £l,lOO worth of jewellery, which she was to get from him, succeeded day by day in obtaining money from the widow until he received in the whole £24. During this time they lived on the most intimate terras. One day the prisoner sent her to Guildford to obtain £lO, said to be due to him. She started at ten o’clock in the morning, and soon found that she had gone on a fool’s errand. When she returned at five o’clock in the evening the front door was locked and the key was given to a neighbor. The prisoner was nowhere to be seen, but she missed her late husband’s watch and chain, and shirts and other articles. She applied to the police, but was told she must herself find the man’s whereabouts. After searching all over the country she found him at Hyde-hill, Sunbridge, Kent, where he was living comfortably with his wife and child. She obtained a warrant for him and the articles were found in his possession. The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to six month?’ imprisonment with hard labor.