EXTRAORDINARY FRAUDS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 363, 14 January 1880, Page 2

EXTRAORDINARY FRAUDS.

• Amainamed Charles Phillipson hat "■• been arrested in London on several : ] charges of fraud, there-being no fewer than eleven warrants out against him. The principal information was sworn to by Miss Agnes Edith Jones, a lady living at 24, Albert street,. Mornington Crescent, from which it appeared the prisoner was a teacher of music living in Colville square, Kensington Park, in the year ", 1874 He had been on friendly terms with her and her family, and had often given advice with reference to the invest- J ment .of moneys. In November, 1874, ' J she, conjointly with her sister, held East M Indian Peninsular Railway stock to the fl value of £2IBO. She'received a letter M from the prisoner, with reference to it, and fl at a subsequent interview he advised her a to dispose of that stock, and' have the I money invested in more desirable securi- « ties. He wa.B eventually entrusted to sell ' ' it, and to invest the proceeds in whatever he might consider best. He sold the stock,- and the necessary transfer was signed by the two sisters. He afterward on different occasions bought Rusft»X Dominion of Canada, Republic of Chili, and other bonds amounting to over £2OOO which were entrusted to .him, with instructions to deposit them at hii bankers for safe keeping. A cheque for £456 was handed to the prisoner by the' informant with instructions to invest the same on her sole account to the best of his ability. He advised its investment in bonds. He paid tho dividend on the various securities as it became due, but on going to his house in Clarendon Gardens, Maida Vale in May last, she found that he had absconded, and that a man was in possession under a bill of sale. Enquiries were made at Messrs Williams, Deacon.and Co.'sand it was found that the bonds, had never been deposited there, and that no one of the prisoner's name was known as a customer. Inspector Butcher, Criminal Investigation Department, Scotland Yard, deposed that he had held the'warrant* }or prisoner's'arrest, and went to Worthing for purpose of. executing them. He found him at the address given, carrying on his profession as a teacher of music, under the'name of Walter Pwce, Witnen first saw his wife, but on seeihg the prisoner he said, "Your name is Philipsbn, I believe ?" He was very much surprised and sinking into a chair said, "Why do you ask,' who are -you f Witness told him he was an inspector of the police, and held eleven warrants for, his arrest, He asked whom they concerned, . Witness ,! mentioned the name of Miss Jones among yi others, andread the warrants over to *' '« him. At his request his wife'was ; pre* sent at the time. He made no reply to the charge, but turning to his wife, he said, (l will you forgive me? What I have done I have done for the benefit of the ' child, and you know I intended to make reparation." He said Miss Jones would have done better hot to put it in .the hands of the police as he would have made it all right in time. In taking leave of his wife and child he said: " Good-bye, my dears, you will not see me for a long time." He was then brought to London and charged.

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