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TYPIST'S LOST *:

LEGACY.

"SCOUNDREL WHO PREYED

... ON WOMEN."

FINE ARMY RECORD.

A typist, Miss May Joyce Jones, alleged at the Old Bailey, London, recently that she was persuaded to part with over £500 to a married and whom she met through a matri.

nonial advertisement. giving evidence against William James Caldwell (9), builder, of Highgate, who pleaded not guilty to obtaining from Miss Jones sums of £30, £230, £200, and £18.

She was

THEFT OF DIAMOND RING.

| 'AMAH GETS FOUR MONTHS.

RECEIVER ALSO CONVICTED.

A story of how a diamond ring was lost and recovered by chance was related at the Central Magin trasy yosterday when Mr. E. H Williams, heard a case in which a were charged man and a woman with stealing the article from the woman's employer at No. 94, Wellington Street. An alternative charge of receiving atolea property was also preferred.

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stealing the ring, and the man, who The woman pleaded guilty to

was represented by Mr. F, X. d'aimade, jur., entered in, plea of

not guilty" to both charges. years of age. When she was 21 sheention, Detectivo Sergeant Goodwin Qutlining the eneo for the prone- came into possession of a sm

Alias Jones Raid she was 25 rears of age and lived at Camden Town. Her father died when she was four

of

stolen from 24, Wellington Street.

£700, In February, 1920, the de stated that on October 4 a report sired to get married and she insertmond ring valued at $300 had been was made to the Police that a dia. ed an advertisement in a matri monial newspaper. She was sup plied with the address of Caldwell, who was then living at Camberwell, She wrote to him so eventually he enlled on her. He said he was

search was made but without

Виссева.

Chinese ctective was on duty in On October 10, however, while a Shanghai Street, Yaumati, he saw

a man

Ex-

nufacturing chemist and his in. come was £600 a year. He remark-

into a pawnshop. The ed that he wanted to settle down detective stood at the entrance and thero ho saw the man tako out a and he believed in husbands al wives going "fifty-fifty." He went detective questioned the man and diamond ring. Being suspicious the on to say he had led a roving life and had never

an receiving no satisfactory met anyone withplanation took him to the Mongkok whom he could settle down.

Police Station. There the man stated that a woman gave it to him to pawn, and from further infor- ant was arrested, mation gathered the female defend.

stated that she lost her diamond-

The complainant, Ng Ngoi King, ring on October 4. The first de as an amali. fendant had been oraployed by her She kept her ring gether with her clothes in a cup-

board.

Miss Jonca said she believed Caldwell to be a single man. He mentioned other women he had met through the matrimonial agency and said one was

nurse who bad £1,000 capital and was prepared to give him £000 and keep £100 for her trousseau.

Caldwell told her he fancied her of all the women he had got into communication with. He proposed to her on April 10, 1929, at an hotel, and she 'ze-

The detective, who made the nr. cepted him. The condition of the rest, told the Court that on the engagement was that she should night of October 19 while he was give him £500. Of that amount, on duty in Shanghai Street he saw £100 was to be kept for the furni- the second defendant enter a pawn- ture and £100 put into the business. shop. He produced a diamond ring He bought her an engagement ring, and naked $500 for it. Witness ap which cost £ 10s., and they paid a pronched the man and asked how representative of the matrimonial he got the dinmond ring. Defend paper £20 for the introduction. ant. at first stated that it had been They selected a house at Bexley given to him by his master, but Heath, and a deposit of £25 had to later changed his story and said he paid on it. Then Caldwell said that it had been given to him by he would have to have more money, his mistress to pawn. Being press- and he suggested that the witnessed further, the defendant admitted should let him have another sum of that it was given to him by an £20, and she did so. Caldwell went amah working at 21, Wellington to live at her mother's address, and Street. it was only about three months ago that she found out he was married. She then informed Scotland Yard..

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Looking up the "Stolen Property Record" witness found that similar article had been reported missing and took the defendant to the house in question. There the man pointed out the female defend-

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Already. Married. Herbert Cecil Watson, of Wan- stead, told the Court that Caldwell was married to his sister at the

FLATS TO LET. Giving evidence, the arrested Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Shen-man stated that the ring was given field, in the came of Uhrmacher to him for ante keeping by the There were three children of the woman defendant, He did not

marriage, but the wife was not liv-know its value. Once he took it LET-PRINOS EDWARD ROAD, ing with Caldwell, there being a to a pawnation to get a valuation separation order.

Later, Caldwell withdrew his plea was worth $300. He then took it and was surprised to hear that it of not guilty and pleaded guilty.

Detective Sergeant Bell said that valuation confirmed and in each in- to other pawnshops to get the in 1917 Caldwell changed his name stance he was told that the ring by deed poll from Uhrmacher to was worth about $300. William James Caldwoll. He had

He then met the woman defend-.

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sergeant. In February, 1019, ho In reply to his Worship as to why was promoted lieutenant, and on he gave so many versions to the rotiring received a gratuity of detective as to how he came by the £1,300. He then carried on busi-ring, the defendant gave no ex- дела од д clothier and tally planation. draper under the style of the He was convicted and sentenced National Trading Corporation, to four months' hard labour on the Shaftesbury Avenue. In 1923 hic charge of receiving only. The was adjudicated bankrupt

In Plymouth he carried on busi the charge of stealing the ring.

woman was similarly sentenced on near as a builder, trading in the names of Fletcher & Co., and E. H. Williams. The Plymouth police reported that, daring that time Caldwell was a continual source of trouble. In February of last year he opened an office in Duke Street, Adelphi, trading as the Austral Herbal Research Laboratories, but he left, there in April of that year, The Common Serjeant passed and at the time of his arrest ho sentence of twenty months' im. was director and manager of a firm | prisonment with hard labour, of builders at Anerley Road, Lon. Caldwell, he said, had only just don, S.E., the firra having a sharo come out of prison when he met expital of £100 in 2,000 shilling Miss Jones and took from her £500, ́shares, Caldwell holding one share," telling her he' was a single mah,

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