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Show Lure of the Stock Market Wrecks Life their relation wera cordial. The wife preferred a placa tit tha bualneaa world to noma life, It waa explained. Mrs. Sweeney wai known to her employer ai "Mli Jonea." Mrs. Sweeney figured prominently In the recent court action over the $7,-000,000 $7,-000,000 Slater fortune. She wai secretary secre-tary to Mm. Horace N. Slater, Sr. Mra. Sweeney had long been trunted employee em-ployee of Rodolpha Agaasla la the various vari-ous Agasslz enterprises, Including the Calumet A Heela company. Aa secretary of the New England Exploration company, a subsidiary of the Calumet company, Mra. Sweeney bad access to the aafety deposit vault of Mra. Prince, In a local trust company. com-pany. The alleged theft of bonda from the vault covers a period of two years. BOSTON. The lure of Block-market gambling waa blamed ly the authorltlea for the plight of Mra. Alraee A. Sweeney, confidential ecretary aud advlaer to Host on mining min-ing operator, who wna charged with larceny of $22,000 In bonda from Mra. iiordon A. Trlnce, aoclety woman, Mra. Sweeney la the second woman financier to full Into the handa of police po-lice of New Kngtand In two week. Mlaa Maude Tefft, treasurer of the Kingston (It. I.) Trust company, la under arrest, ehurged with wrecking - the bank aud atealing $110,000. Like Mlaa Tefft, the Huston woman la alleged al-leged to have heen tempted by the poa-aihility poa-aihility of quick profits. Mra. Sweeney, a fifty-two-year-old . woman who haa handled millions of dollar In conducting business deal Mr. Sweeney had power of attorney from Bulkeley Well, millionaire mining min-ing man of Colorado, Well I an official of-ficial of the Exploration company mid spend much time in the West. By using this power of attorney Mr. Sweeney I alleged to have got the bond from the vault. Airs. I'rlnce formerly w hs Mis Anna Agasslz and was married lust summer to Lieut. Gordon Prince, famoua World war flyer. Mra. Sweeney appeared In police court and In a clear voire pleaded "guilty" to the larceny of $22.8tH In bonda from Mr. U. Prince. or her employer, and who, It la ul-leged, ul-leged, wa tempted finally by stock-market stock-market gambling, had a dual personality, personal-ity, her arrest revealed. She potted a a spinster, although married for 13 yeara to James K. Sweeney of Worcester, district passenger passen-ger agent of the Iloaton & Albany railway, rail-way, Sweeney hurrloil to Boston to aid hi wife. "I can't believe that my wife Is a thief." he ald. "I'll stand by her In whatever trouble she la In," he said. The couple did not live together, hut |