The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-02-04 00:00:00

SINGULAR CH ARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT
AGAINST • CAPTAIN.

'MID( gioristrabil, Meant .T. a. Show, J. Hare, and
W. lirrepath, ?boom Audiew., late master of the
On TeeedaY, at the Coensil.bouse. Bristol, before the
schooner Heroine, was beought up on remand from
of Mr. Henry Chutes Bart. Mr. Parr (firm Osborne,
slurred with em lug Cl2O. the property
Mr. Almon repreisented the prisoner. A part of the
eppeered for the proeroutm. and
testimony was received :
•Fwvideerardiday.esPl"::::l"Ukde7ort.) Friday. The following. dditional
Sydentsions Thomas gtosibmis deposed that he was a
clerk in the employ of Years. Wait end James, the ,
brokers of the cargo of the ship Fleroine. He made op
the freight account of the vessel on the 14th of Jannarr,
and the belonce then doe laths ship wits £ll3 13t.
The crimper said he wonted his accounts made up that
morning, and asked him to nuke out • cheque for the
balance in his own name, as he wanted to cosh It and
remit part to the owner. Witnees drew a cheque as
requested, and handed it over to him, and he gave a
receipt for it. He afterwards made inquiries for the
accused and Posed that he had left Bristol, and in
ooroequenoe of that another master was appointed to
the ship.
°eerie Edmund Blood, uglier to Messrs. Wait and
Junes, stated that on the 14th of January the prisoner
came to him end said he hal lost the eheque whieds he
hod received a short time before from Mr. Stephens.
Witness went to Messrs. Stookey'e hank and stopped
payment of the cheque, and eras acenropanied thither by
the accused. When they returned he said he wanted
another cheque, as he woo going to sail shortly. Wit-
ness told him he amid not give him one until he was quite sati.fied the first one wu bat, H. OM, to him
shout • quarter of an hour afterwanto saying that he had
found the (Megae in the strut. Went with him to the
bank, withdrew the stop," and saw the cashier pay the
money to Andrews. The cheque produed is the oe•
given to Um ;whimsey—it is slightly muddy at one earner.
kad previossly p. 44 00 le 14 Prisalier paAgoottst book

William Edward Baker, mailer and ntansaing clerk
to Mr. Wanhill. si.iphroker end SniMar, of Poole, atated
that he lines 'ho prisoner, and had been acquainted
with hien about alt years, and during that time he had
been the master of the Heroine. He acted in that
*opacity dorms the last some of tt at vessel. Had
not received any Innaey from lb, ri..nner no account
of the frsisht of the last voyage. Tito firWwwer'u duty
was to receive the fre•ght in B idol and remig it imme-
diately upon receipt. Mr. Thomas Wanhill was the
1.1110•1 to whom ho we illitllleted to remit the money,
If it had IP an recei•ed at Pole it must base geared
through rriumou'a hands. Tile amount doe froin the
$OOOl4l 11 ahout £l2O.
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By Mr. Almaa : The prisoner bad always conducted
hi. business ins stvielitforward wanner, and nothing
bad ever been found strung in ids eocounia.
P.C. Wil.kbsla deposed to the apprehen•ion of Ow
prisoner at Farnsworth, new Liverpod, on the 23rd inst.
Lit 2.. 7J. was found in his pnwemion.
By Mr. Alman : He was quits sober at the time he
was taken into Ctlqaely.
This ooncluded the esse for the prosecution.
114r.Alriesa, for the defenee, reworked that if the Mntis•
trate, looked at all the bearinp of the owe they would
agree with him tl at the prisoner had nut the slightest
felonion• intention. His client b.d instructed him to
say lila after the rheque siss cashed he went to the
public•boune wham he was staying, a d ttere imbibed a
onosidersble quantity of liquor. He became ineriate.l,
and did not know what he was doing. He wandered to
the rail's., 'Laths 1111,1 booked for Liverpool instead of
Poole. Mr. Maio waa proceeding with hie address to
to jostles. when
Mr. Brice mad he coosidered the twos might to be tried
before a jury.
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Yr. Psr rr ,marbsd that the premonition did not wisb
to preys the matter.
Some 000 venation then took place about the dieonwil
of the captain's property, the prnott-ty of edniittiog
bun to bsil. ko. The ch•ric of cp,,c
withimwn, and that of stealing the £ll3 odd substitated,
and the pietism' wait onornitted for trial.