The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-05 00:00:00

SURREY SESSION&

(Wan E. B. Adana. Eq.)
CONVICTION Of AN ODD rru.ow's micareAßY.

P0161•0X. 46, described in the calendar es being •
hearth-rug maker, was indicted for feloniously embessling
divers sums of money which he had received for and on
account of • certain society, known by the name of the
St. Saviour's Lodge of Odd Fellows, his employees. In other
manta of the indietmest the intent was alleged to be to
defraud William Davis and George Highkekl, the trustees of
the said society.
Mr, Oppenheim (instructed by Mr. Ditton from the office
of Mr. Chipper6eld) appeared as counsel for the prose-
cution ; the prisoner was not defended by counsel.
From the opening statement of Mr. Oppeoheim it ap-
peered that the prosecutors were the trust-es of es St.
Ssvtarit's Lodge of Odd Fellow; held at the Georg*
Tavern, Gravel-lane, Southwark, and that the pri-
soner, up to the 31st of March last, was the secretary
of the society, at • salary of 64 per Islam, payable quar-
terly. It seemed that on the day mertioned, being the
quarterly meeting, the prisoner was removed from his office,
ard Mr. John Bailey had been appointed secretary in
his stead, with instructions to investigate the primed* ac-
counts, which were believed to be irregular. The result of
Mr. Bailey's investigatioon was that these suspicions
were proved to be wall founded, and defalcations
were established against a Mr. Hayes, who had been
the treasurer of the society, to the amount of upwards
of 331., and against Hayes as order had been made by
the sitting magistrate at the Southwark police-court
for his committal to the county gaol for one mouth, in de-
fault of the payment of the amount of the alleged defalca-
tion& The preterit indictment against the priapism at the bar
MIS bald num the alleged eruhezzlementof th ree several *urns
of 6a., received by him from a member named Tidmen on 21th
March, of 5.. oo moonlit of a member named Hick., and of
• farther sum of Is. from • pampa named Kendall, paid as
fines.

The payment of the several sums to the prisooer ham
ing been proved by the respective members of the society
whoa@ Damao bare been mentioned the booth uaderwent •
rigid Denary by the jury. many of whom put questions to
the ofßeial withered showing the loose manner in which the
account' were kept.
The prisoner, when called upon for his defers, said that
he had to throw himself os the considerate attention of the
jury, as he was sot in a position to retain anybody to defend
and being thrown os Lis own resources, he trusted they
would incur the agitation be naturally felt. The whole of
these proceedings owed their origin to the jealousy of the
wirier Bailey, who used to attend the weekly meetings and to
catechize him until be succeeded in getting a resolution
pried by the lodge dismissing him (tbe primmer) from bis
appointment as secretary. sod app. luting Bailey in his plaos.
With repeat to the 6s. received from Tidman' it
came to his hands at • late bout of the night the meeting
was held, and be certainly kept it, but made an entry of the
fact in the book, sod this sum, together with the sbiUing
received from Kendall, he should have repaid ao the
quarterly night out of the quarter's eatery of 305., which
was doe to him that night, but the payment of which was
suspended until the books were crammed and overhauled.
With reference to the Sr. received from Hicks be declared
that he had paid it over to Bailer the same night.
Mr. Adams summed up the evidence with great care end
minuteness, and
The jury, after • long eousultation in their box, stated
through their foreman, that it was not likely they could
agree, &slimy were divided half and half.
Mr. Adams intimated to them that they bad bettor retire
to consider their verdict

The jury accordingly withdrew, ani after an *berm* of
upwards of an bout came into court with a verdict of
The witoms Bailey was recalled by the murk and in
answer to gunshots pot from the beech, stated that the
embezzlemeots by the prisoner were Dot coolbsed to the
sums mentioned in the irdictment, but amounted to up-
wards of 301., and unless the 'mount was made up by the
members the society must be dissolved, to the great iojury
of thr poorer class of persons, who bad beau for a long time
contributiog to its funds.
Mr. Adams, in parmag sentence, remarked that the pri-
soner had clearly beam guilty of • breach of trust and of
the erabeastemeot of divers sums of money, which would
cause greet distr.= to • somber of poor, industrious, sod
tray! panawa, who had paid is Mertioms of thou hard aara.