The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-08 00:00:00

TSB POLICE COURTS.

GUILDHALL

Hanizsztootrarr.—Jolin Lee was charged with ember-
sling 201 and various other moneysto a considerable amount.
Mr. Thos. Wrutht, of Odtspur street, cheesemonger, paid :
The prisoner has lived with me for some years as confidential
clerk and cashier, and it was his duty to receive money and
pay it to my bankers, Messrs. Jones Loyd and Co. On the
25th of July he debited Jones Loyd and Co. with
1621. B*. 6.1.. paying in only 1421. 8•. 6d. There was in the
cub-box 1621. 8.. ffd.. to be paid in on that day, and he took
that amount. On the counterpart of the hanker,' book he
has entered as paid the stun of 1421. Ba. 6d. The book
which contained the entry of the 1621.85. 6d. is in the pri-
soner'shandwriting, and is entered as he took it from the
cash-boa, showing how that money is made up. On the 7th
of July last he debited the bankers 4461. 61. Bd.,
only paying to them, in like manner as before, 426/. 65.,
which is shield in the counterpart of the bankers' book.
The nest entry was that of the 29th of Juae, when the debit
to the bankers was for 4971. 14s. Id., and the counterpart
has only 4771. 14s. Id. He never accounted to me for theft
moneys, nor had he any authority to withhold money. No
other person was authorised to pay in the money, except
when the prisoner was absent. On ref* rring to my ledger
of the 11th of June, I find in the prisoner's handwriting
the entry of 1941. 84. 4d., whereas the sum paid into the
hook was only 1741. Bs. 4d. The prisoner bad
eogsted to me for this difference in his accounts, and on
making this discovery. I gave him into custody.
Other evidence having been given, the primmer (who de.
dined saying turtling in his defence) was committed for
trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.
BWtIDLINO AND FALONY.—John Wright, alias Joseph
Hume, alias Bennett, Mary Wright, alias Russell, alias
Madame Loraine and a young woman named Charlotte
Richards, who acted as the other prisoners' servant, were
Owed at the bar for final exernination, charged with felo-
nitmsly obtaining a large quantity of valueble property from
numerous tradesmen.
The officers announced that they bad no less than 70 pee'
saw In attendance, either as wham.s or principals, to sup-
port charges against the prisoners.
One of the cases (before imperfectly gone into) was that
of Mr.Willians Merchant, IjCingsland, from whom Suter's=
prisoner Wright, who then lived in a stylish house in
Arthur-terrace,Victoria- grove, Stoke Newington, and paned
by the name of Russell, obtained a newly manufactured full
compass cdttage piano upon hire, on the 14th of May last,
under a promise of purchasing it for 23 guineas ready
money ; but upon the prosecutor calling a few weeks after-
wards, he found the house shut up, and he had since
been stele to find the instrument. A witness named Cherry,
however, the son of • carman, proved that about five weeks
ego Wright hired two vans of him, and took them toVietoria-
grove =here they were loaded with furniture, including the
limo' in question, and driven to the house in Hackney-
grove, where the prisoners were subsequently apprehended.
Tele was now held by the =student to be a clear case of
felony as far as regarded the two first-named prisoners, and
they were both fully committed for trial upon it.
Mr. John Andrew., • stationer, at Brunswick-place,
Stoke Newington, next pressed forward to prefer • charge
against the soi-disant servant Richards, and stated that on
the 28th of May she called upon him and gave directions for
a copy of the Times to be left each morning for her mistress,
Mrs. Buwell, and after purchasing • few trifling articles she
left the shop. The newspaper was supplied for about •
month, as ordered, when Richards came again to the shop,
and *electing two ladies' writing-desks, completely fitted up,
took one away with her, and directed the other to be sent
for the lady's approval. When taken to the house Richards
sail her mistress was out on • visit, and on the prosecutor
calling next morning about them he found the house empty
and the whole of the prisoners had disappeared.
The two desks were now produced by Clarke, the constable,
who stopped the woman Wright with one of them while ab-
sconding with the other prisoners before daylight from the
house in Hackney-greee, and discovered the second desk in
one of the upper apartments.
Other evidence was gone into implicating the prisoners in
various acts of felony, and Spinks, the officer, stated that
in consequence of the publication in the newspapers of the
prisoners examination a great number of persons had called
upon him at the police-station to identi'y various portions of
the property, but notwithstanding the great number of arti-
cles so claimed, he had still about MI ur 701. worth of goods
as yet ueowned.
There being no time to enter upon any other cases to-day,
and the prisoners having, by the advice of Mr. Vann,
their solicitor, declined offering any defence, they were
committed for trial upon six charges, and ware finally
remanded for a week upon several *thee cues only partially
gone into.