The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-21 00:00:00

7118 POLICE corant

GUILDHALL.

Mr. Willi = Mena; l';;;le-4;11, described u a merchant,
residing at No. I, Balt lloon-amest, Piccadilly, was charged
with unlawfully misappropriating 106 shares in the London
and Westminster Bank, value of 4,0001., and certain stock in
the London Brighton and South Coast Railway, value
2.501, with intent to defraud Mrs. Anne Bruce Borland and
others.

Mr. Humphreys, jun. (of the firm of Humphreys and
Morgan, of Newate-street), appeared for the prosecution,
and stated that he was instructed in this case on behalf of
Mee. Borland and her three daughters to prosecute the pri-
soner who, as their trustee under the will of the late Mr.
&when, Iliad misappropriated shares and stock to the
value of about 7,0001. The circumstances which led to the
discovery of the fraud alleged against the de-
fendant were these. Mr. Strachan died in 1848,
leaving this property to Mrs. Borland for her lite with rever-
sion to her daughters at her decease. One of the executor'
subsequently went to Australis, end another died, leaving the
prisoner sole executor and trustee, in consequence of which
Mr.. Borland wished other trustees appointed and arrange-
ments were made for carrying out her wishes, when It wee found
that of the 132 shares in the London and Westminster Bank
105 had been sold as low as twelve months previous, and the
2501. stock in the London, Brighton, and South Coast Rail-
way had been also appropriated in a similar manner. A bill
in Chancery was therefore filed to prevent the primer from
disposing of tbo remaining twenty-seven bask shares, and
the authority and sanction of Sir Richard Bethel! and Vies-
Chancellor Wood obtained to prosecute the prisoner under
the Fraudulent Trustees Act. e (Mr. Humphreys) proposed
to place before the court theevidence of the officer who appre-
hended the prisoner, and the information sworn to by
Borland, for the purpose of obtaining the warrant, and then
to ask for a remand to enable him to complete the case.
John Mark Bull, a City detective officer, said—l appre-
hended the prisoner upon a warrant on fiaturdai evening
last, as be was eatering No. 1, Half Moon-street, Piccadilly.
Miss Borland was with me, and identified him as the person
named in the warmest, which I read to biro. He said diffi-
culties bad overtaken him for some lime par, but that if
these proceedings had been delayed a week later ne doubt all
matters would have been arranged. He said he regretted
Mrs. Borland had taken them steps, as be had received
greater kkdneet from her than he had from his own family.
I searched the prisoner, but found nothing upon him relative
to theehuge.
Miss Jean Bruce Borland, of 6, Portland-road, Kilmer-
meth, in the county of Ayr, and 3, Oloucester-plms, Oakley-
square, Camden-town raid—l produce a copy -of the will of
the late William Stem:him, under which my mother is en-
titled to a life-Interest in the dividends on his shares in the
London and Westminster Bank, and all shares in endways
held by him at the time of his death. The trustees and exe-
cutors were William Lewis, Edward Hicks Finch, and W.
Francis Vandervell, the latter having been sole executor
ethos April, 1864. There were 132 Mares in the London and
Westminster Bank, and 2501. in London, Brighton, and
South Coast Railway Stock. The dividends were regularly
paid by Mr. Vandervell up to July, 1869, when my mother
and my sisters, who will participate with we under the will,
In the shares and dividends at my mother's decease, Lewin
desirous of appointing new trustees, which was ultimately
arranged, and Mr. Vandervell undertook to transfer
the shares and stork into our four name*, for which
purpose my mother received from him the two
forms of transfer produced on the 10th of July, 1869,
one far the transfer of the bank shares, and the other for that
of the railway stock. He sent the forms for us to execute
and return to him. On the 12th of October last I went to
the London and Westminster Bank, and modused the trans-
fer of the 132 shares to a genileman there, who informed me
the bank would not acknowledge it, and advised meat once to
place the matter in my solicitor's hands. I did so, and he
wrote to the bank, and the following is an extract from the
reply received :—" It is proper I should mention that no
more than n Mares have stood in the name of Mr. Vander-
vell far upwards of • year past, the other shares having
been previously sold." My solicitor then wrote, pursuant
to my directions, to the London, Brighton, and South Coast
Railway Company. and received the following rep!
"The sum of 2601. was transferred by Mr. Va in
September last, bat not to the name of Borland.
The dividend upon the above was paid to Mr.
Vandervell on the sth of August last." A bill was flied
on the 14th of October, 1859, spinet the said W. Francis
Vandervell, at the snit of my mother, my sisters, and toyed,
to restrain him from transferring any part of the remainingtrust funds. I produce a flat signed " Richard Bethel',"
which I believe to be the Miniature of the Attorney-Oeneral,
allowing me to prosecute Mr. VandervelL I also produce
the sanction of Vice-Chancellor Wood to this prosecution.
Mr. Humphreys, upon this evidence, applied for a remand.
Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mews. Sawbrldgeworth, for the
defence, said he had only been instructed in the matter
within the hour, and feeling that it was a one that must be
further investigated, he would not Unable the court at ;resent
with any remarks upon the evidence. He would, however,
ask that the accused should be admitted I. bail, ethich he
would undertake should be of a pubatantial character,

Alderman Hale then remanded the prleoner, but declined
to allow ball.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The dental
profession, and indeed the public generally, will be sled
to learn that the crown having, in pursuanc.a of the provi •
alone in the Medical Act, granted a charter to the above
Institution, empowering It "to institute and hold examina-
tions for the purpose of testing the teem of peraoos to
practise as dentists, and to grant certificates of each fltnees;"
ant directing that, " the board of examiners In dental sur-
gery shall consist of six members, three of whom shall he
members of the Court of Examiners of the oollege, and three
others of them shall be persons skilled in dental surgery,"
the conncil of the College of Surgeons, hiving established
the bye-laws and regulatiwm necessary for carrying out such
examinations, met on Saturday, the 18th inst. when the
following gentlemen were elected members of the Board of
Examiners in Dental Surgery, vie.: Mr. William Lawrence,
F.R.8., Bement-Surgeon to the Queen ; Mr. Joseph Henry
Omen, F.R.B. ; Mr. James Moncrieff Arnett, F.R.8.,
President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Burgeon-in-
Ordinary to his Royal Highness the Priam Consort ; Mr.
Thomas Bell, P.R.S . Lecturer on Dental Surgery to Guy's
lioapital; Mr. John Tomes. P.N.S., Surgeon Dentist to the
Middlesex Hospital ; and Mr. Arnold Roger., F.R.C.S.,
Conealting Burgeon-Dentist to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
THE FRENCH TARIFF.--A parliamentary paper
was lseuot yesterday, giving a list of articles now prohibited
to be admitted at duties not exceeding 30 per cent, ad valo-
rem after the lit of October, 1861, end not exceeding 25 per
met. ad valorem after the let of October, 1864. It also Om
the existing and proposal French tariff twin British produce
imported from the Vetted Kingdom in French or British
weasels. _ _

Num Srrantroz. Pron.—ln consequence of the
daub of the Bishop of Rochester, the Bight Rev. Dr. Camp-
bell, who win remedy elected to the bishopric of Bangor,
become* entitled to a mat in the House of Lords. The new
Bishop of Rochester will not sit I. the House of Lords until
the avoidance of • see other than Canterbury, York, Los-
don. Winchester, and Barham.
MUSEUM or Portlier', Bourn BI PIIHNOTON.--
Number of visitors for the meek ending Fab. 18 :—Mornings,
958; *ventage, 848; Mid, 1,808. atom the opening of As
museum free daily (May 12, 1868), 189,287.
THI ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS.—At the request of
Hi* Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge On order that
he may preside at the banquet of the Rifle Corp.) the omni-
vore/my festival of this charity is postponed from the 7th of
March t, the 9ih of filmoh.
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by season ticket*, 325.—T0tal veleta% 1,010.
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