The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-16 00:00:00

THU 1011URT IT TEX OMB Or TEI UNION BANK.

William George Pei/infer, the late cashier to the Union
Bank, ems then placed at the her to receive the judgment
ot the court.

Mr. Baron Chaimll said he perceived that the prisoner
had pleaded guilty to two indictments for larceny, and he
understood that Mr. Giffard, who appeared for the prosecu-
tion, intended to put the court in poneenee of SOMa further
information respecting the prisoner.
An intimation was given that Mr. Berimgeonr, the ma-
nager of the bank, was in attendance, and that he would
Evi the court any information that might be required of
Mr. &rime/our was accordingly worn, and in answer to
questions put by the leareed juke be mid—The prsoner Ins
been for five years in the employment of the Union Bank as
chief cashier, but he has been altogether in the service of
the bank for twenty-me years. His salary odisnally, I
believe, was about 3001. or 4001. a year ; but when wm ap-
pointed chief cashier his salary was raised to 5001., and
about four months before these transactions were discovered,
it was again raised to 600 i. • year.
Baron Mennen, to the I see that the prisoner
has pleaded guilty to two indictments, one charging him
with stealing the sum of 3501., and the other the sum of
3,0001. Is that the total amount of his defalcations ?
Mr. Beritioneour—Oh, no, my lord, there are other defal
canoes to • very bur mount.
Baron Chaanell—it amount do you suppose is the
entire sun that has been misappropriated
Mr. finitapour—About 260,000 i. The whole amount is
263,0001,
Baron Channell—When do you suppose the first defalca-
tion took plam ?
Mr. licrimgeenr— About the month of January, 1865.
The primmer was then raked whether he whited to put
any questions to Mr. Scrimgsour, or to Wren any observa-
tions to the court.
The printer said he did not wish to put say questions to
Mr. Braimmour, but he desired to say a few words before
his lordship paned sentence.
&roe Channel told the prisoner he was at liberty to
do so.

The prisoner then addressed the court as follows : I wish
to make a statement to the mart to inform them what my con-
duct has been since the disoovery of these frauds. The moment
the directors mentioned the suspicion that wee entertained
lat once confessed that I was culpable, and gave them
every information as to the extent of the frauds, and gave
ell the emiliemeepolisiaree to realise securities for the
bus& of the beak. mei my wife have also assigned
in the world with the mine object,
MlLitalerwethat es much restitution sis possible n ight be
mob. It had not been for the lad faith of a brokerker who
fulled last_ year, I should have restored • much larger
amount. From the first it has been my determination to
uflt ; and although my Mends have endeavoured to
Me from doing so, I persisted in that determine.
Mon. It has gone forth to the world that I had made
up • purse for my wife, but it is only due to her to say
that from the first she has always urged me to make full
restitution, and expressed her readiness to give up every-
thing and retire to another land, upon a small pittance
allowed her by her own friends, and there hide her grief.
(The prisoner was here • good deal affected.) If what I
have just stated should be considered by your lordship to
afford any ground for mitigating the horrors of my impri-
sonment, I shall be deeply grateful ; but if your lordship,
like the bank, should feel that you can show me no mercy,
I shall still bow cheerfully to your decision. (There was a
slight attempt at applause when the prisoner concluded.)
Baron Channell then addressed the prisoner in the
following terms William George Ranger, you have
pleaded guilty to two indictments, one of which
charges you with *testing 3601. and the other with
stealing 3,000 f., the moneys of your employers,
the Union Bank. It appears that you had been in the am-
ploy of the bank for many years, and that for the last five
years you had been appointed to • situation of great trust
and confidence, and that you were remunerated by • large
salary. The court only bad the power of dealing with the
precise charge, before it, but it was my duty to inquire into
all the circumstances surrounding the offence, in order that
' -sward

I might he to a oddest to ai an adequate punishment,
and the resat of the inc=f2 felt it my duty to make
appears to be that the five years you have
acted as maker to We k your total amount of
defalcations appears to be the enormous sum of
261,000/. It Is imponsible, therefore, for the court
not to see that your guilt is not limited to the
two charges to which you have pleaded guilty, but that
from week to week, from month to month, nay even from
day to day, you have been in a course of dis-
honesty to your employers, and you at the time in
the receipt of a large salary from them e case before
see, therefore, is one involving a long career of guilt. The
utmost punishment to which you are liable for one offence
of this description Is that of fourteen years' penal servitude,
but it is °pee to the court in its discretion, when there are
two indictments, to put an a!ditional sentenoe upon the
secood ODIN and after an anxious consideration of the
depositions and all the facts of the ease, the
court feels itself compelled to adopt that course. The asn-
teace, therefore, which I feel bound to paaa upon you will
be that you be kept in penal servitude for the owe of 14
years epos the first indictment, and that you undergo a
farther period of six years' penal servitude upon the second,
in all 20 years. I have listened to the observations von
have mode to tie court, but I find nothing in them that
ought to lama see, but if there is any matter that ad-
mits of verification, and which you consider entitles you to
ask for soy remind's, of your sentence, you must apply to
the Secretary of Stair for that .
The prisoner, who quite overwhelmed at the
sentence, was then removed.