The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-08 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

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rharlrs Mayentk, a gentlemanly looking young man, I
was brought up in charge of Sergeant Foulger, the detec-
tive officer, for further examination upon the charge of 1
embezzling various sums of money belonging to his em-
ployers, Messrs. Fourdrinier and Co., wholesale stationers,
of Sherborne-lane.
Mr. Richardson conducted the prosecution.
The facts of this case have already appeared. The pri-
soner had been for some years in the service of the prosecu-
tors as collector and town traveller, and great confidence
was reposed in him. It was recently discovered, how-
ever, that be had abused that confidence, and
had received several sums of money which he bad
not accounted for. When he was taken into custody
by Foulger he appeared very much affected, and
exclaimed that it was the bitterest day of his life, and
added " drink and betting have brought me to this." On
the first examination it was proved that the prisoner had
received a sum of 51. 12s. from one of the prosecutors'
customers, named Palmer, and yesterday additional
evidence was adduced to show that he had received two
other sums of 111. 17s. and t,/. Ids., and that he had not
accounted for any portion of theae amounts.
The prisoner, when called upon in the usual form, replied
that he had nithing to say in answer to the charge.
Alderman Lusk, MY., who presided in the Asence of
the Lord Mayor, said it was really quite painful to be
called upon, as he bad been so frequently lately, to send
respectable gentlemanly young men for trial for robbing
their employers, drink and betting being almost always the
causes of their committing the crime. In the present
instance the offence, however, was clearly established, and
he must go to the Central Criminal Court to take his
trial.
/lurid Benjamin, a Jew, was brought up by Charles
Brown, a City detective, on remand, for further examina-
tion on the charge of assaulting and robbing a gentleman
named Coxwell, in Cannon-street, of two ICC notes, a Si.
note, and six sovereigns.
The robbery in question, it will be remembered, was
committed on the night of the 24th of April last, and the
prosecutor received a good deal of injury. The prisoner
was suspected at the time, but he absconded, and did not
return to London until recently, when Brown, the officer,
from information be received, apprehended him in Petti-
coat-lane. Additional evidence was now adduced to show
that the prisoner was seen to throw the prosecutor down
and run away, at the time the robbery was committed.
Mr. Agar, the principal warder of the City prison, at
Holloway, stated that the pr souse had been seven times
confined in that prison, twice for picking pockets and once
for highway robbery with violence.
The prosecutor stated that he was about to go to
America, and wished the alderman to deal summarily
with the prisoner.
iblerman Lusk said that be bad not the power to do so,
and if he bad he certainly should not exercise it in a case
like the present. Winter was now fast approaching, and
the public who had to traverse the streets at night must
be protected from outrages of this description.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
GUILDHALL.

Mr. John Irring Sergi, the editor of the Reporter news-
paper, and Andrew Wilton, the publisher, were summoned
before Alderman Cotton for printing and publishing a
defamatory libel of and concerning the Queen Life Assur-
ance Company. The complainant was Mr. John Elphio
Leyland, the secretary of the said company.
When the summonses were called on, it was stated to the
alderman that Wilton had gone to Australia, and that Mr.
Scott was unable to attend.
Alderman Cotton said that on the lad occasion when
the case was before him be had hoped that an apology
I would hare been offered and accepted by Mr. Leyland,
but as that had not been done, he should allow Mr.
Edwards (the solicitor to the company) to make a state-
ment in contradiction of the libel, and then adjourn the
h • until Mr. Scott was able to attend.
Mr. Edwards said he wished to make a general denial of
the libel of which he complained. It was contained in an
article in the number of the Reporter of tbe Ilith October,
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