The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-10 00:00:00

MANSION-HOUSE.

Just as the Lord Mayor was about to leave the
bench, horid Allan, a young man of respectable ap-
pearance, was brought up in the custody of detective
officers Brett and Foulger, and charged before the Lord
Mayor with embezzling 'several large sums of money
received by him for and on account of Messrs. Bell and
Black, of Bow-lane, f'heapside, his marten.
Mr. Thomsa Beard appeared for the prosecution, and
stated that the prosecutors were wholesale wax match
manufacturers, carrying on their business at No. 15, Bow-
lane, (Movable, and the prisoner had been in their service
as town traveller on salaryland commission for seven or
eight years, hie duties being to take orders. sell goods, re-
ceive monies, and to account for what he received at the
close of each day. He remained in the service up to the
Lith November last, when he, together with a person
named Holroyd, who had held the situation of m
clerk to the firm, absconded from the employ-
ment. This gave rise to inquiries, resulting in an
examination of the book', when it was discovered that the
defalcations in which both the prisoner and Holroyd
had been concerned amounted in round numbers to about
1,:-.013/. Warrants for their apprehension were applied for,
and granted at this court, but they eluded the police and
avoided apprehension until the previous evening, when the
prisoner now at the bar was taken into custody at South-
end. At the time of the capture another man, believed to
be Holroyd, was with him, but he contrived to make his
escape, in consequence of Mr. Bell, one of the prosecutors,
who is very short-sighted, being unable to identify him in
the dark. The local police were, however, on the alert,
and he (Mr. Beard) believed he would be in custody on the
day to which the present prisoner might be remanded.
To justify that remand be should prove two cases of em-
bezzlement by the prisoner.
The embezzlement of two rums of 21. 3s. 11d., and of
lf. Yom. lid., were proved by Mr. Brace, by Mr. Gooch, and
by Mr.Bell,the prosecutor.
Detective officer Brett proved the capture of the prisoner
at 9 o'clock the previous night at Southend, and when told
the charge the prisoner said, " I have been expecting this."
He was then taken into custody and brought up to Lon-
don that morning.
. . .

On the appli;tion of Dlr. Beard the prisoner was re-
manded for a week.

Wafter Merlon Jearrtt, • young man of gentlemanly
bearing and exterior, wan }nought up iu custody by detec-
tive officer Smart, and charged with embezzling divers
noon of money received by him on account of Weems.
Allen, Murray, and Co., the wholesale tea merchants, of
Billiter•square.
Mr. Crook, of the firm of Rooks Renwick, and Crook,
solicitors, of 10, Eastcheap, appeared for the prosecution ;
and Mr. Woutner, jun., appeared for the prisoner.
The prisoner had been in the service of the firm as clerk
and traveller on salary and commission for some years,
and on the 19th December last he addressed a letter to
them enclosing a list of sums he had received and not ac-
counted for and praying for the merciful consideration of
the firm. It transpired that the prosecuton held a bond
for 1001. given by the prisoner's father, and a gentleman
Denied Reynolds was security for the prisoner's honesty.
In cross-examination of Mr. Howell, a clerk in the ser-
vice of the prosecutors, Mr. Wontner, jun., elimted that
from the 19th December up to that morning the prisoner
had remained at large, and during that time negotiations
had been going on for a settlement of the matter, and •
letter signed by Mr. Allen, the head of the firm, esta-
blished that fact. _ _

Mr. M outner, jun. on this objected that there was an
end of the criminal charge by this attempt to compromise.
The Lord Mayor said it wu clear to his mind that there
had been an attempt to make a civil matter of the cue,
and that being so he could not deal criminally with it.
The prisoner must be discharged.