The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-25 00:00:00

For the defence, Mr. Rabin contended that there had been
no publication; and that the defendant bad been, so to
speak, entrapped into making a statement, without being
previously warned u to the consequences of his act.
Tyrwbitt considered, however, tbet there had been
a publication, and committed the priaaser for t Snug
the bail at 10/.

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A BOY.

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At the Mansion-house police court yesterday
Henry Price, a boy of 13, and of remarkably good and in-
telligent appearanes was brought before Sir R. Queen in
custody of Humpli;ys, • City constable, changed with
embezzling three several sums of 91. 14s. Gd. 21. Ss., and
V. 12s. Bd., the moneys of his employer, M,r. Morley, •
wholesale twine manufacturer in Ironmonger-lane.
It appeared that the prisoner's family were very respect-
able, and he bad been employed by the prosecutor for 11
months as office boy, and occesionally to receive amounts
from the customers. He suddenly absented himself
from his employment, and thin created elicitation,
and inquiries were made, which resulted in the
discovery that the prisoner bad received a considerable sum
of money from different customers, none of which had been
aooounted for, and he had succeeded in some Meloness in
obtaining the money in a very ingenious manner. In one
case it appeared that he had contrived to get a quantity
of twine out of the warehouse, which he pent, without any
order, to one of the customers of the prosecutor, and on
the day he absconded he went to this person and asked for
payment. He was told that the twine had not been or-
dered and was not wanted, upon which the prisoner with
the utmost coolness said that Mr. Morley was very sorry
for the mistake, and he would, under the circumstances,
allow • shilling a dozen off the price of the twine, and he
was paid 211.85., and gave a receipt. He then appeared to
have gone to another customer M Bermondsey, and stated
that Mr. Morley had a heavy payment to make on the
following day, and would be pr much obliged to
him if he would pity his aocount-9/. 14e. He was
told that the money should be sent on the following day ;
but this, of course, would not have answered the priso-
ner's and he premed so hard for the payment
that the -monepurpose, y was at length given to him.
Mr. Morley stated that the customer in question had
dealt with him a considerable time, and the goods had
only just been sent in. He was therefore very muck
annoyed at the prisoner's conduct. Besides the cases re-
ferred to, there were several others, where the prisoner
had received money from other customers, and whe he went
away he must have had 121. in his possession, and as only
three days bad elapsed when he was taken into custody,
he should like to know what had become of the money.
Sir It. Carden asked the prisoner whether he chose to
give any account how the money was spent 1
He replied that he and another boy went to Epping
Forest together, and at this time be had only 91. left, as
he had spent 31. in London before he started.
Sir R. Carden said that he could not have spent 91. in
three days.
The prisoner said that be did not exactly spend it all
himself. He and the other boy hired a horse a pion, and
rode about the forest during two days, and paid 21. for the
hones, and enjoyed themselves with refreshments at
different places. They slept together at a public-house,
and when he awoke in the morning he found his com-
panion was gone. and as he was about to go for another
ride, he searched his pockets and found he had only
11. 13e. left. His companion, he said, was aware that he
had stolen the money that he had with him.
Sir R. Carden—And I suppose he thought that he had
se much right to the money am you had, and therefore
robbed you of it. (A laugh.)
The young culprit, very coolly, and amid the laughter of
the court, said he supposed he did ; at all events he found
that he had only 11. 13a. left of his W., and he thought he
might as well get rid of that before he was apprehended.
Sir R. Carden, after observing that it was a melancholy
thing to see so young • lad such an adept in crime, said that
he felt it his duty to commit him to Newgate to take his
trial.
The prisoner, who seemed to regard the whole proceed-
ing with the utmost indifference, was then removed from
"s bar.