The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-11 00:00:00

POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOME
Henrg CAillman, a youth, described as being 14 years of
age, but who looked much older, was charged (on remand)
before Mr. Alderman Stone, with feloniously embezzling
and stealing the sum of 41. Ba. 10d., received by him for
and on account of Mr. Frederick Elliott, his mister and

employer.
From the testimony of the prosecutor, who is a merchant,
carrying on his business at No. 6, Great St. Helen's, City,
it appeared that, up to the 12th August last, the prisoner
had been in his service as clerk, and was oesseionally em-
ployed to receive moneys, which it was his duty to hand
over in the same state as that in which he received them.
On the 29th July last he was instructed to go for an ac-
count due to the for by the well-known firm of
Messrs. W. and . Chambers, of Paternoster-row and
of Edinburgh, the eminent publishers, for shipping
charges. On the day named the prisoner was paid the
amount of the account, V. Bs. 10d.' and gave his receipt
for it. He left the service ear in August, and before
leaving denied when interrogated that he had been paid
the money by Messrs. Chambers. It was subsequently as-
certained that this statement was untrue, and a warrant
for the prisoner's apprehensionwas applied for and granted
by the Lord Mayor. The payment to the prisoner of the
sum stated was proved by M'Adam, the cashier at the
London branch of the prosecutors' establishment, and
Police-constable Brown proved the execution of the war-
rant, and the apprehension by him of the prisoner, who,
when told the charge, said he was very sorry he had done
it, and that he deeply regretted that he bad not told the
truth when interrogated on the subject by that gentleman.
The prisoner, who appeared to feel most acutely his pod-
tion, and declined to say anything in his defence, was fully
committed for trial.
Charles James Pardue, a young man of colour, aged 17,
of genteel appearance, was charged with stealing a letter
containing • 51. note,ind also • letter containing post-office
orders for the payment of divers renal' sums, and with
forging the name of his muter, Mr. Charles Thomas
Ingram, a wine-merchant, having offices at No. 35, Buck-
lersbury.
Mr. Wontner, jun.. appeared for the prosecution.
The facts disclosed by the evidence adduced in the ease
a
to be these. The prisoner had been in the service
theo Prosecutor as • junior clerk dace the month at
March last, and as each wee the first in the came every
morning, and by that means had mows to the letters as
soon as delivered by the postman. All seemed going on
properly until last month, when the prosecutor received
a letter from Mr. Pearce, a customer, residing at Taunton,
complaining that he had not received any acknow-
ledgment of • letter enclosing a post-office order
fors. 9d. which he had remitted on the 31st August,
and payable in London on the Ist September. In
like manner a similar letter had been received from
another firm, Messrs. George and Welsh, of Worcester,
complaining that • poet-offiee order for IL 12a. remitted
subsequently to the last, had not been acknowledged. In
consequence, inquiries were made by the prosecutor at the
chief money order office in St. Martin's-le-Grand, when
the two orders. in question were produced, and it was
found that the signature of "Ingram and Co." to the receipt
was a forgery and in the handwriting of the prisoner, who
bad no authority to sign the name of the firm, nor had he
any right to open the letters addressed to the firm. On
returning from the port-office, the prosecutor interro-
gated the prisoner as to the last post-office order for
IL 12a., when the prisoner asked to be allowed half an
hour to deliberate as to his reply, and on the expiration
of that time he admitted that he had taken the orders
and made use of them " under particular pressure." In
the afternoon of the same day the prisoner volunteered a
statement that he had received two accounts from London
customers and had appropriated the monies to his own
use. One of these was for 11. 19a. 6d. received from
Messrs. Paul and Burrows, and the second was for lls. 6d.
received from another firm. He also admitted other
sums, as also the abstraction of a note for 51. from •
letter, one half of which note was found in his possession.
Formal proof of payment of these sums was then given
by Mr. Paul and the other witnesses in the case.
The prisoner when called upon declined to say anything
in answer to the charge.
It was stated by Mr. Cottle, the manager of the
mtor's firm, that the prisoner had conducted himselfrerith
great assiduity and propriety from March, when he first
entered the service, down to the month of July lest, when
a change came over his conduct, and he then was evidently
led away under some undue influence or other.
Mr. Alderman Stone said it was a melancholy ease, but
it was his duty to send it for trial.
The prisoner was accordingly fully committed for trial
at the next session of the Central Criminal Court.
Auguste Derek, aforeigner,26 years of age, and described
as being a cabinet-maker, was placed at the bar, charged
with two distinct felonies; first, for riesling from a private
hotel, No. 10, Crescent, Minories, a portmanteau contain-
ing property to the value of 151., the property of Victor
Miller, • Swiss just returned from America after serving
in the Federal arm during the late war ; and the second
charge was for stealing • necklace, gold guard ohain, gold
ring and ear-rings, and • coat, of the value altogether of
between 8/. and 91., the property of George flier'.
The prisoner had taken up his residence at the private
hotel in the Crescent, Minoru", on Friday, the 28th Sept,
last, having then with him • plain black wood box as his
luggage. On Sunday, the 30th, Victor Mahler, with 13
other Swiss, who had arrived from America at Liverpool
on the preceding day, came to the hotel, intending to go
forward to France, on their return home to Switzerland,
on the Sunda evening.
evening. When they were ready to set
out on the ourney, the portmanteau belonging to
Mahler, w • had been deposited in the ball,
was missed, and suspicion fell upon the prisoner, who
had been the only person who had left the hotel, which is
on Sundays always kept closed. The prisoner was followed
by the wife of the landlord and by Mahler, and found in
Ship-alley, but no trace of the portmanteau could be die-
covered, and hence Mahler declined to prosecute, and pro-
ceeded with his friends on their journey home. The
prisoner was, however, given into custody on the charge
of assaulting the landlord's wife, and the charge was hoard
at the Thames police-court the next day, and dismissed
by the magistrate. The prisoner, however, never returned
to the hotel, but information being given to the police,
and constable Maurice Pocock, who had the prisoner in
custody for the alleged assault was set to watch him, and
after tracing him to various Tlaces at last discovered that
he was lodging at No. 11, hip-alley, Weliclou-square,
where the ocer found the portmanteau, which had been
brought there by the prisoner, who was taken into
custody at a public-house in the neighbourhood at
11 o'clock that (Wednesday) morning. When searched
at the police-station the jewellery mentioned as forming
the second charge, and a duplicate for the cost, were
found upon him, all of which property had been stolen
from the house in Ship-alley, where the portmanteau was
found, and which belonged to and were now identified by
Mr. Siert.
With respect to the portmanteau, it wee recognisedas the property of Mahler, by M. Dermaid, an attaché of
the Swiss Consul General, in consequence of there hav-
ing been found among its contents the certificate
of Mahler's birth, his passport, and a document from
the Federal government of America, establishing his right
to a pension for his military services during the late war.
The prisoner was silent when asked what he had to say,
and in order to complete the depositions,
Mr. Alderman Stone remanded him for a week.
WESTMINSTER.

John Charles Patterson, described as of 73, West-street,
Brighton, gentleman, was charged on remand with stealing
two pianos, one the property of Mr. Peachey, of Bishops-
gate-street, and, the other belonging to Messrs. Burling, of
Orchard-street, Portman-square.
Mr. W. D. Smyth, solicitor, prosecuted ; Mr. James
Lewis, of Ely-place, defended.
Evidence was given to show that Mr. Burling's piano
was pledged at Mr. Soames's by a man who went with pri-
soner to the shop, and that Mr. Peachey's piano was
pledged at Mr. Smith's, Sloane-square, on the 14th of May,
only two days after it was delivered to prisoner.
Evidence having been given to show where Mr. Peachey's
piano was,
Mr. Smyth said be intended further to prosecute pri-
soner ,for forgery and obtaining money under false pre-
tences. When the piano was taken to Mr. Smith's he re-
fused to take it unless some proof were given of its having
been bought by some one. The person who offered it in
pledge then went away, and returned with a forged receipt
purporting to have been given by Mr. Simpson, Mr.
Peachey's agent, to John Patterson on payment and pur-
chase. Upon the faith of that money was advanced. The
piano was taken in by Mr. Smith's manager, who had left
him, and now lived at Bromley, and had the piano in his
I possession. He should be able to prove the prisoner's
handwriting on that receipt, and would ask for a remand
to produce Mr. C. Smith's late foreman, who hid the ma-
nagement of the whole transaction from beginning to end.
Mr. Lewis apprehended, in point of law, that as long as
prisoner had these on hire he could pledge them if be
pleased, and there would be no felony.
Mr. Arnold said it was for the jury to say whether the
prisoner intended to appropriate them to his own use at
the time he obtained them.
Prisoner was remanded for a week.
THAMES.

Edward Sheridan, landlord of a beer house, in Warwick-
street, Blackfriars-road, a superannuated police-sergeant,
and " foreign correspondent" in the service of Mr. William
Nunn, signal lamp manufacturer, in Ratliff-highway,
appeared on bail for the second time, before Mr. Paget,
to answer a charge of libel against M. d'Alberquerque, a
ship chandler and sail maker, in Ratoliff-highway.
The prosecutor is a native of Brazil. Thaw was some
litigation between him and Mr. Nunn, arising out of an
alleged infringement of a patent for a signal lamp by M.
d'Alberquerque, and proceedings in Chancery terminated
in a kind of compromise, each party having to pay their
own coda. Since the termination of that snit the libels
had been publisted ; one of them was in the form of a song,
and, like the other, imputed gross misconduct and immo-
rality to the prosecutor, and terminated with following
lines : _ _ _

" In order that my sad song
Shall live a little time,
I name the doer of the wrong,
And put Albarquerque in rhyme.
The derby wretch be did the deed,
Or said he did it, which was worm ;
He caused a lady's heart to bleed,
And earned bar mother's mine.