The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-20 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Robert aril Burin was brought before the Lord Mayor
for further examination on the charge of embezzling a
large sum of money belonging to his employens, Messrs.
M'Alpine, and Co., calico printers, Cummersdale,
Stead.
Mr. Humphreys again appeared for the prosecution ;
and Mr. Merriman, of the firm of Merriman and Buck-
land, for the defence.
It will be recollected that the prisoner wee the London
agent of the prosecutors at a salary of 2801. a year, and
that having engaged in private trading he appropriated
about 4,600/. out of the moneys passing through his hands
as agent to Messrs. Stead, M'Alpme, and Co. On his
defalcations being discovered he gave up a list of securi-
ties, but a warrant was subsequently appliedrg for and he
was given into custody on the present
Yesterday some further evidence was given as to the
payment of money to the prisoner which he had not
accounted for, and the case for the prosecution was then
closed.

Mr. Merriman, for the defence, said he would ;wove
that there had been a suppression by the prosecution of
some most material facts connected with the case. On the
sth or 6th of. December, 1867, it was discovered that the
prisoner had been guilt of defalcations, or alleged defal-
cations, and he that his conduct had been highly
improper, and that he might with justice have been given
into custody. But the prosecutors did not then give him
into custody ; they received from him a statement of
what he (Mr. Memman) called his assets, and so far they
treated the affair purely and distinctly as a matter of
account ; and the prisoner attended upon Mr. Harper, the
accountant of the firm, for about two months, piing
through the accounts with him, and giving him
every possible information. The firm also ob-
tained from him. through Mr. Bailey, who acted in the
double capacity of attorney for the prosecutors and the
prisoner, the property of his other trade creditors ; and it
was only after that, on the 24th of February, that they
instituted criminal proceedings against him by laying an
information which conveyed but a partial statement of
the circumstances. To a great extent the securities

handed over by the prisoner had been realised ; and he
submitted that, after the witnesses he should call, ad-
verse though they were, no jury would convict him of
the charge which had been brought against him by the
prosecutors in the ease. He expected that Mr. Stead
would have been present, but as he was not here he
stoked for a remand, in order that he might have an oppor-
tunity of putting him into the witness box.
In compliance with this request the prisoner was again
remanded until this day (Thursday) week.

Frederick IViiider,aged 21, of 69, Jamas-rola, Cale-
donian-road, described on the charge sheet as a butcher,
was charged before Yr. Cooke, on remand, with feloniously
receiving on the 28th of February, 1888, at No. 9 yard.
Ashby-street, Somers-town, 12 lambs, the property of
Mesas. Elmer and Jenkins, salesmen, well knowing them
to have been stolen.

Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, prosecuted, and Mr. Moody, bar-
rister, defended.

To 'make the case properly understood, it my be stated
that during the past two or three years between 300 and
400 sheep and lambs and some bullocks have been stolen
from and around the metropolis, the principal robberies
taking place in the northern suburb& On 114 28th at