The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-07 00:00:00

E.IIBEZZLEMENT BY A COMMERCIAL
TRAVELLER.

A day or two ago, William Holloway, a highly respectable
.00king individual, was placed at the bar of Guildhall police
:mart, charged with embezzling various sums, amounting in all
to about £l,OOO, the property of his master. Mr. Wontner
appeared for the prosecution, and having briefly stated the case,
called Mr. George Hyde; a stationer, of Fleet street, who said :
The prisoner has been nine years in my employment as com-
mercial traveller, and I paid • him by commission-alone of.
12t. per cent. On Saturday, the 25th.of October last, I saw
the prisoner at my house of business, at Cl, Fleet street, and
I had a conversation with him upon the subject of some
money which he bad received. I charged him with having
received moneys which ho had no right to ; and he, said he
had been driven by the pressure of circumstances, bad
debts, &e., to appropriate certain sums, amounting to about
£3OO. In consequence of ,this, I took hi:n with me to my
solicitor's office, when we entered into a fresh arrangement.
I told him 'I would li77a. nothing more to do with him, and
asked him what means he had of repaying me the sun ho had
improperly appropriated to his own use. I ultimately sent
him into 'the countrV, upon the understanding that he should
go on the Etsteru denudes route. He was to confino' his
journey to Yarmouth, Lowestoft, and Sudbury, and on
receiving moneys he was to remit them by each day's post as
he received them. He went that journey on the 27th of
October last, and returned on the tad of November, when he
cellos upon ,me at my house at Twickenham. After some
conversation about his former deficiency, I asked him if ho had_
bean to Sudbury, and he said he had not. I asked him when
he intended going, and he said the following day. I then asked
him if be had received the anionnt of £24. 4> .43, due from a
Mr. Fulcher, of Sudbury, for' goods delivered, and ho said he
hal not. On the following day, I foiled a letter at my
houso in Fleet street from Mr. Fuicher, stating ho ifad
paid the prisoner the amount in question a day, or two
previous.. On the same morning, after I had received
that letter, I saw the prisoner, and again' asked him if he
had received -Fulcher's money, and ho replied that ho had
not. _ I then produced Fulcher's letter, and he then. said ho
had got the money. I saw the prisoner again on the 51h of
November, two days afterwards, but from that time to tire
present I have not been able to find him, On the 27th 'of
November, I applied to Sir Tunes Duke at this court for a
warrant to apprehend.the prisoner.' Ile has not accounted to
me for this money, neither has ha paid me any part thereof.
Cross examined by. the
.prisoner : There was an agreethent in
writing in existence between u', but it is not now in force. I
put an end to that' agreement on the 25th of October last,'
when the fresh arrangement was made. The new arrangement
was partly in writing, and the remainder verbal. The prisoner
said : The journey to Yarmouth and Lowestoft was strictly
complied with, and-I was going to Sudbury, but Mr. Hyde told
me not to leave town. The amount paid by Mr. Fulcber, 'of
Sudltury,Avas paid by cheque, and not in money, and Mr. Hyde
has had part of the money. £l7 was paid to him in the pre-
sence of a gentleman, now in court. A police constable deposed
to taking the prizoner into custody near Chelmsford. A
packet of letters found on bite was handed to the magistrate.
One of these letters was from prisoner's daughter, advising him
to emigrate to Canada, as he would be sure to be taken if he
remained here. An adjournment of the case being applied for
on both sides, the prisoner was remanded.