The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-19 00:00:00

THAMES.

EMBEZZLEMENT 73Y AN OMNIBUS CONDUCTOR —Charles
Emmett, an omnibus conductor, aged 22, badge No. 2,640,
and dwelling at the time of his apprehension at No. 9,
Manchester-road, Millwall, Poplar, was brought before
Mr. Woolrych charged with fraudulently appropriating to
his own use various sums of money he had received for and
on account of the Illillwall and Cubitt-town Omnibus

Company.
Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, stated the case for the prosecu,
tion. The Millwall and Cubitt-town Omnibus Company
were the owners of two vehicles constantly running in the
day time between Limehouse (near the parish church), and
Cubitt-town, in the Isis of Dogs, Poplar, passing in their
journeys several important factories. The prisoner
had been in the employ of the company three months,
and it was his duty to receive the fares and
to make correct returns of the money he received of pas-
sengers on each and every journey. For some time
past the prisoner had returned £3 per week less on the
average than the conductor of the other omnibus. The
prisoner delivered a ticket every night for each journey
he had made during the day, and showing the amount of
money received and the number of passengers carried. The
prisoner had falsified his accounts and made a return of a
less number of passengers than he Lad actually carried,
and a less amount of money than he had received. Two
to watch the pri-
fmarpeans ywere 3d. and 4d.
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On one journey, on Wednesday last, there was a
deficiency of 6d., and upon another, the same
day, ls. On Friday, on three journeys, the pri-
soner defrauded the company of is sd. On Saturday
there was a deficiency on five journeys of 2s sd.
Mr. Woolrych inquired the nuraberof journeys per day?
Mr. Stoddart replied 14 or seven each way.
John Clark, a watchman in the employ of the St. Ka-
therine Dock Company, who had been employed by the
prosecutors to watch the prisoner's operations, proved the
defalcations on the journeys he had travelled in the omni-
bus of which the prisoner was conductor.
passengers he took up did
awingthehnee lock entrances, and people
bridgesfor the admission of ships
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would not wait until they were closed again, and alighted
and went away without paying their fares.
Clark, who said that no disputes
prisoner and any of
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was opened, and a delay
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Mr. Stoddart—Yes, sir, of Is.
After some further evidence Mr. Stoddart asked for a
remand.
Mr. Woolrych remanded the prisoner until Tuesday next.

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Night.—A few days ago, Capt. Heard, R.N.,
the Whitburn boat, of the National Lifeboat Institution,
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Rob Roy, of Sunderland, bound from that port to the river
Tyne. There were four of the crew
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men in the tug. The alarm was given, when the lifeboat
was instantly manned and launched, and went off to their
relief. It was half flood, and there was a heavy sea on, and
seven
the morning was very dark and foggy. The sea had washed
the tug's boat away, and had the men not been so speedily
rescued they would all have perished, as it was a rising tide,
and there was a hole in the bottom of the vessel, which not
very long afterwards becam Steeltyl wreck. It was found
that she Lad struck on the "' Rocks off Whitburn.
THE FLORIDA..--ACOOrdillg to a letter from Brest
of the 16th the Confederate corvette Florida has
made her trial trips, which were perfectly successful, and
her new Captain, Maurice Richard, had waited. on the vice-
admiral and other authorities of the lort to announce his
approaching departure and to take leave. The letter adds
that Captain Richards has informed the captain of the
Federal Kearsage, which is still sate off the port,
he is ready, on leaving, to accept mbat with him, any-
where out of the limit of the French waters. Perhaps this
is mere bravado, but the people at Brest expect a fight be-
tween the two frigates.
FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE GREAT
EXIIIBITION.—NapIeon Chaix and Co. have just
brought out the second edition of " Bappoits Officiels des
Membres de la Section Frangaise du J ury International
sur l'Expoeition Universelle a Londre3," published under
the direction of M. Michel Chevalier. This new edition
contains the report of Prince Napoleon, the speech of the
Emperor, and the list of the prizes awarded to the French
exhibitors,