The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY AT THE UNION BANK OF LONDON BY A
CLERK.—Henry Gordon Palmer, about 20 years of age, a
clerk, in the Argyle-place branch of the Union Bank of
London, and residing at No. 19, Palace-gardens-terrace,
Kensington, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt, with steal-
ing a £lO Bank of England note, numbered 09943, the pro-
perty of Mr Peter Northall Lawrie, and others, trustees of
the Union Bank of London.

Mr Campbell, of the firm of Campbell and Davis, War-
w:ck-street, attentcd for the prosecution, and in opening the
case said the prisoner entered the bank on the 20th of Sep-
tember lee, and on the same evening a £lO note was missed.
Notice was immediately given at the Bank of England, and
the note was paid in, and subsequently traced to the
prisoner.

Mr Horace Edward Jay, one of the cashiers at the Union
Bank, said on the 20th September last he received a num-
ber of Bank of England notes from Messrs. Hurst and
Blackett's, and catered the total of them in a book and put
them in a drawer till they were taken away by another
cashier.

Mr Robert Stuart, another cashier at the bank, produced
a book containing the entry of the note produced, and sev3•
ral others. After counting the notes—those spoken of by
the last witness—he placed them in a tin by his side, and
the tin was by his side all day till be went up to Alr Jay,
in the evening.
Mr Oglevy, a clerk in the bank, said thst at the end of
the day, the 26th Sept., he received an account of all the
notes received in the course of the day by the different
cashiers, for the purpose of going
through the totals to see
if they agreed with the cashier's waste books. He found
£lO short, and had to trace the numbers of the notes through
Mr Gay's waste book, and then found a £lO note missing.

Henry Colegate, in the employ of Mr Smith, the keeper
of billiard rooms, at No. 82, Regent-street, said, on the 26th
Sept., about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner played
a game of pool at the rooms, and in payment of Gs. gave him
a £lO note to get cashed for him. He could not say whether
the note produced was the same. He gave it to a fellow
servant to get cashed, and on receiving the change gave it
to the prisoner. The prisoner two or three days afterwards
called upon him and asked him to try and get the number
of the note for him as he wished to trace it.

Charles Henwick, also in Mr Smith's employ, proved
seeing the prisoner playing a game of pool and receiving a
£lO for the last witness. He wrote the name of Colegate
on the note. He could not swear the note produced was
the same. He got tha note changed by the foreman to Mr
Wenkheim, a tailor, down stairs.
Mr Campbell asked the witness to again look at the note,
and to say whether the word "gate" was not part of the
name " Colegate" he had written, the rest of the name being
torn off, and the witness said it was.
Mr Wenkheim's foreman proved changing a £lO note for
the last witnesg.

Mr Charles Earles, from the Bank of England, produced
the note, and said it was paid in on the 28th Sept. amongst
a large number of others, from the London and Westmin-
ster Bank.

Mr Thos. Phillips, the sub-manager of the Argyle place
branch of the bank, said the prisoner entered the bank as a
clerk on the naorrring of the 26th September, the note being
missed the same evening.