The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-09 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT .—LIVERPOOL, DEC. 8.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Cresswell.)
James Kelly, aged 30, Job Wainwright, aged 28, and
Patrick Morice, aged 28, were indicted for having, at
Manchester, forged an order of one William Wainright,
for the delivery of eight bales of cotton, and for having
uttered the same, knowing it to be forged.
Mr. Monk and Mr. Higgin appeared for the prosecu-
tion ; Mr. Wheeler-defended the prisoner Wainwright ;
the other prisoners were undefended.
It appeared that on the 17th of June last, the prisoner
Kelly hired a carter, named Charles Townley, to cart
eight bales of cotton from Carvers and Co., the carriers,
in Manchester, to Michell, Lucas, and Co's. warehouse,
at Stockport ; and at the time delivered to him (Town-
ley) an order for the delivery of the cotton, which he
handed over to Wainwright, a clerk at Carver arid Co's.,
from whom he received the cotton to take to Stockport.
Kelly had appointed to meet Townley at a place in
Great Jackson-street, but he met him instead at the top
of Medlock-street, and told him to sheet up. as it was
raining, and that he would not have the bales sent on
that night. He then took the bales to Potter and Bar-
row's, in Bateman-buildings, where he left them, and
Kelly paid him for the carting. The prisoner Morice had
during the day been to Potter and Barrow's, and offered
their manager to sell him some bales of cotton
a bargain, as he owed Potter a small balance.
And when Kelly appeared with them in the evening
they were purchased by the manager, and 401. were
paid on account, and Kelly gave a receipt in the name
of Wm. Wainwright. An appointment was made for
Kelly to receive the balance ; and by reason of his not
keeping it, the manager's suspicions were aroused, and
information was given to the police. And it then ap-►
peared that Carver and Co., of Manchester, were in the
habit of receiving cotton for Michell, Lucas, and Co., of
Stockport ; and William Wainwright, who was a clerk
to the latter firm, was accustomed to sign the orders for
its delivery, and had occasionally employed the prisoner
Wainwright, who was his brother, as a carter to carry
the goods. By this means the delivery orders in ques-
tion had been forged. The three prisoners had been
seen together on the morning of the 18th of June, at
Mr. Nicoll's shop, in Manchester, and in the afternoon
they were all at a beer-shop, kept by a man named Ro-
bertshaw, where Kelly had some gold in his hand, which
he and Morice quarrelled about. Wainwright and
Kelly had on the morning of the 17th tried to engage
another carter, who would not undertake the job.
Mr. Wheeler addressed the jury for Wainwright, and
contended that the fact of his having been seen with the
two other prisoners before and after the robbery, was
not enough to convict him, and which was the only evi-
dence against him.
His Lordship having summed up, the jury returned a
verdict of guilty against all the prisoners.
His Lordship then sentenced them to be transported
for seven years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

DOW-STREET.—Thomas Bowditch, who had been
for several years employed as a clerk and messenger to
Mr. Farren, the lessee of the Olympic Theatre, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, charged with em-
bezzling money which had been entrusted to him for the
payment of newspaper advertisements.
It appeared from the statement of Mr. Wm. Farren,
jun., that he had been in the habit of paying the pri-
soner a certain sum of money every Saturday, to defray
the costs of the advertisements of the theatre which were
to be inserted in the daily and weekly newspapers dur-
ing the following week. It was his duty to see to the
insertion of the advertisements, and to produce the re-
ceipts given to him from the various offices. His con-
stant neglect of this latter duty induced his employers
to suspect that he did not make all the payments as
required, and eventually he was discharged from his
, situation. Mr. Farren subsequently received an intimation
from the proprietor of one of the weekly newspapers that,
for several months past, the usual advertisements relat-
ing to the Olympic Theatre had not been sent for
insertion. This complaint led to an inquiry at other
newspaper offices, and it was then ascertained that with
respect to two of the morning journals (the Chronicle
Herald), none of Mr. Farren's advertisements had been
received for insertion since the 18th of October last,
although (upon the testimony of Mr. Farren, jun.) it
was proved that the prisoner had instructions to take
them to each journal every week, and was paid the
amount charged for them in advance.
The prisoner, on being taken into custody, admitted
that he had appropriated some of the money, but was
willing to refund it, it an opportunity were given to him
of doing so.
One case was partially gone into, but, it being deemed
desirable to have further inquiries made, and to ascer-
tain, if possible, the full extent of the various embezzle-
ments committed, Mr. Henry suggested that the case
should be remanded for a few days.
Mr. Farren was anxious, for the sake of the prisoner's
family, to deal with him as leniently as possible, but
Mr. Henry said it was a very serious offence, and one
that could not be disposed of summarily.

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bed, and was awakened at nearly half-past two o'clock
by the servant. I found, upon going down stairs, that
the till had been robbed of 11. Bs., the money which had
been left in it. I saw a hat on the leads of the house,
and sent my servant to fetch it in. The hat was bent
in
the at the crown, as if against. the sash of a window in
hurry to get out. (A hat was here produced.)
poSergeant Jackson, II division of the metropolitan
lice
when, on the 13th of last month, he was taken into cus-
tody by another constable for breaking into a house. A
ha was then found, which was supposed to be his, but
it was afterwards thought not to be his. When he was
taken into custody he had a hat on which, after looking
at, I marked inside in a peculiar manner. The hat now
produced is that hat which Iso marked. The mark
was, the moment I saw
by me. and examined the hat, identified
Mary Ann Colborn, of Crown-place Aldgate -
street, aid—The moment I saw the, prisoner I said tho