The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-19 00:00:00

TITE SUN, LONDON, TITUR DA EVENING, MAY 19, 1864.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Days

MANSION HOUSE.

CHARGE OF EMBEZZLING £4,000.—Captain Robert
Boyle Miller, Lane's Hotel, St. Albans-place, Haymarket,
was placed before Sir B. W. Carden, charged with em-
bezzling (within the last three months) the sum of £4,000
and upwards, received by him as servant to Richard
Rylanda and others, shipowners, Grosvenor Buildings,
Tithebarn-street, Liverpool.
Mr. Maynard, for the prosecution, said the prisoner was
formerly in the employ of Messrs. Rylands and Siddon, of
Liverpool, shipowners, and was captain of the ship
Richard Ryland, which sailed in the month of July
last from Liverpool, to Calcutta, with a cargo of cork.
It would be his duty to sell the freight, receive the
money, disburse the expenses of the ship, and then trans-
mit the proceeds of the voyage to the owners at Liver-
pool. The ship Richard Ryland, of' which the prisoner
was master, sailed from Liverpool for Calcutta with a
cargo of cork, The cargo was sold, and the prisoner
received the money at the Mauritius, but the owners
have never received any portion of the £4,000 received
by the prisoner, neither had they since heard anything
of the ship commanded by the prisoner belonging to
Messrs, Ryland, which was of the value of £25,000 He
should merely submit enough evidence to enable the magis-
trate to send the prisoner to Liverpool to meet the charge.
Mr. Maynard then called,
Sergt Spittal, who said—ln consequence of instructions
received from the Liverpool police, I, in company with Pack-
man, took the prisoner into custody, and charged him with
embezzling the sum of 4000, the property of his employers,
Messrs. Ryland, Seddon, and Co., the owners of the ship
Richard Ryland. He said the charge was false. We tools,
him to the Bow-lane Station, where be was searched by
Sergeant Packman, I told Lim where he had received
the money, but he said it was untrue. The prisoner this
morning said he was surprised the firm should suppose
that he was guilty of anything wrong—that the bill he got
in the Mauritius for the money deposited in the bank, he
had obtained and changed for safety for his employers. If
he had intended anything Wrong he had' a great deal
mote money in Calcutta; that he intended to go down to
Liverpool and settle with his employers next Saturday.
Alderman Carden—Any question, Miller, to ask witness P
Prisoner—Oh no, sir, what he says is perfectly correct.
Sergeant Packman—l was in company with Spittal
when we apprehended the prisoner yeaterday at Lane's
Hotel. When at the station I searched the prisoner. On
his person I found £6 lOs 7d, and in his room I found £49
in cash, two £5O Bank of England notes, a deposit note on
the Stockton Bank for £l,lOO, dated May 12, in the name o
Robert Miller. I also found a bank book, showing a cred
for £2,800, in the name of Robert Miller.

Alderman Carden—Did he say whose money it was ?
Witness—He said it was his own. On his way to the
Mansion-house he said, " I cannot think how they think I
intend to do wrong, because if I had wished to do so I could
have done so when I was in the East Indies, and had plenty
of money. I intended to go to Liverpool on Saturday, but
I've been fool enough to stop in London a few days. He
said nothing about where he received the money.
Mr Walter Partridge, of the firm of Fletcher, Parr, and
Co., Leadenhall street, said they were agents to Ryland and
Seddon, of Liverpool. They own a ship called the Richard
Ryland. The duty of the prisoner would be to disburse
the debts incurred by the ship, and transmit the balance to
Liverpool. The owners ought to have received intelli•
gence from Calcutta relative to the money three months
ago. The ship sailed in July last. We charge the priso-
ner with having embezzled the £4,000.

Alderman Carden—You ought to have written to your
owners long before this,

Prisoner—l wrote them four or five letters.
Witness—Nothing has ever been received.

George Peacock-1 went with the prisoner to a bill bro-
ker. I saw a bill for £l,OOO produced for Captain Mi!ler's
endorsement. The bill was endorsed. Captain Miller told
me the money was to be handed over in hard cash for ship-
ment to Bombay.

Alderman Carden said he did not think it very possible
that the prisoner could require bullion for the purpose of
taking it to the owners. lie should order the prisoner to be
taken to Liverpool to be dealt with there. He thought the
City police deserved great credit for getting hold of the
prisoner b'etore he could leave London.

The prisoner will be formally brought up again to-mor.
row, but it will be meroly for the signing of the depositions

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

FORGERY BY A CLERK OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY....-
Joseph Bingham, a young man, clerk, in the employ of the
Library Company, was charged before Mr Knox
with forging and uttering an order for the payment of the
sum of £37 15s 4d.

Mr Thomas Tames, jun., clerk at Messrs Ransom's Bank,
1, Pall.mall East, said that on the 6th of April last the
prisoner presented the cheque produced and asked him to
cash it. He did so, the Library Company having an account
at the bank. The amount of the cheque was £37 15s 4d,
Mr Henry Fowler, secretary of the Library Company,
said the cheque was not endorsed by him as it purported to
to be. All cheques were endorsed by him ;no other person
connected with the company had any business to do so.
In answer to Mr Knox, Mr Fowler said the prisoner had
been in the employ of the company nearly a year.
Sergeant C. Robinson, of the detective department, Scot-
land Yard, proved taking the prisoner into custody at New-
town, Merionethshire, and said that on showing prisoner the
cheque he admitted writing the whole of it himself, stating
that he was very sorry, bat that he had been drinking at
the time.

Mr Knox said the writing on the cheque did not look
lik that of a man who had been drinking.
The prisoner, who had no questions to ask, was committed
to the Central Criminal Court for trial.
THE ENCOURAGERS 01 DISHONESTY AMONGST SER-
VANTS.-Mr Knox.received the following letter this morn-
ing

"May 18.—Sir,--May I ask you to lend your aid hi sup-
pressing another evil which is very prevalent at the West-
end of London at this season, and is also disseminated by
means of handbills dropped into areas of an evening. As the
system alluded to i 3 profitable to the servants of families,
it is not likely that it will be made public as the other
has been [handbills dropped
an astrology imposture] through the magnanimity of " a
servant." I refer to the bills which state that the "best
• ~ • given for every price is conceivable article of transfer in
down areas respecting
the household, from glass, china, broken silver, down to
bones, fat, rags, &c. There is no address on these hand-
bills, but an intimation is given that a call will be made in
the morning for anything that may be got ready. The
police might do much to check the system, if
- ,
they had instructions from their superiors to
directiste
ready to expose abuses of the kind—may be of great service
in opening the eyes of the heads of households to the
ne
tehoefi rt h
es e attentionpra c
tices to it,
am it, and the press—always
Sir, yours. &c.,
"PRO BONO PUBLICO."
Another letter has been received from a person complain-
ex
ino. of the hand -bill nuisance, and requesting that the
scamp whose name it bears may be exposed. The hand-
bill is headed " Your Destiny, Matrimony Made Easy : or,
How to Win a Lover," and the fellow who issued it calla
himself
"qualified professor of astrology," and eeems to
abe in great want of postage stomps.

was charged
WESTMINSTER.
UNLAWFULLY ENTERING A ii
virithunla unlawfully entering
OUSE.—Charles Danby,
Lower Grosvenor-place, and further at-
tempting to steal a lead pipe, the
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property of the Marquis
oaafhniJOiVudh edsn Drew,
seletatm-aigNnesocit
a 7, a
emr.ssnietant to Mr. liaines, auctioneer to the
Marquis's estate, said that at 6 o'clock on the previous
evening his attention was called to the door of the house,
No. 7, Lower Grosvenor-place, being open. The house
vasacy
Some boys ran out of a
k doormp
was a pick near him, and some lead pipe had been removed
from the wall and hacked in two,
beempty,
from and
the witness
ie a ds . w
The prisoner was then
given into custody. went in.
found the prisoner, There
Richard Mallon, porter to gr. Harms, said that he lived
at No, 8, and heard a noise at the time, and caught the
leads. He was very much confused, and ran away.
Witness followed and captured him. There was a pickaxe
near him, and some lead pipe had been removed. He said
he knew nothing about the pickaxe, and had not touched
the lead.
Ambrose Juttan, 303 B, said
wtrihtah fatltalhitnegap. i quarterek Taxh eemarks on
.
past six
he took the prisoner into custody. He said he wanted to
thelo look kw
al afterl
and
n tdh
pipe
i pwea
correspondedl l t hat was liea
James Dixon, a contractor, proved that the prisoner was
at work for him near the spot. He did not know what
business he had there. and knew nothing about the pick.
Prisoner said the pick did not belong to him, He was
looking after a wall that was falling, and had not got into
the house for an unlawful purpose.
Mr. Arnold remanded him, taking bail for his reappear-
ance.