The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-23 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 18G4.

thing.
'Witness continued—He took possession of the room a
few days after (about the 23d Ju'y), and the only furniture
it contained was a table, the circulars, and some ink, His
name was painted up on the 29-h of July.
Inspector Mitchell, of the City Police, here said—The
witness 'Wharton is a friend of mine, and I went with him
to Mr. Lee's chambers, at Lincoln's Inn—the place ap-
pointed by the prisoner for the payment of the £2o—and
there I saw a gentleman whom, however, now I don't
believe to have been Mr. Lee; and from the manner
in which the prisoner acted on that occasion, I was
so entirely deceived, that I advised my friend to
accept the situation, which he did. The agreement was
then signed, and the prisoner took the two LIU-notes from
out of my hand and gave them to the gentleman present,
and told him to place them to the account of the Jerusalem
College.
Mr Vaughan—That does not carry the case any further,
and therefore it need not be added to the depositions. Are
there any other cases ?
The police-sergeant said ho had a number of persons
present who had been deceived by the prisoner.
A gentleman said he had let the prisoner a house on the
representation that he was secretary to the Bishop of Lon-
don. After he had occupied it for some time he went away,
leaving the rent unpaid. Various tradesmen at the time
supplied him with articles on the belief that he was the per-
son he had said, but had never been paid for their goods.
Mr Vaughan—This is matter far a civil tribunal, Have
you anything else.
A foreigner said he had entrusted the prisoner with a
quantity of valuable cameos for disposal, on his represent-
ing himself to be the secretary of Jerusalem College, but
he had never received the money for those he had dis-
posed of.
Mr Vaughan—That also may stand aside as a debt.
Thet ollowing additional charge was entered into :
Mr. Thomas Williams, of Church row, Stoke Newington,
said—l sin a managing clerk to Messrs Wright and Bolder,
15, London-street, Fenchurch- street. In 1854, the prisoner
was engaged as an office-boy by our firm, at a salary of Bs.
per week. He remained there about four years. On the
Ist of March, 18(31, I met him in the Temple,
and he then told me he was under secretary to the
Bishop of London, special messenger to Cardinal Wiseman,
and he then handed me his card. Ile asked me to lend him
£3 10s. He told me he had married a lady of fortune, the
' daughter of Colonel Phillips. That Colonel Phillips was
an attendant on her Majesty at Buckingham Palace and
Windsor Castle.
Piisoner—l am perfectly astonished ac your representa-
tions and your attendance here.
Witness—No doubt you are. Ho further told me that
his wife had presented him with a living at Normanby in
Yorkshire ; that he frequently had to attend to his duty
there, and that he was then looking out for a curate. I
believed his representations and lent him various sums
amounting in all to £l5. 1
Mr Vaughan—Was it upon the representations that he
made that you lent him the money ?
Witness—Decidedly. 1 believed all he told me, and
I felt glad that such a fortunate change had taken place in
his affairs. I wrote to him repeatedly for the money I had
lent him, but I only got 10s. back.
Prisoner—I shall not ask any questions at present.
Sergeant Druscovich said—l have made inquiries at the
secretary's office of the Bishop of London—Messrs Bruder
and Dunning, Parliament-street—and the prisoner is alto-
gether unknown there.
This evidence completed that case,
Mr Rosaspirn, tailor, 11, Harrington-street, Pimlico,
' said about May 30 the prisoner represented himself to be
a clergyman of the Church of England—that he belonged
to the East-end division, and was one of the Bishop of
London's men. He ordered a loose coat—the one he is
at present wearing—such an one that he could throw oft
after attending to the poor people in the alleys and courts.
I supplied him with the coat mainly on the supposition
that the representations made by the prisoner were true.
I have never been paid for the article.
Mr Vaughan—That will make out three cases against
the prisoner. Have you anything to say before I commit
you for trial on these charges?
Prisoner—No, sir ; I reserve my defence. I shall be
able satisfactorily to prove the inaccuracy of the charges
1 against me at my trial, and until that time I shall say
nothing. .
Mr Vaughan—Before I close the case I may as well in-
form you that letters have been recceived from Messrs.
Foster, of Oxford, asking for certain information relative
lesto
you, and the handwriting of the letters ordering the arti
exactly corresponds with yours, and information to that
effect will be forwarded to them.
The prisoner was then fully committed to take his trial
on three charges. _

cigar, introduced the piece of paper and covered it with
more tobacco leaf. He also so peculiarly marked the cup-
board door that he could tell whether any one went to it,
and ho watched it day by day, but without effect for some
time. The prisoner was errand boy in prosecutor's service,
and it was his duty to go into the place on Fridays to
clean it. He did so last Friday, and while in the room
went to the cupboard and took some cigars, but not any of
those marked. This morning ho went there again to clean,
and prosecutor saw him take a handful cigars, seized him,
and found some upon him.
The -magistrate opened one of the cigars and found the
name curiously inserted.
Prisoner said nothing in reply to the charge. He was
remanded till Tuesday.

T HAM ES.
CUTTING AND WOUNDING.—Herman Menus, a German,
.kin-dresser, aged 38, of No. 11, Lambeth-street, White-
chapel, was brought Mr Partridge charged with cutting
and wounding Timothy Bryan, an Irish labourer, of No.
16, Lambeth-street.
The prosecutor did not appear, and it was stated that he
either did not care about the wound as a serious one inflicted
upon h'no. or that he had been compensated by the prisoner's
csuntrytnen. The Germans have been in the practice of
keeping prosecutors and witnesses out of the way on occasions
like the present.
It appeared from the evidence of a police constable of the
divition, that he was called to a disturbance in Lambeth-
street laet night, and found a young man named Timothy
Bryan' lying in the gutter and bleeding profusely from a
wound under the left ear. He raised Bryan from the
ground and asked him who had wounded him, to which he
replied that he was having a row with another man, and
that the prisoner, who was present, went into his own
house, brought out a knife, and cut him down the cheek.
Mr John Cowley, surgeon, of 11, High-street, White-
chapel, said he was called upon to attend the wounded man
in the Leman-street station-house last night. There was a
wound on the left cheek by the side of the ear, an inch and
a half loog. Considerable force was used. The prosecutor
was very bad, and bad a fit in the station-house, which
'asked some time.
The prisoner in defence said that be was coming home
from his work and a lot of boys fell on him near his own
door, and the ono he was supposed to have wounded struck
him two blows on the face, and followed him to his own
house, No. 11, Lambeth-street. He had two cans in his
hand, and Bryan was about to strike him again when he
raised one of the cans and struck him with it. He used no
knife whatever.
The policeman, on being recalled, said the person struck
was a lad of 19 or 20.
Mr Partridge said these cutting and wounding cases had
become so alarmingly common that the investigation must
be continued, and the prosecut ft and other witnesses sum
moned. He remanded the prisoner, and issued the necessary
summonseJ for the attendance of Bryan and the others.

Serious Charge of Fraud.

Mr. Samuel Laing on the Trade and Finance
of Britain.