The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-15 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

POST.OFFICE ROBBERY.-1-lenry William Spencer,
letter-carrier, was placed at the bar charged with stealing
two letters, the property of the Postmaster-General.
Letter-carrier No. 23 said he had been in the post-office
27 years. The prisoner assisted in the sorting of letters
previous to his leaving the office to deliver the letters. Last
evening he was engaged in dividing the letters into different
classes. After he had finished he took up his own packet
of letters for delivery in Lower Thames-street. He then
saw him " trying" the letters, and having selected one he
saw him place it between the folds of a French newspaper.
He (witness) immediately reported what he had seen to his
superior officer, and then lett the office to deliver his letters.
Walter Smee, the constable attached to the post-office,
said he stopped the prisoner last night as he was leaving
the gate of the building. He took him to Gardaer's pri-
vate room under the office. He had a bag of letters with
him.

Mr Chare, one of the inspectors of letter-carriers at the
General Post Office, said he was present in Mr Gardner's
room when the prisoner was brought in by Smee. Ho took
possession of the prisoner's letter bag, and found a French
newspaper amongst the bundle of letters, within the folds
of which he discovered two letters. One was addressed
to " Valentine Wright, 95, Fleet-stree.:, City of London,"
and the other Messrs Waterton and Son, Birchin-lane. He
asked him how the letters came into the newspaper, and he
said he knew nothing about them. The two letters are not
in the prisoner's delivery, They belong to the classes whom
the prisoner, previous to his leaving the Post Office, was
engaged in sorting.
Mr. Gardner, one of the senior clerks of the Post Office,
said—Smee, the officer, brought the prisoner into his room
last night. He saw the last witness take the two
letters produced from the folds of a newspaper.
The corners of one of the letters had been torn,
so that it could be seen to contain postage stamps.
The letter of Mesrs. Waterton, on being opened was found
to contain 117 penny postage stamps. The letter of Mr
Wright contained two directed envelopes with a postage
stamp attached. _ _ .

The prisoner who denied all knowledge of the letters
being within the newspaper, was fully committed for trial,

WESTMINSTER.

SINGULAR CHARGE OF BlGAMY,—Richard Batley, a
man about 40 years of age, of very forbidding appearance,
was placed at the bar, before Mr Selfe, charged with felo-
niously intermarrying with Priscilla Moffatt. his former
wife being alive at the time.
The second wife was put into the witness-box and, being
sworn, was about to give evidence, when Mr Selfe said he
would not hear her testimony until he had had proof of the
first marriage.

The second wife, a tall and rather a fine woman, then
stood down, and Mr Selfe inquired where Sarah White,
whose name appeared' on the police-sheet as a witness,
was.

Mr Hawkes, an inspector of the B division, said that she
was a very aged woman, 75 years old, and was unable to
attend. She was the mother of the prisoner.
The second wife said that if she had time given her she
could produce the necessary evidence. She was proceeding
to make a statement, when Mr Selfe repeated he could not
hear her.

Daniel Marsham, 116 F, said he was in James-street,
Covent-garden, last night, when the second wife came up
and said she wanted a man taken into custody for bigamy.
Shortly afterwards the prisoner came out of a house in Hart-
street, and the second wife charged him with unlawfully
marrying her. She said that if time was allowed she could
prosecute, and she then produced two certificates.
The certificates were then handed to the magistrate. The
first related to the marriage of Henry Batley to Elizabeth
Inay, at South Hackney Church. on May 19, 1838, and the
second, of Richard Henry Batley with Priscilla Moffatt, in
Australia, on the 11th of July, 1810. _ _ .

Mr Selfe—Did the prisoner say anything when taken
into custody ?
Witness—He did not deny it.
Prisoner—l say nothing about it now—let the case be
proved against me.
Witness—He said he certainly had been living with an-
other woman, and, when the certificate of the first marriage
was produced, did not deny that she was his wife.
Mr Selfe—What evidence is there, even supposing you
identify him as the husband in the first marriage, that the
first wife was alive when he married the second ?
Second wife— She was seen alive six years after he mar-
ried me.
_ _ _

Mr Selfe said the case ought not to have been brought
before him, It must be taken before the magistrate of the
district where prisoner was apprehended.

MARLBOROUGH-STREE 2.

E3II3EZZLEMENT.—Francis Titchner, carman, in the
employ of Mr Edwin Chesney, wine and beer merchant, of
No, 19, Blenheim-street, Oxford-street, was charged before
Mr Yardley with embezzling the sum of £3 received on
account of his employer,

Mr Chesney, said that on the 12th inst. he gave the pri-
soner some goods, to the amount of £3, and a receipted bill
for the same, to deliver to a customer, named Allum, in
Craven-street, Strand. The prisoner delivered the goods,
received the money, and returned, but never handed the
money over as he should have done, and he had since ab-
sented himself from his employ.

Davidson, 301 A, said that in consequence of a commu-
nication from Mr Chesney, he apprehended the prisoner at
No. 25, Nassau-street, Middlesex Hospital, when he said
he knew nothing about the money, and that he had never
received it.

George 'Webb, clerk and traveller to Mr Allum, of
Craven-street, Strand, proved paying the prisoner the sum
of £3.

Mr Yardley committed the prisoner, who still denied re-
ceiving the money, for trial.
The prisoner asked to have some money found upon him
given up, but Mr Yardley refused the application, stating
that it evidently was part of the money for Mr Chesney.