The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1864.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

MANSION-HOUSE,
EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COLLECTOR.—A. respectably-
dressed man, named William Capling, was charged with
embezzling various large sums of money, which he had
received in his capacity of town collector for the Messrs.
Defries, the celebrated chandelier manufacturers, of 147,
Houndeditch.

Mr John Hunt, general manager to the Messrs.
Defries, said the prisoner was a town collector of
accounts, and had beenia the employ of the firm for seven
or eight years. It was his duty to enter all accounts ho
received during the day iu a book the morning after ho had
received them, and then passed over the money to Mr
John Levy, the principal cashier to the Messrs. Defries.
He charged the prisoner with embezzling XlO Os 4d, which
he had received from Mr Snow, who was a customer of the
firm. This morning an officer was called in at the estab-
lishment at Hounsditch, and Mr Defries told him for the
length of time he had been in their employment.he expected
trustworthiness. He was asked about his accounts, and
eventually hs admitted embezzling various sums of money.
Ho was not prepared to say the amount of the prisoner's
deficiencies, but he knew it was over £lOO. The prisoner
when spoken to about the particular account of Mr Snow,
said ho had received the money and appropriated
it to his own use. He bad not the necessary
receipts with him on that occasion, but he should be in a
position, in the course of a few days, to clearly establish
the charge against the prisoner.
Detective officer Smart said he was called in to Messrs.
Defries' warehouse in Houndsditch, and was told to take
the prisoner into custody for embezzling several sums of
money. As he was conveying him to the station he
said —" It is a bad job, but it is all through. a
brother of mine. I has the money this morning
to settle the matter." On searching him at the station
house, seven £lO Bank of England notes and £3 10s. in coin
was found on his person.
The Lord Mayor remanded the prisoner for a week.
John Nicholls, another servant in the same firm, was
then placed at the bar, charged with a similar offence.
Mr. Coleman Deities, senior partner in the firm, said
they carried on a very extensive business at 147, Hounds-
ditcb, and in consequence they had to employ a large
number of servants. The prisoner was a traveller
for the firm in which capacity he would receive moneys
which it was his duty to pay over to Mr Hunt, the general
manager, or to Mr Levy, the chief cashier, the day after he
received it. In consequence of certain information he, this
morning, spoke to the prisoner and charged him with em-
bezzlement. He asked him to tell him the persons from
whom he had received money, when he gave the names
of three persons, viz., Mr Walker, of Dalston, from whom
be had received £6 6s. 2d.; Mr Roberts, of Kingsland,
£lO, and Mr Wheeler of Hackney £2, for none of which he
had accounted. Those were the only sums at present
known, but he had no doubt the defalcations were larger.
Mr. Hunt, the manager, said he knew nothing about the
money the prisoner was charged with embezzling. He had
not received the accounts of either of the customers men-
tioned by Mr Coleman Defries.

Alderman Lawrence asked if in this case the necessary
documents were in court to complete the case ?
hlr Defries said they were not; he should therefore have
to ask for a remand. The two cases were quite distinct.
The matter that had led to their discovery was the sending
in the quarterly accounts.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.

got one. They so frightened me that I could not sign my
name. I sat for more than three hours with the
females, and I sat there to wait for the men to
return. Dempsey took my umbrella and everything from
me. I afterwards went and had a glass of lemonade with
them.

Mr E. G. Garrard, of the Vauxhall Tavern, Kennington-
lane, said—The prosecutor is my barman. Last night two
men came to my house and brought a letter dii ected to me.
The two men are the male prisoners. The letter was ask-
ing for
r. oed
. to Thinking
eout,t although the prisoners gave a description of
th they might have watched the pro-
secutorhim, I
em have the money. Dempsey then
2fusl
pointed to the direction on the envelope, saying it was
Smith's but as I could not recognise it I would have
nothing to do with it. Beeho had said it was about a bill
of exchange, alluding to the letter. The prisoners then left
in a cab.

Mr Knox--It is a most extraordinary story. How long
has Sniith been with you?

Mr Gal rard—Some years ; and he is a very respectable
man, and was out for a holiday.
Di linox—The prisoners will be remanded.

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THAMES.

ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE —John Donovan, a reckless, ill-
favoured ruillm, one of those fellows called a " white-
washed Yankee," who has been a seaman on board Ame•
rican ships, was brought before Mr Paget, charged with
assaulting Mr James Grimmer, an elderly man, of No. 1,
Well-street, near the Sailors' Rome, in Whitechapel.
Yesterday evening the complainant was stooping over
an area in Well-street, and speaking to his daughter who
was in a kitchen below, when the prisoner came behind
him and seized him between the legs, turning him over and
putting him to considerable pain and inconvenience. The
complainant expostulated with him, and the prisoner
gave utterance to the most foul abuse, threats and execra-
tions. Mrs Elizabeth Jessop, a lady dwelling next doer,
expostulated with the prisoner and told him to go away.
He called her the most offensive names and provoked her
so much by his ribaldry and obscenity that she was induced
to strike him. A police-constable named Samuel Pallor,

153 H, came up and took him into custody. The prisoner
he would cut out the entrails of the old man and Mrs
j egavess op
w utterancehene to
ver a fearfullyhe
could blasphemous oath, and said
get at them. Fuller gave
the following account of the prisoner. He was
"kicked out of Liverpool" for his ruffianism and
indecency, and came to London. lie had been a complete
pest in ltatcliff-highway and vicinity for the last three
weeks. His left arm was bound up and he pretended to
have lost the use of it. He abused anybody who did not
give him money. He caught hold of a sailor a few days
ago and swore he would cut his eyes out if he did not give
him money. He knocked down an unfortunate women one
day. He had gone into public houses and extorted money.
Ho was turned out of two houses of public entertainment
yesterday. He gave his address, Orchard-street, West-
minster,

The prisoner, in defence, said that he came home in the
Plymouth Rock three weeks ago. She was an American
packet ship. He was drunk yesterday.

Mr Paget said the prisoner should be examined by a
surgeon, and he remanded th 2 prisoner till Monday next.

The Man in the Carpet Bag,

Supposed explanation of the Waterloo-bridge
mystery, as given by a correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph, signing himself " George Irwin, Ser-
pentine-avenue, Dublin, August 9, 1864."
While paseing time has almost caused the Waterloo-

bridge mystery to be forgotten, even on the immediate scene
of its occurrence, information has gradually been collected
at a place distant from it by thousands of miles. Through
that extraordinary freemasonry existing among criminals
who from time to time recruit our convict class—men bound
together by the war of society against them, and leagued
in fidelity to each other by an acquaintance with or partici-
pation in each ether's crimes—there can be no doubt there
were those at the time in London who, if not privy to that
murder in its inception, very soon after the commission of
the crime knew the particulars of it, and could, if they
would, have solved the mystery.
Without further preface, I will quote an extract from a
letter received by B—, a gentleman well known in this
city from his brother, at present in Tasmania, and holding
there a highly respectable social position, and her Majesty's
Commission of the Peace, referring to a Mr B—, the sub-
ject of the tragedy which it is believed has been enacted.
He writes :

" I feel convinced that his (R='s) was the body found in
the carpet-bag under Waterloo-bridge. From what I have
heard from a person lately come out, it appears R— was
lodging with a Jew named W—, a returned convict, close
to Waterloo-bridge at the time that he had about £1,400
worth cf Tasmanian debentures, which for some time he had
been endeavouring to sell; that he sold them to a re-
spectable Jew named N—; that he received the money,
and the same day went home to his lodgings, and is sup-
posed to have had his money with him, from which hour
he has never been seen or heard of ; and when Mr. S—, a
friend of his, went to his lodgings a few days after, he
could get no tidings whatever of R—, and the wretch %V—
-had fled no one knew where. I have no doubt he knew
R— had the money, then murdered him, cut him up, put
portions of the body (the head never was found) into the
carpet bag, and throw it into the river, Not a paper, not
a vestige of anything belonging to him has since turned
up, and I have no more doubt that that was his fate than
that lam writing this. We have ascertained that the man
W— is dead. . . Mrs. R— is still very unsettled. I
told her of my suspicions, but still she hopes on. She says
she would know the carpet-bag he took with him, No
doubt the police have got it. Would it be possible to ob..
tain it, and any other articles connected with it, and have
them sent out here for her to see them ?"
A very few words in further explanation will be sufficient.
B—, above referred to, the recipient of the communication
from Tasmania, and at present in Dublin, was himself a
resident in Tasmania some years ago, and while there met
R—, and knew him intimately; ho was then a person of
some property, and holding a respectable position in life.
H— came to Ireland some time previous to the Waterloo
Bridge event,
and soon after calledoa B—, who at the time
be from home, and did not see him, nor after-
wards the stay in Dublin did they chance to meet;
bhnatidpduring
Rge—enee'sena to
rtrival in Dublin from Tasmania at that time,
however, is confirmed from his having called on
others hero as well as B—. From Dublin It—
thteonceßhelefastWhere he had business to
transact;proceeded to London, where he was
alsore cken3oewd known to have arrived safely, and was called on there
by a Mr. S— (to whom, it appears, he was also 'in some
way known), a few days after the finding of the carpet-bag
with the remains at Waterloo -bridge, with the result stated
in the Tasmania letter.
R— was somewhat eccentric, and though possessed of
considerable means, his habits were frugal and saving, if
convictlt is
—by no means impossible he may have
when that man was the denizen of
aknnoptoePwneallullithrei°u. settlement; perhaps he looked upon him as a " re-
formed criminal," and as more to be encouraged and relied
upon than one who has all along led an honest life. It —was
known to very few in London. lam not aware, indeed, that
he was known to anyone there except Mr S—, who called
upon him. His stay there was to be brief. In that
crowded hive it may have seemed immaterial to him where
he stopped for the time, provided his expenses were small.
In
knew him that ho lodged with this returned convict
close to Waterloo-bridge at the time referred to, and has
n of
obfeeTilashmeaarndia°n debentures,f—lie' having alike disap-
any case, it has been ascertained by those in Tasmania
who
together with the proceeds
evheirin
s salec
peared—neithersince been
have the mutilated fragments of the human
body found in the carpet-bag been ever since accounted for
in any way the least satisfactory or credible. That it was
the means adopted by some anatornist to get rid of human
remains upon which he had been practising—the suggestion
accepted at the time when the police failed to make any dis-
covery—was improbable, being so
different
done in such cases, but
was altogether inconsistent with the mangled—and notus
is
anatomised—appearance which the remains presented.
from ro m not
what o
customarily exceedingly
Had the information now possessed been at hand—had S
Mr
to lodge, his disappearance at that parti-
cular time might have suggested some inquiry; but an
idea that such was his fate could not for a moment have
entered S —'s mind, otherwise he would have acted upon it.
: d
--
gone known the description of person with whom
It h
business and return, and moving from
Dublin to Belfast, and from Belfast to London, the natural
finding him at his lodgings, was, that he
inference, on not
London,
Itio—trcaonmsaiontg over to this country, not to remain, but merely
had finished his business in and
Even his known
gone elsewhere;
lated to make his disappearance less
remarkable.
othooaethhtreichiatyd perhaps
loreturned to Tasmania,

Wa.terlco-bridge ? Do they know
—Titt;etl; London police information whether a returned
convict (a Jew, named W—) was,
.immediately preceding
tohneir matured cape-
any unwelcome supervi-
Ystaff, at the tune of the
abrleetutorntr,able
hisat ht ewehsvuaetbnsttimqr euesehindoti nl
egcfactrlteoh:
rae that local o
Possibly ti y a n and i are they
their
-- may not fall within
their province to look after such charac;ers. liming gra-
d regardeduata din
aas penalfully e settlement,ntitl
ed to
et:teemypni
it.
fayy ,
occurrence,sr lioennc. o uDpiodn
dshoi
0::
Londoneotvy,rutnhcadhteetceakcetgdi
gentlemen
nab t l e m e n
had been lodging
with that convict and that he suddenly and unaccountably
disappeared ? Did they discover that that gentleman had
previously sold Tasmanian debentures to a large amount to
n
and through what
channels they or any of them subsequently passed ? DlU-
culties apparently greater than any that such an inquiry
another
h i
n e r
Jew,what an and
moneysbe e
thosenpaid were e for
r e paidthem for,?Could they ascer-
tain
presents have been surmounted where skill has accompanied
a desire to arrive at the truth. lem prepared to give the
names of all the parti?s represented by initials in this com-
munication, to any person competent or having authority
to investigate the matter further.

SIGNOR TAMBENLIK, who recently left London
for Madrid, is said to be engaged to sing there for 20 nights
at £lOO a night. Mille. Lagru has au engagement kr the
winter season at the San Carlo in Naples.

The Late Private Cooper,

The following correspondence has taken place
relative to the funeral of the late Private Cooper,
of the Coldstream Guards, who was accidentally
shot on the 21st ult., during the late Prize Meeting
of the National Rifle Association on Wimbledon-
common, where he expired on Tuesday, at six
o'clock, On Friday night last, up to which time
the wounded man had been progressing favourably,
congestion of the lungs supervened, and the symp-
toms increasing in intensity, he finally sank with-
Gut apparent pain :

Wimbledon, Aug. 9, IS6 t.

Sir,—ln the absence of the Rev. Mr Haygirth, the in-
cumbent of Wimbledon, it is my duty to communicate with
you respecting the funeral of Cooper, the wounded guards-
man, who died here this morning. It is the desire of his
wife that he should bo interred in our parish churchyard.
Many of the inhabitants of Wimbledon and of the adjoin-
ing parish of Putney would, I am incredibly informed,
avail themselves of this melancholy opportunity to tes-
tify their respect for Cooper, and for the service in
which he was engaged. As I visited Cooper daily
during his illness, I may be permitted to say, and you
will be happy to hear that he was apparently well
prepared for entering another and a better world
than this. Yesterday, although very weak, he fer-
vently joined in the prayers offered up for him and his, and
gave satisfactory indication of a man at peace with God and
the world.—l have the honour, Sco.,

T. HANLY BALL, Curate and Lecturer of St,
Mary's, Wimbledon,
To the Commanding Officer, Coldstream Guards.

Wellington Barracks, London, Ang. 9,18 G

Rev. Sir,—ln reply to your letter of this day's date, just
come to hand, I beg to inform you that the commanding
officer has made arrangements for the 'burial of the late
Private Cooper at Brompton Cemetery, the appointed place
of interment for the men of the Brigade of Guards dying
in the London district. I beg to express to you my best
thanks for the interest you have shown, and for the care
with which you have attended Cooper throughout his ill.

ness, and to mention how great a satisfaction it was to hear
of the preparation of mind in which he appeared to be be-
fore death. I must also take this opportunity of acknow-
ledging, with all sincerity, the testimony of your
parishioners to the respect enter ai ned by them for Cooper,
and with repeated thanks for all the care and attention
shown by yourself end the inhabitants of Wimbledon to-
wards the poor sufferer, I have the honour, &c.,
EDWARD H. LEGGE,
Captain and Adjutant Coldstream Guards.
To the Rev. T. Hanly B ill, St. Mary's, Wimbledon.