The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-04 00:00:00

charged with obtaining portraits and miniatures of
the community at large, and dishonestly disposing of
them, underwent another examination before Mr.
Arnold.
The former charges against the prisoner having
failed, through the defective state of the law with re-
spect to such offences, the business to-day commenced
with a continuation of the case of Mr. J. E. Mayall,
the American daguerreotype artist, 433, West Strand,
of Mr.
who charged the prisoner with " disposing"
N. M. Power, my , in his usual unceremonious
manner. The prisoner had applied to Mr. Mayall, as
an artist of celebrity, to take sitters for his " national
work," with an understanding that they should be
paid for in a certain time, but Mr. Mayall finding
that he did not keep faith with him, directed that the
clerks should not let him have any more portraits
without the money. Prisoner obtained the likeness
of Mr. Power by representing that he would return it
in a short time or pay for it, and the letter containing
that promise concluded with the following disap-
pointment of the prisoner's hopes :
Mr. Collins tried for the Nepsulese Ambassador,
but was just too late when he arrived from the north,
as his excellency sat elsewhere."
The picture was obtained from
Mr. Mayall in 1848,
and pawned, as he believed, on the same day.
Mr. Binns requested permission of the magistrate
to cross-examine Mr. Mayall, and
did so with a view
of showing that a bill had been made out and sent to
prisoner for the portrait in question, but failed in
doing so, Mr. Mayall declaring that such was not the
case, and adding that although he had taken many
portraits prisoner had not paid for one of them.
Mr. William Smith, 3nu., pawnbroker, Clark's-
either on the 20 or 25th of June,
1848, was pawned
place, Islington, produced the likeness in question,
1848, for 2/. 23. He could trace the exact date of
and
four others pawned, but not precisely of this
ri
ther,
p
one,
sone
pledges having
been long out, sent to auction,
turned unsold.
re- 1
They were pawned by
the
who went by the name of Coleman.
Sergeant Smith, of the detective police, produced
the pawnbroker's ticket of the pledge, which he took
from the prisoner. It was indorsed "Power, M.P.,
Mayor of Dublin, by Mayall," in, (as witness believed)
*rained the officer, who proved
primsorn.eßesinhnasnedrwasrsi-tienxga
that he had seen prisoner write,
from him, and knew handwriting
received letters
his handwng well. The
officer let out that his former business- with the pri-
soner was on the subject of a lady's picture.
Mr. ARNOLD asked if there was any other case
ready against the prisoner ?
Mr. Cumming,
; an inspector
who oi3f tehnegaßgeddivaitsion,
called Mra.
Eiz Barber,M.
1
Qauclet's• ~ •
egent-street. Prisoner went there in
1550, represented himself 83 an artist, and wanted
.some patterns of eminent naval officers, and inquired if
he could get gentlemen to sit what per centage would
be allow,A—:-the likenesses, of course, being for his
work. He subsequently borrowed, about April or
May, four portraits of ladies to show as specimens,
as he wanted some ladies to sit, but never returned
them.

Smith produced the ticket of the ladies, who bad
been in safe keeping at Mr. Wood's, a pawnbroker.
They were pawned on the 224 of May, 1851.
A person who had been in Mr. Wood's employ-
ment W 23 called, but stated that he did not take in
the pledge.
Cumming said that Mr. Wood was out of
town, but it would probably be deemed necessary to
further remand the case, as Lord Sandys' portrait
had been found pawned, and it was a mystery how it
had been obtained. His Lordship had expressed his
determination to come forward and prosecute the
prisoner, in whose possession the duplicate had been

found.
On an examination of the ticket of the " four
ladies," the following endorsement was found in
the prisoner's hand-writing " Specimens of
Claudees."

N... ARNOLD said he should remand the prisoner
till Friday.
Mr. Binas wished to know whether he had came
to any determination with respect to the cages he bad
heard ?

Mr. Almon]) said be should send Mr. Mayan's case
for trial as a larceny, and if in the second case it was
satisfactorily shown that he obtained and pawned in
May, that also. He, of course, could not say what
would be done in the other case mentioned by the
police.
Prisoner was then remanded.