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

ME SUN, LONIJON, 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 beenin the employ of the firm for seven
or eight years. It was his duty to enter all accounts he
received during the day in a book the morning after he 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 £lO 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 Hounaditch, 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 he admitted embezzling various sums of money.
He 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 he had received the money and appropriated
it to his own use. He bad not the necessary
receipts with him on that occarion, 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 Houndsditoh, 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 had the money this morning
to settle the matter." On searching him at the station
house, seven 110 Bank of England notes and £3 108. 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

hen placed at the bar, charged with a similar offence.

Mr. Coleman Defries, senior partner in the firm, said
they carried on a very extensive business at 147, Hounds-
ditch, 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 ?
Mr Defries said they were not; he should therefore have
to ask for a remand. The two cases were quito 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 directed to me.
The two men are the male prisoners. The letter was ask-
ing for £2O. Thinking they might have watched the pro-
secutor out, although the prisoners gave a description of
him, I refused to let them have the money. Dempsey then
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 Smith been wilh you?

Mr Garrard—Some years ; and he is a very respectable
man, and was out for a holiday.
Air Knox—The prisoners will be remanded.

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THAMES.

ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE.—John Donovan, a reckless, ill-
favoured ruffian, 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 Tames Grimmer, an elderly man, of No. 1,
Well-street, near the Sailors' Home, 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 Fuller,
153 H, came up and took Moe into custody. The prisoner
gave utterance to a fearfuly blasphemous oath, and said
he would cut out the entrails of the old man and Mrs
Jessop whenever he could 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. He had been a complete
pest in Ratcliff-highway and vicinity for the last three
weeks. His left arm was bound up and ho 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 woman one
day. He had gone into public houses and extorted money.
He 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 the 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.
pentinesavenue, 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
incgt class—men bound
at a place distant from it by thousands of marailoens.g
criminalst
them, and leagued
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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-10 was the body found in
the carpet-bag under Waterloo-bridge. from what I have

heard from a person lately come out, it awears R— was
lodging with a Jew named W—, a returned c6.uvict, close
to Waterloo-bridge at the time that he had about £1,400
worth cf Tasmanian debentures, which for some time hb 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
ho 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 W—
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 threw it into the river. Not a paper, not
a vestige of anything belonging to him has since turned
up, and I have nu more doubt that that was his fate than
that lam writing this. We have ascertained that the man
W— is dead. . . Mrs. 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; he was then a person of
some property, and holding a respectable position in life.
R— came to Ireland some time previous to the Waterloo
Bridge event, and soon after called on B—, who at the time
happened to be from home, and did aot see him, nor after-
wards during the stay in Dublin did they chance to meet;
but R—'s arrival in Dublin from Tasmania at that time,
however, is confirmed from his having called on
others here as well as B—. From Dublin R.—
procceied to Belfast, where ha had business to
transact; thence he proceeded to London, where he was
also 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.

....
it was somewhat eccentric, and though possessed of
considerable means, his habits were frugal and saving, if
not penurious.
the riocnosn.
vi Itot
Means impossible he may have
ow
wiel 12-y no
oen that man was the denizen of
a penal settlement; perhaps he looked upon him as a " re-
fox med criminal," and as more to be encouraged and relied
upon than one who has all along led an honest life. R— was
known to very few in London. I nut not aware, indeed, that
known
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 rear have seemed immaterial to bim where
he stopped for the time, provided his expenses were small.
In any case, it has been ascertained by those in Tasmania
who knew bin' that he lodged wilt this returned convict
close to Waterloo-bridge at the time :eferred to, and has
' been heard of—he,
never since to6ther w;th the proceeds
of his sale of Tasmanian debentures, having alike disap-
peared—neither have the mutilated fragments of rho' human
body found in the carpet-bag been ever since accounted for
in any way the least satisfactory Or credible. That it w,
the means adopted by some anatomist 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 not only exceedingly improbable, being so
different from what is customarily done in such cases, but
was altogether inconsistent with tia,
Mangled—and not
anatomised—appearance which the remains presented.
Had the information now Possessed been at hand—had
Mr 8-- known the description of person
with
whom
It— had gone to lodge, his disappearance at that parti-
cular time might have suggested Born_
o inquiry ; but an
idea that such was his fate could not for a moment have
entered S —'s mind, otherwise he would have aoted upon it.
R— coming over to this country, not to remain, but merely
to transact some business and return, and moving from
Dublin to Belfast, sad from Belfast to London, the natural
inference, on not finding him at his lodgings was, that he
had finished his business in London, and gone elsewhere;
that he had perhaps returned to Tasmania.
Even his known
eccentricity was calculated to make his disappearance leer
remarkable.
Have the London police information whether a returned
convict (a Jew, named W—) was, immediately preceding
the event, residing close to Waterloo-bridge ? Do they know
at what time he left that locality, and are they able to trace
his subsequent career ? Possibly it may not tall
within
their province to look after such characters. Having gra-
duated in a penal settlement, they mays on their return, be
regarded as fully entitled to exemplify their matured expe-
rience upon society, unchecked by any unwelcome supervi
sion. Did the London detective staff, at the time of the
occurrence, discover that a gentleman 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
another Jew, and been paid for them? Could they ascer-
tain in what moneys those were paid for, and through what
channels they or any of them subsequently passed ? Diffi •
culiies apparently greater than any that such an inquiry
presents have been surmounted where skill has accompanied
a desire to arrive at the truth. lem prepared to give the
names of all the parties represented by initials in this com-
munication, to any person competent or having authority
to investigate the matter further.

SIGNOR TAMBEELIK, who recently left London
for Madrid, is said to be engaged to sing there for 20 nights
at .-ClOO a night, Mdlle,:Logru has an 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-
out apparent pain :

Wimbledon, Aug. 9, IS6

Sir,—ln the absence of the Rev. Mr llaygarth, the in-
cumbent of Wimbledon, it is my duty to communicate with
you respecting the funeral of Cccper, the wounded guards-
man, who died here this morning. It is the desire of his
wife that he should be interred in our parish churchyard.
Many of the inhabitants of Wimbledon and of the adjoin-
ing parish of Putney would, I ant 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, &c.,
T. HANLY BALL, Curate and Lecturer of St.
Mary's, Wimbledon.
To the Commanding Officer, Coldstream Guards.

Wellington Barracks, London, Aug. 9, 1864

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 and the inhabitants of Wimbledon to-
wards the poor sufferer, I have the honour, &c.,
EDWARD H. LEG GE,
Captain and Adjutant Coldstream Guards.
To the Rev. T. Hanly Ball, St. Mary's,Wimbledon.