The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-23 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1852.

the usual contents, and, as he did not know bow to
manage that kind of business, and he knew that
witness had been so employed formerly, he wished to
enter into an engagement with him for its general
superintendence, as he had every confidence in his in-
tegrity. Witness at first objected to give up the
business he was then engaged in, unless for a cer-
tainty, and the prisoner, after some bargaining be-
tween them, agreed to allow him a fixed salary of
3001. per annum for five years positive, and offered to
sign a legally drawn up instrument in those terms.
He also said that the whole of the law affairs would
be completed by the Ist of the following December,
when the whole of the property would be trans-
ferred to him, and suggested, as conferring a better
appearance upon each of them, that the witness
should take a much more respectable house than he
then held, which he would like somewhere in the
neighbourhood of Whitechapel, and promised if he did
so to lodge with him until the whole matter was set-
tled. Witness made inquiry about the legal firm the
prisoner had mentioned, and finding that they 'were
not only in existence but highly respectable al-o, he
agreed to his last proposition; and the agreement
having been drawn up between them and signed, he
took another house in Friendly-place, Whitehorse-
street, Stepney, to which the prisoner at once removed
all the goods he appeared to possess, consisting of a
chest of drawers, bedding, six chairs, and a few mi-
nor articles; shortly after which the prisoner ordered
home two large boxes, in which he urged the witness
to pack up all his tools, that he (the prisoner) might
send them down to "the works," to be in readiness
for immediate operations. Witness, however, would
not consent to this unless he went with them himself;
and the prisoner then asked him for a trifling advance
of money, to be repaid as soon as he came into his
own funds. This the witness assented to, and from
time to time, at short intervals, advanced him altoge-
ther, money and goods, to the amount of about 101.
When it bad reached this amount witness was surprised
one afternoon at finding the brokers in the prisoner's
rooms, from which they swept out what furniture
there was, and as soon as they had done so the
prisoner went out, and did not return, and, as his
absence continued for several days, he at length be-
came very uneasy and suspicious of having been duped,
and determined to make inquiry of the solicitors about
the prisoner's affairs, but, on calling upon those gen-
tlemen, they at once told him that he had been
defrauded, as they had not only not been engaged in
any such Chancery proceedings, but new nothing of
the prisoner whatever. He then kept up a sharp
look-out for the prisoner, but saw nothing more of
him until the day preceding, when be accidentally
met him in the street and gave him into custody. The
witness added, that what he had mentioned was not
the whole of the misfortunes he had sustained through
the prisoner's duplicity, as he had been actually
offered a permanent engagement of a similar character
at 2001. per annum, and foolishly refused it, as he
considered himself too strictly bound by the agree-
ment he had signed to the accused-to retreat from it.
When called upon for his defence, the prisoner
merely demurred to the amount of the goods and
money the prosecutor had charged him with, which,
he said, he did not think could come to so much, but
offered no refutation of the other allegations against
him ; and

Mr. HAMMILL, considering that the money had
been obtained from the prosecutor solely by means of
false pretences, ordered the prisoner to be committed
until that day week for the formal completion of the
evidence.