The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-20 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

A young man, named Cartwright, was yesterday
charged before Mr. MiNsuum with having feloni-
ously embezzled bank notes and Rh, umountilig to
2251., being money which came into his possession
us a sorter of letters in the General Post-office.

Mr. William Stanfield was in the employment of
Mews. Turner and Yeomans, merchants of Shef-
field, for whom he acted as clerk and traveller. On
the 19th of October last, he had occasion to remit
five bills of exchange amounting to 175/., and ten
Bank of England notes, for 51• each, to his em•
ployers et Sheffield. %Witness sealed up the packet,
and put it into the post•office at Chert-ey, with a
request that an ucknosrledgment might be forwarded
to him at Aylesbury, to which place he was then
proceeding. The packet should have reached Shef-
field on the 21st of October, but witness received
no enowtr from his employers until the 27th, when
a letter reached him at Welligborough, stating that
the packet had not come to hand.
Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the General Postsoffice,
hero produced ten ..5/. Bank of England notes which
had been paid into that establishment on the 20th
tif October, and the teitncts immediately identified
them as the same mites which he had enclosed and
forwarded to his employers.
Mr. Charles James Beetson was a clerk in the
Bank of England. On the 20th of October laSt
young man, whom witness believed to be the pri.
soner, presented to him at the Bank of England ten
54 notes to be changed. Witness told him to put
his mime and address on the back of the notes, and
the prisoner 'stepped to the hall, and returned with
the notes, endorsed " Edward Winston, Wilton-
terrace." Witness asked hint where Wilton-terrace
was, and. the prisoner replied it was at Knights.
bridge, end witness wrote the word on the Bank-
' note now produced, numbered 11,112. Witness
then paid the prisoner 50 sovereigns, and witness
remarked at the time that the prisoner picked them
up without coenting them, and on going out, he
turned round end looked at witness in a manner
that created some suspicion, but witness did not
communicate such suspicion to the clerk who sat
next to him.

Mr. MlNsttuLt, asked the witness if he was quite
positive that the prisoner was the person for whom
he changed the notes ?—The witness believed him
to be the man, but could not swear more positively
to him. Two of the Bank-notes now produced,
witness would swear to es pert of those which he
bad changed on the day in question. 'Witness did
not see the► prisoner after, until he was sent for a
reAV dvm ago to the Post•oldice, and in an apartment
belonging to Mr. Stowe, witness saw and recognized
the prisoner us the person who had prtseuted the
notes for payment.

Mr. Wilkins, a professional gentleman on behalf
of the prisoner, put several questions to the last wit-
ness EIS to his po,itive belief that the prisoner was

the party for whom he el►nngerl the notes. The
witness admitted that the interview between him-
elf and the piiscner did not last bmger than two
minutes, and that he was in the habit. of teeing be-
tween 300 and 400 persons daily at the Bank. He
was sent for to the Pnst•oflice, in order to see if he
could identify the prisoner; and the moment he en-
tered the roomolthough different persons had pressed
in and out, he said he believed he w►►s the man.
Mr. Peacock here said it vas but fair to state,
that as soon as the prisoner entered the room a re-
mark Was made, " This is not eleven o'clock," that
being the hour mentioned to the witness when he
would see the prisoner.
On the part of the prisoner, Mrs. Mary Grabham
was called forward, who stated that she lived in
Crown-court, Threadneedle-street. The prisoner
lodged at her house from the Bth of October to the
12th of November, and during the whole of that
time he dined from home but once, and that was on
Monday the 18th of October. He always went
out at about a quarter to six in the morning, and
returned to breakfast about nine, when he invariably
went up to his Ipttl room, and remained there until
about four o'clock, at which hour he usually dined.
On the 20th of October she was quite sure that
the prisoner was at home from nine until four
o'clock. Had he left home in the interval, she must
have heard him go out, as there was u bell to a door
ou the landing near his bed-room, which she must
have heard ►ing had he left his apartment before his
usual hour.
r. MINSAULL asked Mr. Peacock if he meant
to summon the witnesses from Sheffield to prove
that the letter, enclosing the remittance, had not
reached that place. Mr. Peacock at present did
not cons'der it necessary to do so, The fact of the
notes having been presented et the Bank the day
after they were put into the post-office at Chertsey
was sufficient to establish that fact,
Fhe prisoner was then with the consent of his
legal adviser, fully committed for trial upon the
above evidence, and the witnesses were bound over
to prosecute.